There's no doubt we should take note and learn lessons from the London tragedy as its narrative is confronting and tears at the fabric of our being to the point where it cannot be ignored. We've endured multiple departures of employees including senior employees and CEOs in the VBA in its brief history that has seen all our efforts for reform being wasted again and again.
Our Planning Minister, Richard Wynne, who has carriage of the direction of our sector, is obviously not interested in the sector concerns which have seen the people's perception of our industry decreased to that of a third planet authority with home indemnity insurance. And at this time, no amount of advertising like the building confidence effort will arrest the slide. Industry has found that the Andrews government filled with Spin and tokenism with minimum substance in regards to how the building sector is handled, and what it provides to people working in it and those who use its services. The vast majority of builders who work in our industry accept the status quo for a situation that cannot be changed no matter how much they may like it to. They believe the only path for change could be through the Master Builders (MBA) or the Housing Industry (HIA). But both institutions' major income flows are though the present arrangements of builders warranty insurance (BWI) and they ensure any disgruntled builder conforms through their capacity to suppress dissent through the threat of insurance eligibility withdrawal. Without insurance, those contractors will not be able to operate in the market, so the institutions can control dissent throughout the ability to choose who'll work and at what level. The uninitiated consumers that use our solutions (and the majority of them only ever build one house or one renovation in a life, so they don't have any real comprehension of how the industry functions) frequently find themselves entering into a contract and owner builder insurance without due diligence because they think they have government mandated guarantee insurance which will protect them if something goes wrong. When something goes wrong, both builders and consumers enter into the nightmare of their lives with the only way to solve a building dispute being to hire attorneys and visit VCAT. This procedure eliminates logic and fair play and both parties need to endure years of hell and be financially ruined without a logical result for either. So why do we have the problem of failure on this many levels? Whether it be a simple renovation or a complicated build of a high-rise construction, the failures are immense. We've been presenting this outcome over years, and discovered authorities aren't ready to listen as they feel that they know best. With this lack of supervision, we'll get a sector in crisis, and we've now arrived at the precipice of stated crisis.
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