State and federal governments in Australia have reacted to the Grenfell Tower fire disaster in London with calls for urgent safety checks into the use of non-fire resistant aluminium composite panel ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's second most populous state Victoria pledged on Tuesday to spend A$600 million ($422 million) ...

There are possibly thousands of residential buildings that contain combustible aluminium cladding on exterior walls, experts believe. And the material, made of polyethylene — more flammable than ...

In the aftermath of the June 14 Grenfell Tower fire disaster in London, Australian federal and state governments scrambled to cover up their inaction and culpability over the widespread use of ...

Buildings around Australia, marked as “high risk” of deadly cladding fires, have been kept secret on government registers while little is done. The buildings around Australia, marked as “high risk” ...

The cladding crisis Down Under: what we can learn from the response to Grenfell in Australia #EndOurCladdingScandal #ukhousing In Victoria, Australia, a government-led taskforce has audited more than ...

On Monday night’s episode of Four Corners, the program investigated Australia’s use of cladding similar to the type found in the Grenfell Tower in London, which shot up in flames earlier this year, ...