Smoke alarms to fix forest of towering infernos

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By Leith van Onselen

The fallout from the recent fire at the 41-storey Neo200 building on Melbourne’s Spencer Street continues, with owners of buildings covered in flammable cladding ordered to move smoke alarms closer to danger zones. From The Canberra Times:

The order comes as Melbourne City Council’s chief building surveyor warned one building’s owners that cladding had made their tower “a danger to the life, safety or health of any member of the public or of any person using the building”…

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About the author
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.