

Defects within the construction industry have been a hot topic with pressure is mounting on officials to provide more support and funding either to individual owners’ corporations, or councils confronted with buildings that could need flammable cladding replaced and defects addressed.

Many high-rise apartment owners in Australia have been left to pay to fix widespread problems such as water penetration and incomplete fire safety systems.

The report said the country's building industry had reached “crisis point” and pointed to governments' failure to enforce building standards.

The lack of standards and emerging dangers were dramatically revealed in November 2014 when fire raced up 13 levels of Melbourne's residential Lacrosse Tower in as little as ten minutes.

In June 2017, a fire at London's Grenfell Tower killed 72 people, which prompted the Australian government to commission an inquiry into the country's building and construction system.

Christmas Eve last year later revealed the systemic problems within the industry were far wider than just cladding, when residents of the 36-level Opal Tower in Sydney were evacuated after the concrete in the building's walls and floor cracked.