Increase the domestic supply of building materials.

• Help resolve the current spike in the cost of building materials.

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• Increase direct investment, and provide incentives to activate more private investment to supply raw materials and through their manufacture in Australia.

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• Head off a looming shortage of timber products for residential construction including measures to encourage state and territory governments to increase the size of softwood plantations.

Ensure that home ownership is within reach for everyone & there is enough new homes, high quality rental stock, & social community housing.

•  Increase levels of home ownership through measures to assist overcoming the deposit gap.

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•  Tax incentives for housing investors to upgrade their properties.

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•  Increasing the supply of land for housing, and reduction in land development taxes through incentive payments to state and territory governments.

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• Increase the supply of social and community housing.

Everyone in the construction industry should play by the rules.    The economic recovery cannot be put at risk by construction union industrial tactics that disrupt & drive up the cost of construction projects.

• Ensure that the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) and its powers are kept in place and in no way watered down.

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•  Pass laws to ensure that there is accountability
  and transparency in registered organisations and their related entities.

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Investment in a pipeline of infrastructure projects & ensure that the benefits to the economy & community are maximised.

• Ensure that investment meets the needs for a broad range of transport, defence and social infrastructure.

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• Implement procurement reforms such as local participation, capability and capacity requirements to ensure that local contractors and subcontractors have a fair opportunity to tender for work.

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• Implement procurement processes that better balance risk transfer to encourage greater competition.

Get more people into work & create more job opportunities.

• Greater support with the right policy frameworks to ensure the industry can deliver the construction activity is driving the recovery.

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• Financial incentives for employers to take on more apprentices that will create more opportunities to forge rewarding careers and start-up businesses.

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• Greater flexibility in working visas to reflect real time labour supply constraints.