WHY has the Construction Sector got the highest rate of Suicide?
WITH 80 to 90% the spiral can start from a relationship break down, or any kind of loss, from a loved one to gambling. Followed by unexpected financial problems … a lack of Job security*
They work excruciatingly long hoursto work themselves out of a job—every six months
Pressed to complete large projects on-budget with unrealistic timelines … prioritised over employee wellbeing … for whose benefit?
Together the leadership and their staff are going through this drive for cost savings … for whose benefit?
These workers are 53% more likely to die by suicide than other employed males in this country.
Death by suicide in the sector is six times higher than death due to site accidents.
Nor have they been encouraged to seek help …
AS it is said it starts ‘at the Top’ …
WHO benefits from the workers’ long hours, insecurity, on-budget, unrealistic timelines, cost savings … certainly not the workers or the clients (buyers) of developments …
AS it is said it starts ‘at the Top’ … destroying our $ociety ...
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The Urban Developer: Why Is Suicide So Widespread In The Construction Sector?
6 Julie Street, Marsfield fetched an extra million dollars when it sold for the second time within five months. Photo: Belle Property Ryde
Sydney house prices soared to a new record of $1,309,195 after jumping $103,000
over the MARCH quarter, or 8.5 per cent.
HOW COME?
This is the fastest quarterly acceleration of house prices since Domain records began in 1993.
This has pushed annual house price gains into double digit percentage growth, making it the steepest increase since the lead up to the previous price peak in mid-2017, at 12.6 per cent. …
All Sydney regions have hit record high house prices.
READ MORE IF YOU CAN BEAR IT … what it means many cannot own shelter!
HOWEVER, for those who sold during 2020 and were looking for another home … found that at 1 February 2021 house prices mysteriously jumped $200,000 or more from December 2020 …
-now priced out of their communities across Sydney
HOW was this FECK-UP cooked up?
-ultra-low home loan rates
-government incentives … a boon to the property mates
-high household savings (and the Bank of Mum and Dad … some even going guarantor … whereby they could lose the lot down the track)
-money laundering in real estate continues
IS the Morrison government doing its bit to promote Australia as a safe haven for laundered money and the proceeds of corruption? With Australian real estate a prime market for hiding dirty money
-much of the current housing market stock less than $2M is of pooor quality with ridiculous price tags
.with plastic cladding, termite damage, rat infestations, leaky roof, drainage issues, damp, mould, shaky foundations, ancient kitchens and bathrooms, and not even a coat of paint!
‘Australian-owned, Gazcorp is led by proud Sydney-siders, Nabil Jnr and Nicholas Gazal. Our switched-on city is on the verge of shining brighter than ever before. With experience and dedication, we share our vision for better urban living.
Gazcorp has evolved into one of the country’s major multi-sector real estate investment companies. Established under the leadership of the late Nabil Gazal, we have increased our commercial, retail and residential strengths, completing projects both domestically and across the globe.’
ICAC: Chris Hartcher, Chris Spence and Darren Webber accused of hiding election funding
The slush fund had three principal donors — Australian Water Holdings, which was the subject of the previous ICAC inquiry that felled Premier Barry O’Farrell, major Newcastle developer Buildev, and Gazcorp — which was the subject of a previous ICAC inquiry about its shopping centre at Orange Grove.
Colonel Pickering’s (Ex Ryde LNP Mayor) pre-planned retirement scheme questioned
PLANNING MINISTER Roberts launched the Parramatta office of Bill Pickering’s lobbying firm Hugo Halliday after it vacated its Gazcorp-subsidised Gladesville office.
Also view: REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS BEFORE GENERAL PURPOSE STANDING COMMITTEE No. 4 INQUIRY INTO DESIGNER OUTLETS CENTRE, LIVERPOOL ——— At Sydney on Monday 11 October 2004 ——— The Committee met at 11.00 a.m.
HOW WILL REOPENING OUR BORDERS IMPACT THE PROPERTY INDUSTRY?
Ah – Ha …
Meanwhile News Reports as recently as this evening (18 April 2021) on the transmission of Covid-19 at the ‘ADINA’ between two families who have returned from overseas …
Why is it Health Minister Hunt appears anxious to allay fears?
Property Council Chief Executive, Ken Morrison speaks of safely reopening our borders … and then …Ken continues,
“population growth is a critical ingredient to Australia’s economic success.”
SUBSTITUTE with ‘the Property Council’s economic success’.
Ken Morrison then proposes the National Cabinet should take steps to increase Australia’s quarantine capacity … now if resumption of our borders cannot occur until 2022
… AND further proposes ramping up our quarantine arrangements to enableTEN TIMES the current capacity!
WHO is the Morrison Govt working for?
Back before Sc.mmo entered politics he wrote the policy for the deve-loper lobby, The Property Council of Australia
READ MORE: ‘How will Reopening our Borders impact the Property Industry’
In response to the global pandemic, Australia closed its borders to international visitors and migrants in 2020. As a result, the property industry witnessed weaker rental demand caused by the slower population growth.
Recently, the Property Council of Australia has welcomed the National Cabinet’s decision to task the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC) with providing guidance on the future of international border quarantine agreements.
The decision – while still in relatively early stages – is expected to positively impact the property industry. The AHPPC has been requested to provide specific health advice regarding the implications for quarantine arrangements and the reopening of Australia’s borders – following the successful vaccine rollout of Phase 1A and 1B. This marks an important first step towards safely reopening our borders to international visitors and migrants* and in turn, seeing an increase in rental* demand across the nation
Property Council Chief Executive, Ken Morrison speaks of safely reopening; “the safe reopening of international borders is one of the biggest decisions facing Australia and this review is an important step in enabling this to happen. Australia needs greater clarity and consistency not just around our domestic restrictions but also around the implications of the vaccine rollout on our international quarantine arrangement.”
Ken continues, “population growth* is a critical ingredient to Australia’s economic success.* If the resumption of normal border arrangements cannot occur until some time in 2022, the National Cabinet should take concrete steps to increase our quarantine capacity now. Australia can stay safe and accelerate economic recovery by ramping up our quarantine arrangements to enable ten times the current capacity.”
‘People have to live somewhere & it is far preferable to go up, allowing for the preservation of open spaces & transport consolidation than out, resulting in urban sprawl & the entire Sydney basin eventually being covered in squat buildings. It is the peculiarly Australian malady of High Rise Phobia that continues to fuel the urban sprawl that is threatening Mt Gilead & similar places.‘
CAAN: Yes, people do have to live somewhere, and in case it has escaped your notice, Lex, both Sydney and Melbourne have been subjected to high immigration … not just 70,000 per annum of permanent migrants, but during the term of the Howard Government it rose to some 200,000, 300,000 or more with temporary migration of Visa holders!
This population explosion began in the late 1990s of the Howard Government when Middle Class Chinese were invited to invest or buy our real estate to gain ‘Flexible Citizenship’!
And the Ponzi Scheme… the origins of which date back to the 457 Visa being introduced after John Howard took office …
Many on Student Visas were able to bring out family members through a Family Visa, Parent, Grandparent, and Guardian Visa.
The PhD Student Visa, Investor Stream, Significant Investor … and more!
This huge influx particularly from China led to increased competition for our housing … house prices escalated … locking out many young Australians … Black Money was awash in our real estate as the second tranche of the AML Legislation was shelved … then in October 2018 the Morrison Government exempted the Real Estate Gatekeepers from the Anti-Money Laundering Laws!
In January 2019 Scott Morrison announced a cut to migration of some 30,000, but at the same time overlooked that there were some 2.2 Million VISA Holders in Australia!
This Visa manipulation has benefited not only foreign buyers but both the high-rise and urban sprawl developers … in fact a ruling of the FIRB has allowed them to sell ‘new homes’ to foreign buyers! Whole Precincts of high-rise and urban sprawl!
IT would seem that the Australian People have been overruled by developers, doesn’t it?
We have had no say about this whatsoever despite many spending years to try and save our Heritage, Fauna, Flora, Farmlands, villages and suburbs from their greed and destruction!
SO what do you say now, Lex, about ‘High Rise Phobia’ fuelling the urban sprawl?
Search CAAN Website to learn more about …
-Lang Walker, Walker Corporation
-Harry Triguboff, Meriton
-Country Garden (now Risland)
-LandCom
-Wilton, Appin, Mount Gilead
-Visa Manipulation
-Foreign Investment Review Board (the FIRB) and much more!
The Sydney Eastern City Planning Panel knocked back the redevelopment proposal for 40-76 William Street by Anprisa Pty Ltd, associated with Edward Doueihi, founder and director of Ceerose.
DESPITE the panel’s rejection, managing director Edward Doueihi confirmed that the company intends to progress the existing design for the project through the Land & Environment Court process. (AKA the Developers Court.)
WITH a track record like that of CEEROSE could it be that those in Leichhardt may have many more reasons to object to the development of this apartment complex in their midst?
(Search for this report; however some residents don’t share this view. At 2019, and in the 3 years since handover, the Owners had experienced basement flooding!)
Greaton’s St Leonards South for 232 apartments … Homes a Thing of the Past
Among Greaton’s Partners is Builder CEEROSE … a company that has had issues raised concerning complaints of flooding and defective materials and workmanship!
The potentially unlawful shredding of documents relating to $252 million in grants could finally be the nail in the coffin of New South Wales’ Premier Gladys Berejiklian,
The story so far
A NSW Parliamentary Committee investigating the $252 million Stronger Communities Fund has been told by two senior staff members of the Premier’s office that ‘working notes’ sent between Ms Berejiklian and her senior staff member Sarah Lau with regard to grant allocation, were physically shredded, and then digitally deleted, in what was “not routine practice”.
The revelations have resulted in fresh calls for the Premier to resign, amid concerns her staff may have acted unlawfully in disposing of the papers.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has faced scrutiny recently over her involvement in – or at least wilful blindness in the face of – allegations of corruption by members of her Party.
Just a few weeks ago, NSW residents were polarised over whether the Premier should resign after admitting to a long-term, secret personal relationship with disgraced former MP Daryl Maguire; during which the pair discussed the latter’s questionable business dealings.
Shielded by the mainstream media
The narrative put forth by parts of the mainstream media was that the Premier’s personal life and poor relationship choice should not prevent her from continuing in her position.
The rules pertaining to proper conduct applying to all citizens of this state, as well as less senior politicians, don’t apply when it comes to the NSW premier, according to the suspect actions and excuses of current office-bearer Gladys Berejiklian.
The latest scandal to beset the state’s leader – and perhaps the most damning – involves her signing off on a suite of council grants adding up to $141 million, much of which just happened to be allocated to councils in Coalition-held seats in the lead up to the last election.
Berejiklian is not the only minister to have signed off on the grants in order to “curry favour” within the community.
The $252 million grants rort – 95 percent of which was allocated to Coalition regions – saw deputy premier John Barilaro and a former local government minister giving biased approvals too.
An investigation by the State Archives and Records Authority (the ‘SARA’) has found that the New South Wales Premier’s office broke the law when they shredded documents relating to $252 million in grants.
However, there is no indication any charges will be laid or that the premier or her office will be made legally accountable for their misconduct.
The law
The State Records Act 1998 (NSW) requires public officers to protect and retain a range of records.
(1) Each public office must ensure the safe custody and proper preservation of the State records that it has control of.
(2) A public office must ensure that arrangements under which a State record that it has control of but that is in the possession or custody of some other person include arrangements for the safe keeping, proper preservation and due return of the record.
(3) A public office must take all reasonable steps to recover a State record for which the public office is responsible and that the public office does not have control of, unless the record is under the control of the Authority or of some other person with lawful authority.
Under the government’s formal requirement for ministers’ offices records, and a requirement of the act, “briefing notes or papers maintained in the Premier’s Office” are “required as state archives.”
Section 21 of the Act further requires that a person must not ‘abandon or dispose of a State record’, nor ‘damage or alter a State record.’
The maximum penalty for the offence is a fine of $5,500, which applies to each breach.
The shredded documents are certainly state records for the purposes of the Act.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian has attracted media headlines yet again as the New South Wales parliamentary inquiry into the allocation of government grants heard fresh reports of corruption.
Moreover, the grant was announced during the Wagga Wagga by-election that was sparked by the resignation of Daryl Maguire over corruption claims; Mr Maguire is, of course, the person with which Ms Berejiklian had a ‘secret relationship’ during that time.
The New South Wales Upper House has referred Premier Glady Berejiklian to the state’s corruption watchdog, which is already investigating the business dealings of her former partner Daryl Maguire.
Conflict of Interest
The motion asserts that the NSW Premier failed to declare a conflict of interest when dealing with road upgrades.
In that regard, there are concerns that Ms Berejiklian met with Mr Maguire about an upgrade to a road more than 100km from his Wagga Wagga electorate, which runs past two investment properties he hoped to use as short-term rental accommodation.
It also alleges the Premier failed to disclose a conflict of interest when planning the M9 Outer Sydney Orbital; a project in relation to which Mr Maguire stood to obtain a financial benefit from.
“Mr Maguire stood to profit from both the upgrade of the Cobb Highway and from knowledge of the M9’s route. He was the premier’s partner at the time,” Labor leader in the Upper House Adam Searle said
COMMUNITY ACTION ALLIANCE FOR NSW (CAAN): HOUSING INEQUALITY WITH AUSSIES LOCKED OUT! 