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NSW Government has power to lock down entire unit blocks with one positive case

2021-09-30T15:09:45+10:00

7 September 2021 Apartment residents could be hit by the most draconian COVID-19 laws ever produced by the NSW Government, which is able to lock down entire unit blocks when just one person tests positive to the virus.  The police also now have new powers to patrol buildings, quiz everyone living in – and visiting – apartments for their names and phone numbers, and order them all to take COVID tests. [...]

NSW Government has power to lock down entire unit blocks with one positive case2021-09-30T15:09:45+10:00

NSW is almost certainly on the precipice of a massive deterioration

2021-08-27T14:04:33+10:00

10 AUGUST 2021 OPINION As an experienced respiratory physician at a major western Sydney hospital, I am gravely concerned about the NSW government’s ineffective response to the Delta outbreak. As it has overseas, the pandemic is disproportionately affecting low-income migrant populations with insecure jobs. NSW is almost certainly on the precipice of a massive deterioration. Contact tracers are overwhelmed, with reporting of infection hot spots lagging by days. The whole strategy [...]

NSW is almost certainly on the precipice of a massive deterioration2021-08-27T14:04:33+10:00

First Fifty Developers To Be Risk Rated Using New Tool

2022-08-29T10:41:56+10:00

OCN MEDIA RELEASE:  28 JULY 2021 Executive Officer at Owners Corporation Network, Karen Stiles said the tool will take the guesswork out of buying an apartment in NSW. "The last thing prospective owners need is to spend their life savings buying into a problematic building, but in the past consumers have had to rely on the developer's word that the property is a safe and sound investment," Ms Stiles said. "This tool [...]

First Fifty Developers To Be Risk Rated Using New Tool2022-08-29T10:41:56+10:00

New iCIRT tool will rate home builders and developers

2021-07-29T18:56:33+10:00

29 JULY 2021 Home builders will get a rating of one to five stars based on how shonky their work is, in a move aimed at restoring confidence in Sydney’s new builds and leaving dodgy developers “nowhere to hide”. Minister for Better Regulation Kevin Anderson said the new ratings system would end the days of people moving into defective apartments. Owners Corporation Network executive officer Karen Stiles said the move would [...]

New iCIRT tool will rate home builders and developers2021-07-29T18:56:33+10:00

Licensing of Conveyancers

2021-07-29T18:38:14+10:00

21 JULY 2021 OCN made a short submission calling for the same standard of conduct to apply to Conveyancers as applies to Lawyers.  The current regulatory framework lacks the rigour to ensure appropriate protections for consumers. > Download PDF

Licensing of Conveyancers2021-07-29T18:38:14+10:00

Combustible cladding could become ACT’s ‘second Mr Fluffy’ without full audit

2021-09-30T18:24:08+10:00

21 July 2021 The ACT Government has been warned that unsafe cladding could become the Territory’s “second Mr Fluffy” if a full audit is not carried out and more support is not offered for rectification works. President of the Owners Corporation Network, Gary Petherbridge, has raised concerns about the government’s duty of care to around 90 residential apartment buildings which may have combustible cladding, describing government offers of concessional loans as [...]

Combustible cladding could become ACT’s ‘second Mr Fluffy’ without full audit2021-09-30T18:24:08+10:00

Minister for Better Regulation & Innovation – COVID-19 Strata Support Required

2021-07-20T10:34:09+10:00

16 JULY 2021 OCN wrote to the NSW Minister for Better Regulation, Kevin Anderson, requesting urgent support for strata schemes to avoid the spread of COVID-19.  The new Delta variant is highly transmissable, and schemes urgently need guidance to assist in the regulation of their common property. >Download PDF

Minister for Better Regulation & Innovation – COVID-19 Strata Support Required2021-07-20T10:34:09+10:00

Construction watchdog: Body corporates are not reporting known defects

2021-10-01T15:35:07+10:00

3 July 2021 The NSW construction watchdog has major concerns that body corporates are underreporting serious defects in high-rise apartment buildings to government officials charged with cleaning up the construction industry and restoring public confidence. A survey of more than 500 buildings in NSW built in the past six years found that 36 per cent had serious defects. Of those with defects, just 17 per cent of the buildings had already [...]

Construction watchdog: Body corporates are not reporting known defects2021-10-01T15:35:07+10:00

Rubber Hits the Road with new NSW EV Policies

2022-04-10T23:22:27+10:00

OCN MEDIA RELEASE:   21 June 2021 Australia may currently have fewer electric vehicles on the road than places like Europe, but this is likely to change quickly with policies like the NSW Government’s recently announced $490 Million Electric Vehicle Support package. The measures have been welcomed by peak strata owners body, Owners Corporation Network (OCN). “We congratulate the NSW Government on now having the nation’s most ambitious EV policies,” said Fred [...]

Rubber Hits the Road with new NSW EV Policies2022-04-10T23:22:27+10:00
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