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Industry Issues 11-07-2024
From the CEO I no longer have a spare bedroom. About 18 months ago, we ‘downsized’ from a four bedroom property in one of those ‘urban sprawl’ suburbs to a three bedroom property…
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Industry Issues 04-07-2024
From the CEO This week, UDIA WA welcomed the State Government announcement regarding 10,000 skilled migration places that focus on the construction sector, as a step in the right direction in addressing the…
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Industry Issues 27-06-2024
From the CEO A lot can happen in 930 days. Even more in 1,154 days. Except if you are certain local councils it seems. Despite 300 pages of additional information and over 50…
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Industry Issues 20-06-2024
From the CEO ‘Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time the quo has lost its status’. Back in 1969, Laurence J. Peter wrote about The Peter Principle – a concept he…
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Industry Issues 13-06-2024
From the CEO I feel like Steven Bradbury at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Behind the pace of his competitors in the short track 1000 metre final in speed skating, at the final corner…
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Industry Issues 06-06-2024
From the CEO If not there, then where? If not now, then when? These were the questions I posed to ABC Radio’s Nadia Mitsopoulos this morning in response to her query around the…
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Industry Issues 30-05-2024
From the CEO Kaya, Now More Than Ever, is the theme for National Reconciliation Week. It is a call to action for all of us to actively continue to advocate for justice and…
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UDIA’s all new Housing Index launched
UDIA has proudly launched our UDIA Housing Index (UHI) nationally. This significant research project was more than 12 months in the making and has been designed to provide a quarterly ‘health check’ on…
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Industry Issues 23-05-2024
From the CEO It is Budget Estimates week in State Parliament and time to put our Ministers and senior public servants under the grill and find out exactly how, when and where agencies…
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Industry Issues 16-05-2024
From the CEO Have you ever wondered what would happen if you applied the accelerator and the brakes at the same time? We may be about to find out. As the critique of…
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UDIA WA WRAPS UP THE 2024-25 STATE BUDGET
EVERYTHING OUR MEMBERS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TODAY’S BUDGET ANNOUNCEMENTS UDIA WA CEO Tanya Steinbeck and Executive Director of Strategy & Policy Sarah Macaulay attended the State Budget Lockup this morning to get…
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Industry Issues 09-05-2024
From the CEO “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” This Charles Dickens quote from The…