Thousands of high-rise to be tested for flammable cladding

Tuesday 4 July 2017

With high-rise apartments having sprouted like mushrooms throughout Melbourne:

And the growing concerns around flammable cladding in the wake of London’s Grenfell Tower disaster, which killed more than 50 people. The Victorian Government has announced a new taskforce to investigate the pervasiveness of flammable cladding used throughout Melbourne’s high-rise apartment projects. From The Age:

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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.