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.

ALP: "We  will build more homes to justify our immigration increase"

Reality: No increase, but Home Building Companies are going bankrupt and falling down.

Jasin wrote on Aug 29^th, 2026 at 11:09am:


The ALP must’ve known there was financial suspiciousness as apparently the group hadn’t paid any taxes to the government for over 12 months!

I helped build a 4 bedroom Straw Bale House in the Riverina in 2011.
The cost of the build was just $180,000.
Smooth wall and sharp corner rendering.
Insulation 80% superior to a double brick veneer.
Sound proofing 72% with outer room as owner's jam music room.
Took 79% less time to build than conventional builds.
That means less cost on hourly rates.
Walls are fire 🔥 proof.
Earthquake? The walls and structure wobble, not crumble.

Well, will you look at that.

Bathla were also running a 'visa mill'.

Bathla collapse puts scrutiny on developer’s in-house visa agency

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Australia - a land of crooks and scammers. And governments that turn a blind eye to things like this (or they're too incompetent to notice). Take your pick, probably a bit of both.

Awesome concept!

Yes. The only flaw. Mustn't allow water to soak up from the bottom of the external walls.
Other than that, superior upon many levels to all other home buildings.
Should be mandatory in bushfire prone areas.