
3 February 2017
IPA: Construction Costs In Melbourne Sky High
Construction and labour costs in Melbourne are among the highest in the world, second only to places like New York, according to a new research paper The Impact of the prohibitive cost of building in Victoria by the free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Author of the research paper, IPA Adjunct Fellow Gideon Rozner said “Construction costs

3 February 2017
The Impact of the Prohibitive Cost of Building in Victoria
On Wednesday 30 November 2016, the Australian Senate passed the Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Bill. The main object of the Bill is to: “…provide an improved workplace relations framework for building work to ensure that building work is carried out fairly, efficiently and productively, for the benefit of all building industry participants and for the benefit of the