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July 2025 Newsletter
As at 31 May 2025, a total of 13,594 insolvencies have been recorded nationwide — the highest figure since the 2015/16 financial year, which saw 13,853 cases.
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April 2025 Newsletter
BICB has recently achieved several key milestones including the launch of ATO Reportable Tax Debt Default reporting on January 6, 2025; enhancements to Risk Tracker Scores; the successful “go-live” of the Members Access area on our website; and the success of our inaugural Mini Seminar on March 25, 2025.
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January 2025 Newsletter
The largest numbers of insolvencies, both nationally and in the construction industry, in the first five (5) months of any financial year in the twelve (12) years the BICB has been recording and monitoring these records from ASIC.
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October 2024 Newsletter
We have our upcoming members Seminar Day in October 2024. It’s a great opportunity for members to meet, network and get first-hand information on the latest happenings in the Building and Construction Industry.
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July 2024 Newsletter
During May 2024, the Federal Government announced it was committing an extra $90.6 million to assist increasing the number of skilled workers needed to lift the building and construction industries in Australia.
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May 2021 Newsletter
We are led to believe that the ATO will not resume recovery activity through statutory demands until early 2022. Therefore, we now believe that construction industry insolvencies will remain relatively low until the end of 2021. Forecast insolvencies for 2020/2021 financial year may reach 971.
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November 2020 Newsletter
Record High in New Loan Commitments for Housing – The total value of new loan commitments for housing and the value of owner occupier home loan commitments each reached record highs in October 2020.
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October 2020 Newsletter
The number of loans for the construction of a new dwelling increased by 27.1 per cent in the month of September 2020.
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September 2020 Newsletter
The Australian Government has announced the most significant changes to the Australian Insolvency framework in almost 30 years.
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August 2020 Newsletter
This month’s newsletter features a press release from the HIA discussing that population growth and access to housing finance will be key to Victoria’s economic recovery.
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July 2020 Newsletter
This month’s newsletter features a piece on “The ‘false comfort’ of extended temporary insolvency law measures and the need for deeper structural reform” written by Scott Atkins and Kai Luck.
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June 2020 Newsletter
