Global economy - 'we' were building at the time of timber mill closures etc here - and the cost of materials went up - I kid you not - 30-50% overnight and many became instantly scarce or impossible.  'we' MAY have got the last Ironbark pure timbers for our house under construction ... and relatively cheaply, too.  Nothing has changed except that costs of living and thus real inflation have gone through the roof - official inflation is a lie when you know that pay rises needed just to keep up will only cause cost rises again - and when some start receiving 30% (protected government workers again) pay rises you KNOW the whole thing is on the slippery slide downwards.  (What ever happened to the National Wage Case?)

The trend to mass immigration, to increasingly costly materials continues to rise alongside the global parasite's bank accounts - local industry and jobs disappear while governments fiddle - and the mad rush to construction created by government to try to stay afloat with an economy destroying itself, construction being the only game in town apart from bureaucrat, nursing and education, and middle man parasite - and of course Tent City Slicker - and the artificial 'lack of tradies' and rising costs mean disaster long before any company can fulfill its contracts.

Drain The Billabongs!  Make Australia Great Again!  Stop Mass Immigration/Install Guest Workers!  Stabilise Our OWN Economy First!  Divorce From the Global Economy and Make Them Come To YOUR Door!  Banish The Shadow Governments!  Overhaul OUR Democratic Process!  Power To The People!  Take Back The Asylum!  One Country For All - Or Every Man For Himself!!

You choose.