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Welcome to HIA

You're now a part of Australia's premier residential building community

Welcome to HIA

You're now a part of Australia's premier residential building community

Thanks for choosing HIA. By joining Australia's largest national association for the housing industry, you now have access to a huge range of industry products and business services designed to help you manage, operate and grow your business. 

You're in good company. With more than 80% of new Australian homes built by our members, you're now connected with the industry's best. Your support network also just got larger. We have representatives stationed in every region across Australia, here to help you solve your problems and take your business to the next level. We look forward to working with you. 

What you get with HIA

Expert advice and free industry resources

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Discounted contracts, Standards & guides

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Exclusive members-only events & webinars

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Contracts Online - The industry’s go-to digital platform

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myHIA - Your online portal

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Resources, advice & articles

We're here to help you stay aware and compliant, manage expectations and resolve disputes. Access hundreds of expert-led articles on building codes, Australian Standards, materials and products, managing your business, safety and more. As a HIA member, these premium paid articles are all 100% free.

Latest industry news

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Insurance Scams Business operations Risk management
Avoid being the victim of a scam
HIA has received reports from members who have become the victim of fraudsters and scammers targeting the building and construction industry. While scams are many and varied a current scam involves online retailers of estimating a...
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Contractors Hiring Human Resources (HR) Insight Managing staff
The changing voice of the building industry
Improving diversity within the workforce is widely acknowledged to be a good thing for industry productivity, so it is good to report that the construction industry has become more culturally and linguistically diverse over the la...
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Safety Silica Work Health and Safety (WHS)
Working with engineered stone in Victoria
From 1 July 2024 any work involving manufacturing, supply, processing or installation of engineered stone benchtops, panels or slabs is banned.
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Affordable Forecast Insight Regulations Tax
Taxation's major impact on housing affordability
HIA commissioned The Centre for International Economics (CIE) to perform a bottom-up investigation of the magnitude of statutory taxes and regulatory costs in housing costs. Here is a summary of their findings and the full report.
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Compliance Safety Silica
Next steps - working with silica
With the ban on engineered stone in force across Australia, learn about the new rules that will apply later this year to all products that contain 1% or more respirable crystalline silica.
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Australian Tax Office (ATO) Tax Financial planning
Are you ready for the end of financial year?
As the end of the 2023/24 financial year (FY) is looming, now is the time to ensure you and your business are ready for upcoming deadlines and requirements, and that you begin to prepare for the 2024/25 FY and the changes that wil...
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Silica Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Safety
What you need to know about engineered stone
As members will be aware, all jurisdictions have agreed to adopt a ban on the use of engineered stone. While final regulations are yet to be released, HIA understands that members have many questions regarding how the ban will aff...
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Work Health and Safety (WHS) Wellbeing Safety Risk management
How to assess and manage workplace noise
As an employer or PCBU, you have workplace health and safety obligations on a construction site. You will need to assess, manage, and control risks in relation to noise.
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Your next Toyota

You are now eligible for a significant discount on a wide selection of Toyota vehicles. To access this discount, find your nearest dealership and get your verification from your myHIA online dashboard. Get great deals and special member perks when you shop with our partners. 

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Connect your team

Great news! Your HIA membership extends to your team and family members. They can also take advantage of many benefits you have available to you. These include our partner offers, access to our free library of premium articles and lots more.

Invite your staff 

We are so pleased to have you join us.

HIA is committed to understanding the specific issues that affect your region. I am pleased to connect with you on behalf of HIA.

I am not only here to assist and support you on a day-to-day basis, I am also your contact if you have any issues you want taken to a higher level. New regulations affecting you in a negative way? Let us speak for you at all levels of government and do what we can to shift things in your favour.  

Please don't hesitate to reach out if we can assist in any way. Being there for you, our members, is core to our mission at HIA.

Jocelyn Martin

Managing Director
I have been really impressed by how HIA touches base on a regular basis. I look forward to hearing from them and how they can help grow my business.
David Castle - Learning Partners