A Senate inquiry into the dangerous cladding delivered its report on Wednesday night, calling for an urgent ban on the sale, use and import of polyethylene composite panels in Australia. On Thursday, the senator Nick Xenophon announced he would introduce an amendment to custom laws to stop the import of unsafe cladding products. A spokesman for Laundy described such a ban as impractical and impossible and said the majority of complaints about dangerous building materials concerned locally manufactured products. Stemming the imports of unsafe building products is one part of the solution. In an audit of Adelaide’s CBD, dangerous cladding was found in 77 buildings, including the Royal Adelaide hospital.

Source: The Guardian September 07, 2017 02:26 UTC