CEO Editorial

SA Election

Congratulations to the new incoming Premier Peter Malinauskas and his Labor Party for totally white washing the Liberals, who appear to once again fall through poor performance and poor strategic planning during the lead up to the Election.

I must say, it is always good for a change and after a challenging period with the entire COVID 19 Pandemic taking control of the world, it appears as those all those leaders have been totally “wrecked” by the whole experience. You can’t blame anyone for running a race with no fuel in the tank and coming well behind in all areas.

To the Liberal Party, once again it’s time to regroup, try to build a team from scratch and work on some strategies that support the needs of the people, something that Labor have absolutely nailed with true leadership and support from very capable and talented recruits. I wish them well in their pursuit to project this state into a better economic and financial position.

Federal Election

I could almost write a similar story to the above with just name changes, Anthony Albanese has built a good team and marketed a plan to sell to the Australian people who I believe just want change. One of his quotes during his acceptance speech did make me laugh “I want to unite the people and bring unions and businesses together”. Well, I hope you succeed in that goal but history has proven that is impossible.

Let’s focus on the facts that we see in our industry:

- Unions and builders fight like cat and dogs - There have been numerous attempts to get national harmonization processes across the line – not one has succeeded!

Australia effectively has 7 countries in one. Nobody wants to give up their rights and nobody from central / western Australia want to hand over their freedom to the eastern states. It is all too hard and whether the whole country is Labor or Liberal, it still doesn’t matter.

MPA will continue to work with any Government in charge and will support in all areas, but will be pushing for items related to our industry that need fixing. In SA there are a lot of things that need fixing and this process has begun.

The MPA will not let our industry slide nor will it allow the community to be ripped off, put up with substandard building of homes, dodgy plumbing practices or unlicensed tradespeople doing the work of licensed plumbers. The standards need to be raised and the professionalism of our industry will not falter in any way. I will be reporting more on this subject as we progress to the next phase.

Specialist Contractors Lunch

There was a Business Lunch held on Friday 20th May that involved all the Specialist Contractor stakeholders and key industry people that are involved in medium to large building contracts.

The key sponsors included Portable Long Service Leave and Toyota Australia. Master Plumbers was a sponsor of the event as well. The keynote speaker was Brownyn Weir who was a major contributor to the Shergold Weir Report (Building Confidence Report), that all Plumbing Practioners should read.

There was also a Q & A session with industry leaders. There was a video taken of the speeches and debate and this can be viewed on the Specialist Contractors website.

2022 Roadshows

MPA are really pleased that there has been great support at this years Roadshows, we hope to see more members and non-members at the next events as it is imperative to be updates with the new information around the Australian Standards, the NCC and industry issues.