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Under the Building and Construction award, an apprentice can move up a pay stage on reaching 25, 50 or 75 per cent of their competencies, rather than waiting out each 12 months. Here is how it works.
By Construction Australia · · 9 min read
Guides · NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT, NT
How high risk work licences work in Australia: the licence classes, how the 11-metre EWP rule is measured, and how to renew on time so your licence stays current.
· 9 min read · Construction Australia
Guides · NATIONAL
Before a new railway, power station or airport opens, specialist teams test every system. Here is how testing and commissioning works, and who does the work.
· 11 min read · Construction Australia
Guides · NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT, NT
Adjudication is the fast statutory route to getting paid — binding, enforceable and measured in weeks, not years. How the process runs, what it costs, what it decides and what it deliberately leaves open.
· 3 min read · Construction Australia
Guides · NSW, VIC, SA, WA, TAS, ACT
If a respondent ignores your payment claim entirely, you cannot go straight to adjudication in most states. There is a notice you have to serve first — and in Victoria it is due in 10 business days, not 20.
· 4 min read · Construction Australia
Guides · NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT, NT
NCC 2025 was released on 1 May 2026. Victoria, Tasmania, WA and the ACT took it immediately; NSW and Queensland will wait until 2027; South Australia split it, and the Northern Territory has not adopted it at all.
· 4 min read · Construction Australia
Guides · NATIONAL
Transmission is a regulated asset, so the cost of building one reaches customers through network charges. There is a defined process for that — and a defined point where the regulator says no.
· 5 min read · Construction Australia
Guides · NATIONAL
A high risk work licence is issued by a regulator. A verification of competency is issued by your employer. Both get called “tickets” — and treating them as the same is how people do work they are not authorised for.
· 4 min read · Construction Australia
Guides · NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT, NT
The card is recognised nationwide. The training is not. That single distinction explains most of the confusion — and it is why you have to train in the state where you live.
· 6 min read · Construction Australia
Guides · QLD
Published legal commentary states that a Queensland claimant has 10 business days to seek adjudication after receiving a payment schedule. Section 79 of the BIF Act says 30.
· 4 min read · Construction Australia
Guides · NATIONAL
The Skills in Demand visa covers electricians, plumbers, carpenters, project managers and quantity surveyors. It is necessary and it is not sufficient — because a visa is not a licence, and licences are issued by states.
· 5 min read · Construction Australia
Guides · VIC
Act No. 43/2025 repealed excluded amounts, claimable variations and adjudication review from 15 April 2026 — and the new rules reach contracts signed years earlier.
· 6 min read · Construction Australia
