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Speaker 1: Hello, Katie Wolf and three point sixty online at Mix

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Speaker 1: one O four nine dot com.

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Speaker 2: The Northern Territory Government has provided advice to property owners

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Speaker 2: following the results of an engineering assessment report into select

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Speaker 2: properties in Palmerston.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: This report found that while there's no immediate safety risk,

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Speaker 2: the structural building system used in some of these homes

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Speaker 2: has been determined to be non compliant with the requirements

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Speaker 2: of the Building Code of Australia in force at the

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Speaker 2: time of construction, so while also being strategically or structurally

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Speaker 2: i should say, inadequate in its design to meet the

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Speaker 2: needs of the Northern Territory. Now joining me in the

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Speaker 2: studio to talk a little bit more about this situation

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Speaker 2: and what it means is Mark Meldrum, who is the

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Speaker 2: Director of Building Control with the Territory Government.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you.

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Speaker 4: Mark, Good morning, how are you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very well, And I've also gotten the studio the

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Speaker 2: Northern Territory Consumer Affairs Commissioner Sandy Otto.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Sandy, Good morning Cody. Great to

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Speaker 1: have you.

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Speaker 2: Both in the studio on I really appreciate the fact

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Speaker 2: that we've both come in this morning to have a

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Speaker 2: chat with us about this.

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Speaker 1: Mark I might go to you first.

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Speaker 2: The Northern Territory government, I know, has been working with

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Speaker 2: the impacted homeowners following reports of defects to these homes,

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Speaker 2: which included movement in flooring, cracked and loose tiles, and

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Speaker 2: poor drainage on balconies.

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Speaker 1: Mark how many homes are we talking about here.

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Speaker 4: There's eighteen homes in total, Cadie. They're split between two

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Speaker 4: warranty schemes, so ten are covered under the Home Building

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Speaker 4: Certification Fund and the remaining eight are covered under the

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Speaker 4: Residential Building Cover scheme. And that's because of the timing

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Speaker 4: of the construction of the buildings over a period of time.

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Speaker 4: So the department's been working with the landowners with the

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Speaker 4: Home Building Certification Fund COVER and did an assessment report

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Speaker 4: which which gets to the nub of the issue about

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Speaker 4: the structural integrity of the buildings. And we've been working

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Speaker 4: through with the owners on how we can solve these

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Speaker 4: issues for them.

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Speaker 1: So when were these homes constructed.

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Speaker 4: Twenty twelve and two thousand and issues first started being

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Speaker 4: experienced by the owners in around twenty fourteen. The developer

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Speaker 4: and the builder did address issues up until about twenty

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Speaker 4: to all affected landowners at the time and let them

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Speaker 4: know that they're covered under two warranty schemes. They can

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Speaker 4: make applications and deal with us about how we can

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Speaker 4: move forward.

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Speaker 2: So when was the government first notified that there were

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Speaker 2: issues with these Times.

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Speaker 4: Would have been around twenty fourteen, when the developer was

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Speaker 4: working with the builder and the homeowners at the time.

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Speaker 1: And so how has this happened?

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Speaker 2: Firstly, how do we end up in a situation where,

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Speaker 2: you know, where we've now got homeowners who are going

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Speaker 2: to be really quite concerned that their homes aren't up

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it happens through the construction techniques used, the type

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Speaker 4: of design that's used, the product used. Our assessment and

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Speaker 4: testing shows that it's a non compliant, but it is

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Speaker 4: reasonably safe to occupy the buildings. The only warning that

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Speaker 4: we have is to evacuate in a cyclone. If there

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Speaker 2: And so twenty fourteen was when you guys first found

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Speaker 2: out about it. How is it that we're sort of

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Speaker 2: only hearing about it now? I guess all these years later, like.

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Speaker 4: I said, the developer and the builder, we're trying to

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Speaker 4: address these issues in the early years, and then that

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Speaker 4: came to a position where nothing was happening and none

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Speaker 4: of the development, none of the rectification issues were addressed.

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Speaker 1: And so where are we at now?

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Speaker 2: Have those issues now been addressed by the developer?

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Speaker 4: So no, not by the developer. They're covered under two funds,

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Speaker 4: as I said, and there's some homes that are not

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Speaker 4: covered anymore through the passage of time. But we're working

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Speaker 2: Okay, I guess from a real layman's perspective, I'm assuming

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Speaker 2: that it wouldn't just be eighteen homes across the territory

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Speaker 1: Is there other homes that could potentially be at risk?

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Speaker 1: Not really.

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Speaker 4: The builders no longer registered, but the builder was registered

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Speaker 4: for a number of years. They might have done work

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Speaker 4: with this eighteen package of eighteen homes is unique, and

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Speaker 4: that they use a particular building system that hasn't been

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Speaker 4: replicated too far and wide. So there might be a

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Speaker 4: small number of this product being used, but not the

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Speaker 2: I guess you know, what is the advice for people

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Speaker 2: thinking to themselves, goodness, May I hope my home isn't

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Speaker 2: one of these or maybe my home is.

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 4: Like I said, we've contacted all the effected homeowners, but

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Speaker 4: if there's anyone who is concerned about the construction of

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Speaker 4: structural engineering advice if they.

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Speaker 2: Wish, Sandy, what options do people have here? I mean

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Speaker 2: if somebody goes into this process of home ownership or

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Speaker 3: When a property is built in the Northern Territory, they'll

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Speaker 3: get a fidelity certificate and that certificate we'll cover them

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Speaker 3: for six years. There's twelve months nonstructural cover and then

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Speaker 3: there's full sixty years for structural cover. So if it's

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Speaker 3: in between that time, they can certainly give us a

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Speaker 3: it becomes a case where the relationship's broken down between

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Speaker 2: With these homes, With these homes that now are in

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Speaker 2: this situation where I know, as you've said, Mark, there's.

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Speaker 1: You know, they're structurally.

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Speaker 2: Inadequate or it's been reported that while they're also structurally

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Speaker 2: inadequate in their design. But they're not going to have

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Speaker 2: to move out of them or anything. If there is

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Speaker 2: those homes, as I understand it. But what's the process then,

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Speaker 2: I suppose for these people if they are looking at

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Speaker 2: to be sort of I don't know who this question

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Speaker 4: Well, the buildings have issues, but I haven't deemed them

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Speaker 4: orders or notices on the on the owners. However, when

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Speaker 4: you buy a property, you can get an inspection report done,

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Speaker 4: a building status report, which is usually a review of

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Speaker 4: you can seek independent professional advice such as a structural

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Speaker 4: are those checks and balances in place.

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Speaker 2: But I would assume, I mean, I'm assuming that then

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Speaker 2: like if they do those reports, that it is going

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Speaker 2: to find that they do have these deffects.

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Speaker 4: In the homes they may do.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, And so I guess then, Sandy, when you

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Speaker 1: Do people have?

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Speaker 2: I suppose if they, you know, they go down the

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Speaker 2: they may be looking to move into state or looking

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Speaker 2: to go somewhere else, is that going to make that

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Speaker 3: Potentially it could do. Unfortunately, I can't give any advice

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Speaker 3: if it is a case of buyer beware. So I

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Speaker 3: always suggest if someone is looking at a home that

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Speaker 3: they do all that checks and balances, like Mark said,

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Speaker 3: to make sure that they are fully informed of the

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Speaker 2: And are there I guess, are there sort of procedures

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Speaker 4: Yes, certainly, we've gone out with industry consultation on building

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Speaker 4: that at the moment. And that includes a greater oversight

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Speaker 2: And what is I don't know what the right word is.

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Speaker 2: I don't think punishment's the right word. But what is

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Speaker 2: really try to I don't whether it's compensate or to

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Speaker 4: Well, the builder is no longer registered. If the builder

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Speaker 1: Now, now, Sandy, I.

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Speaker 2: Do want to ask you actually about something else which

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Speaker 2: is quite separate to this situation with these homes. I

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Speaker 2: want to ask you about this online scam which is

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Speaker 2: doing the rounds by the sounds of it all around Australia,

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Speaker 2: but we're certainly not immune to it here in the

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Speaker 2: Northern Territory. Can you tell us a little bit more

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Speaker 2: with this.

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Speaker 3: No worries, Katie. We first found out the fake websites

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Speaker 3: a product out in Berrima. They gave us the address

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Speaker 3: of it and said they were just a little bit

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Speaker 3: concerned because it was up here. They were down south

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Speaker 3: and they just wanted to make sure it was genuine.

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Speaker 3: And we went out to the property and found out

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Speaker 3: it was a vacant block. So we started doing some

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Speaker 3: investigation at that point and found out the whole website

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Speaker 3: was fake. The prices that they were asking for the

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Speaker 3: goods were way too cheap. There was really nothing on

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Speaker 3: there that was genuine. It was just amazing. And in fact,

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Speaker 3: these people will take photos from websites overseas of their

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Speaker 3: you do a reverse Google search, you often find that

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Speaker 3: it's connected to some website over Europe. The reviews are fake.

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Speaker 3: Everything's fake. But what the getting smarter now and this

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Speaker 3: is what the problem is, and it's catching more people out.

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Speaker 3: They actually use genuine ABN numbers now, so they've stolen

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Speaker 3: the ABN from a genuine business that may not have

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Speaker 3: member from the genuine business as part of their fake website.

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Speaker 1: It's goodness me. They get more and more elaborate, don't they,

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Speaker 1: these scammers.

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Speaker 3: They certainly do. And our advice is to certainly if

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Speaker 3: you're looking at a website, you're thinking about buying something. Firstly,

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Speaker 3: can you look at it? If you can't go and

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Speaker 3: see it, if you can't get someone that's in the

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Speaker 3: same town to go and have a look at it,

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Speaker 3: don't buy it.

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Speaker 2: Well, and we're talking about sort of personal monetary losses

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Speaker 2: totally nine hundred and seven thousand dollars already reported to

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Speaker 2: Consumer Affairs as I understand it. Have we had people

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Speaker 2: here in the Northern Territory really suffer loss from these scams?

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Speaker 3: Luckily you haven't, yep. But we've actually saved money at

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Speaker 3: all across Australia. They've seen our warnings when we put

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Speaker 3: them up on our Facebook page. Since we find them,

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Speaker 3: we put them up, and we certainly ask people that

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Speaker 3: they share the post that we put up so we

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Speaker 3: can get the word out there more and more.

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Speaker 2: Oh good on you guys, and certainly good on you

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Speaker 2: for being very proactive by the sounds of it and

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Speaker 2: making sure that everybody knows what's going on.

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Speaker 1: Oh look, I've got a few questions that have come

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Speaker 1: through Mark, I've got one here for you. Is it

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Speaker 1: going to be Do people need to disclose the.

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Speaker 2: Faults going back to the homes if they are looking

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Speaker 2: at selling, Do they need to disclose those faults.

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Speaker 4: It's not mandated in the Northern Territory law to disclose

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Speaker 4: the faults. But like I said, if you choose to

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Speaker 4: have an inspection there, like a status report done by

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Speaker 4: a registered practitioner, it will probably be identified in that

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Speaker 4: through that process.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, could that be a concern then if it's not,

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Speaker 2: if it isn't disclosed, and if they do, like if

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Speaker 2: we have good a situation where they need to be

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Speaker 2: out of those homes, if there's a cyclone, how would

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Speaker 2: that you know, how would the next time owner be

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Speaker 2: aware of that if it's not disclosed.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And that's a good point. But we were working

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Speaker 4: with you with the ten homeowners that are covered on

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Speaker 4: HBC have to resolve their issues with the homes in

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Speaker 4: any case, and Sandy has been working with those covered

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Speaker 4: on the RBC as well.

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Speaker 2: And so hopefully everything gets sorted for those homeowners sooner

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Speaker 2: rather than later.

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Speaker 4: We'll we're looking at trying trying to resolve it as

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Speaker 4: quick as you can.

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Speaker 1: Yes, instantly.

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Speaker 2: Well, I really appreciate you both coming into the studio

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Speaker 2: this morning. Certainly a lot to cover off NT Consumer

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Speaker 2: Affairs Acting Commissioner Sandy Otto thank you so.

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Speaker 1: Much for your time.

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Speaker 2: And the Director of Building Control, mister Mark Meldrum, thank

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Speaker 2: you so much for your time.