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Sydney high-risk mega-block secretly locked down

  • 16/09/2021
  • Author Jimmy-T

NSW Health’s rush to push through new Public Health Orders for “high-risk” high-rises may have been motivated by an out-of-control spread of the Covid-19 virus in one of the city…

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    Lockdown renos – it’s worse than we thought

    • 31/08/2021
    • Author Jimmy-T

    The impact on people forced to stay in their apartments while building work goes on around them could be a lot more severe than originally thought. If the apartments undergoing…

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      Virus rages unchecked – and so does anger at renos

      • 19/08/2021
      • Author Jimmy-T

      “Just stay home … don’t go out … work from home if you possibly can,” say the Premier, the Health Minister and anybody else tasked with enforcing our lockdown. And…

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        NSW Health nudges the needle on reno rules

        • 12/08/2021
        • Author Jimmy-T

        Health NSW has acknowledged (but only just) that strata residents deserve a bit more protection from noise and potential covid-19 transmission, in its latest Covid-19 advisory. Nudging the needle on…

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          Confusion reigns over blockdown renovations

          • 03/08/2021
          • Author Jimmy-T

          NSW Health and Fair Trading seem to be struggling to keep up with each other over whether or not renovations are allowed in apartment blocks. According to a Health spokesman…

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            Podcast: Lockdown PHO a strata dog’s breakfast

            • 03/08/2021
            • Author Jimmy-T

            We had a new PHO out last week – that’s a Public Health Order, not a Vietnamese noodle soup – and as we discuss in the pod, it’s more of…

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              JimmyT’s covid comfort food kitchen: Cullen Skink

              • 27/07/2021
              • Author Jimmy-T

              Remember when we were first locked down last year – everybody was baking cheese scones and their own sourdough? Judging by the lack of crusty bread pictures in my various…

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                Forum: Trapped in lockdown renovation Hell

                • 13/07/2021
                • Author Jimmy-T

                Regular readers of Flat Chat may remember how last year we wrote about a Melbourne couple who were enduring the living Hell of a major renovation taking place in an…

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                  Block party planning and the vax of the matter

                  • 22/12/2020
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  There’s an old saying: “if you want to make God laugh, tell him you have a plan.” When this column appeared in the Australian Financial Review last week, it opened…

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                    Podcast: Email privacy & Afternoons radio with JV

                    • 08/09/2020
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    This week’s podcast takes a look at an area of strata life where strata managers could be breaking the law … because apartment-owning clients want them to. We’re talking about…

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                      Wins for Vic residents as lockdown renos halted

                      • 08/09/2020
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      There have been two pieces of very rare good news for Victorian strata owners and residents, in the past week. The state government has extended the defect claims period for…

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                        Strata managers warn of covid complacency

                        • 13/07/2020
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        Apartment residents need to stay vigilant if they don’t want to see high-rise lockdowns of the type that recently  shut down nine unit blocks in Victoria, say strata managers. “We’re…

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