Interested in the past? What were the issues depa dealt with between December 1984 and September 1997?

 HABSA news

Over this period, the Health Surveyors’ Association/the Health and Building Surveyors’ Association published twenty tabloid newspapers and in the last years cheekily added under the masthead “Local Government’s Most Unruly Tabloid”.

Ancient stuff: councils attacking qualification; our smoke-free environment campaign in July 1986 launched by the Minister for the Environment in the Wran Labor Government, Bob Carr, that lead to smoke-free councils; what was stressing health and building surveyors in 1986; members on strike at Sydney, Parramatta and, in November 1992, nearly everywhere; privatisation; private certification; new Local Government Act and Minister sacked; doing it for nothing (a problem then, as now); Craig Knowles’ plan to end Council building control; an offer you can't refuse; No Dodgies in NSW, and more!

Here is a link to our Tabloid Past.

It’s in the Minister’s office but nothing’s happening. It has been:

since the Government and the Minister were appointed on 5 April 2023. We are still waiting for the legislative changes required.

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