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Speaker 1: We've got new rules out on when a rental's two

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Speaker 1: contaminated with meth. Under fifteen micrograms per one hundred square meters,

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Speaker 1: you're fine. Fifteen to thirty you need a clean. Over

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Speaker 1: thirty either side canning the lease within a week. Matt

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Speaker 1: Ball Property Investors Federation is with us this morning, Matt,

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Walling Ryn. So this is good because it

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Speaker 1: gives clarity.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it does so at the moment, there are two standards.

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Speaker 2: There's one point five micrograms per one hundred square centimeters,

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Speaker 2: and then there's the fifteen micrograms, which is the science

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Speaker 2: advice above or below which sorry, it's unlikely to cause

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Speaker 2: an adverse effects. So fifteen and below health is fine.

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Speaker 2: Fifteen and above you need to decontaminate. A must rule clarified.

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Speaker 2: It's great.

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Speaker 1: How much what does decontamination cost? Like, if you're in

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Speaker 1: the fifteen to thirty where you need a clean, what

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Speaker 1: does that mean like just a bit of spray and wipe.

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Speaker 2: No, it can be quite extensive depending on the level

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Speaker 2: of contamination. So just to give you a bit of

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Speaker 2: an eye there, Caring Aura spends around three to four

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Speaker 2: million dollars a year decontaminating and they only decontaminate at

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Speaker 2: levels above that fifteen. That's quite a cost.

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Speaker 1: Sure, do you see much of it these days?

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Speaker 2: Yes, our members do see a lot of it, and

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Speaker 2: because of this conflicting standard, we have members decontaminating at

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Speaker 2: levels above one point five at the moment. So that's

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Speaker 2: a considerable cost, which really they shouldn't have to spend,

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Speaker 2: and that cost will be removed, so that's great. I

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Speaker 2: did a quick search of tendency tribunal cases before I

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Speaker 2: came on here, nearly eight hundred cases in the last

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Speaker 2: three years, and these are the cases that reach the tribunal,

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Speaker 2: are the ones with high contamination. Generally, that's also quite

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Speaker 2: a considerable expent, so it's a big problem. This doesn't

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Speaker 2: solve the meth problem, but it does solve the confusion.

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Speaker 2: It will reduce the costs, and hopefully it will make

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Speaker 2: people feel a bit better knowing that the contamination levels

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Speaker 2: are set at the actual scientific recommended levels when they

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Speaker 2: actually do start to impact health.

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Speaker 1: Matt, appreciate your time. Thanks for being with me, Matt

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