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The construction industry workforce has become more diverse in recent years, the industry stands to benefit if further change can be accelerated to increase the diversity, equity and inclusivity of the industry.
Improving diversity within the workforce inherently opens the door to a larger pool of individuals to meet industry’s labour force needs.
Workforce diversity has been shown to improve the quality of decision making and improve innovation, which combine to improve productivity. Greater workforce diversity will benefit businesses within the housing industry and higher performing businesses will benefit the housing industry and Australian economy more broadly.
Efforts to improve diversity begin with attracting people from a wider range of backgrounds to consider the career opportunities within the housing industry. These efforts must be fortified by efforts to create an inclusive environment that enables people from more diverse backgrounds with opportunities to succeed/thrive in the industry.
HIA supports efforts and will work with all levels of government and industry to encourage cultural change and broaden opportunities for all individuals to work and prosper in the residential building industry.
HIA took the opportunity to respond to the Treasury on the Consultation Paper on Unfair Trading Practices protections for small businesses, which includes proposals to extend protections to ‘small businesses’ as consumers, business-to-business dealings and franchisees not already captured by the small business definition.
HIA provided a response to the Review of Western Australia’s Home Building Contract Laws Discussion Paper. The Discussion Paper includes various recommendations to amend the Home Building Contracts Act 1991 (WA) and the Building Services (Complaint Resolution and Administration) Act 2011 (WA), in addition to supporting statutory systems.
HIA provided comments on the Low-rise housing reforms and targeted assessment discussion paper.
HIA comment on the Explanation of Intended Effect for Variations and changes to complying development (the EIE). HIA has worked with the Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure over a long period of time to advocate for the expansion of complying development.
HIA responded to the Draft Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Regulations 2026 (Draft SOP Regulations) and Draft Building Work Contractors Regulations 2026 (Draft BWC Regulations).
HIA provided a submission to the Productivity Commission on the Inquiry into Housing Supply Regulation.