Danielle Wood

So, you know, we think the kind of story on housing...

is largely a supply story, as I've said.

That's partly around planning rules and zoning and what you can build and where.

And then it's partly the fact that we've just got less good at building when we can build.

So it's certainly contributing to that overall challenge in housing supply.

So I should say the reason it didn't have recommendations, Alan, is there's a distinction in our work between the reports that are commissioned by the government, which are our inquiry reports.

We do very big formal process submissions, recommendations to government.

And then we are able to self-generate our own work, which this was an example of, which doesn't typically have recommendations or the kind of the full shebang sort of approach.

So, you know, what we have seen is a pause in updates in the National Construction Code.

It came up a lot as an area that was adding costs and complexities.

And one of the challenges that the people put to us was just the frequency of updates.

So, you know, how can I innovate around a new building technique or material when the code is just constantly moving and I feel like the rug's going to be pulled out from underneath me in one or two years?

So I think that's important as well as obviously the deep dive look into the code.

There have been some movement on the barriers to modern methods of construction.

There are various barriers to uptake of, say, prefabricated or modular housing.

But we said certainly regulatory barriers shouldn't be standing in the way.

And I think state and federal governments are working to ensure that those barriers are removed so that we can see some of these more innovative building techniques and more productive techniques being picked up.

So, you know, I think we have seen some movement.

I know the minister, you know, really is taking this issue extremely seriously.

And I've heard her kind of picking up some of those key themes from the report.