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Hi, it's David Chandler, NSW Building Commissioner and

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frankly.

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I'm really glad I'm not in New Zealand, building

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Commissioner. I'm on a building in Auckland today in

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Hargrave St. that.

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Is in absolute tatters. These poor owners have had to

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actually walk away from this building and it's just got to

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go to auction next week and hopefully they'll get as good a

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price and a way out of this nightmare that they can

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possibly achieve. But I'll just, I'll just rotate my my

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camera so you can actually see,

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What we're talking about here?

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This building is.

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Saturated with water.

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It's a conversion of a office building.

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And obviously there was no understanding of the challenges

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of converting an office building and.

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No falls on floors in the bathroom areas.

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Piles of kitchens and cupboards.

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All stood up. Probably all headed for the tip, because I'm

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not sure of that.

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After sitting where it's been sitting, it's going to be

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usable.

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So these are the sorts of things that regulators have

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really got to get in front of and to

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make sure they don't happen again in the future because

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consumers are the people that get hurt most here.

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And they can't recover. This building is going to be almost

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a write off for its owners and I feel dreadfully for them

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as I've felt

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for the owners of Mascot Towers in New South Wales.

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For them, of course, there's an opportunity to move on

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again. It won't be a perfect opportunity, but.

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It's going to be nothing like this.

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So.

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Really, there's not much more I can add to the fact that

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this is one of, well, this is the most shocking

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circumstance that I've seen.

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Of a failed residential apartment building.