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Cut the red tape

Reduce taxes, charges, and red tape for housing and small businesses.

Cut the red tape

Reduce taxes, charges, and red tape for housing and small businesses.

HIA recommends the next Northern Territory Government:

  • Minimal National Construction Code (NCC), WHS and building regulatory changes in the next term of government.
  • Two years’ notice for any major building, safety or regulatory changes. All changes supported by a well-designed education program delivered in conjunction with industry.
  • Commit to genuine planning reform and red tape reduction including repealing burdensome and outdated regulations in consultation with industry.
  • Require all government departments to identify regulatory offsets for any new regulations to counteract additional cost burden borne by the new or amended laws and applying a ‘one-out: one-in’ principle for all regulatory changes.


The residential building industry in the Territory is exhausted from reforms and is heavily restricted by government decisions. Restrictive regulation has been piled on industry in recent years.

Industry certainty is key to ensuring residential builders can move forward to deliver the 11,000 new homes that need to be built in the NT over the next 5 years in order to address the current housing crisis and put downwards pressures on housing affordability.

  • An incoming government should commit to stability for industry with a pause on any major reforms to the home building industry over the course of the next 5 years.
  • A commitment to no additional significant regulation for a term of government would make a real difference to the industry’s ability to deliver more housing.
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