How extensive is flammable cladding across nation’s high-rises?

Friday 23 June 2017

Last week, Victoria’s Planning Minister, Richard Wynne, assured Melbournians that a fire like the one which engulfed London’s Grenfell Tower, killing more than 50 people, could not happen in Melbourne:

“This would not be possible in Melbourne, or Australia in fact, because we have the strongest building codes really of any first-world country,” he said, noting that the London apartment had neither sprinklers nor a central fire alarm.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.