NSW Government too late the hero on apartment crisis
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After undergoing an unprecedented boom in high-rise apartment construction over the past decade:

And with flammable cladding and structural faults proliferating, the NSW Government has finally taken action by appointing a dedicated building commissioner:
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has appointed a building industry expert who is a professor at Western Sydney University, David Chandler as her new building commissioner to deal with the apartments mess.
“The commissioner will drive legislative reforms of the industry,” a statement says…
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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.