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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.
By Construction Australia · · 9 min read
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 · 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
Projects · SA
Major equipment is installed and the transfer pipeline is built at SA Water's $470 million Eyre Peninsula desalination plant, with a revised first-water date to follow the granite tunnelling.
· 4 min read · Construction Australia
Projects · SA
Laing O'Rourke and Amentum were appointed Capability Partner in July. Around $1.9 billion in contracts is already let, and the projected investment is $30 billion over coming decades.
· 4 min read · Construction Australia
Projects · NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT, NT, NATIONAL
Queensland leads a run of big state capital programs, with a record $119 billion over four years. Here is where the infrastructure work sits in every state and territory in 2026.
· 7 min read · Construction Australia
Guides · NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT, NT
Every security of payment deadline that matters, by jurisdiction — payment schedules, adjudication windows and claim periods — verified against the consolidated Acts. Diarise in business days, in the right state.
· 2 min read · Construction Australia
