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Victoria: A shambolic state of strata chaos

  • 01/12/2022
  • Author Jimmy-T

How bad are things in Victorian strata? As you will read in this article, the removal of flammable cladding is revealing building structures that are rotting from the inside out.…

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    High price of safety – services rip-off alleged

    • 06/08/2020
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Legendary movie director Alfred Hitchcock is reputed to have said: “I never said actors were cattle, I said they should be treated like cattle.’ Sometimes you get the feeling that…

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      Queensland caretaker rip-off and repeat

      • 11/05/2018
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      Queensland was one of the first states in Australia to fully embrace strata living and it has, in the past, led the way on many innovations, like secret voting, limits…

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