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If you work on your own property, have you considered if you have the appropriate license to carry out the work? Often when doing this work, you may not consider your legislative obligations from a Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) perspective, thinking it is private work on a personal residence, but it's not that simple.

Early next year, amendments to the state WHS regulations will be enacted and will contain a definition of psychosocial hazards and risks, an express duty to manage those risks, and provisions relating to determining control measures to manage psychosocial risks.

Every second year, Master Builders conducts research with our members, non-members and consumers to gain insights into how we can continue to evolve our products and services to provide value and support for our members and the industry into the future.

Master Builders welcomes the changes to allow the renting out of secondary dwellings, known as ‘granny flats’, without the need for development approval.

The federal government has announced a special public holiday as memorial to the late Queen, to be held on Thursday, 22 September.

There is a window of opportunity to rely on the Special Purpose Financial Statements (SPFS) and skip the greater cost of preparing the General Purpose Financial Statements (GPFS) in the preparation of a QBCC Minimum Financial Requirements (MFR) report.

Government has announced a delay in the implementation of the next iteration of the National Construction Code (NCC), NCC 2022.

As of 1 September 2022 new suburbs will be added to the fire ant biosecurity zones.

From 1 July 2022, the prescribed accounting standards have changed, with a knock-on effect impacting QBCC Minimum Financial Requirements (MFR) Reports.

The federal government has registered a legislative instrument called the Code for the Tendering and Performance of Building Work Amendment Instrument 2022.