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It's the unions, I knew it was them! Even when it was decades of government policy supporting housing as an investment vehicle, I knew it was them!
Some CFMEU union jobs pay massive salaries to... stand around and chat with your mates.
For example they just fixed a water leak under the footpath outside our office. It took about 3 months and there were often five workers standing around doing almost nothing at all for days at a time.
When I had a water leak at home, we didn't call a union construction company, we called a sole trader. It took one guy two hours to fix the leak, and he charged his "emergency work" rate, which I'm pretty sure was half the price a CFMEU company would have charged just to give us a quote for the job.