How Green Are Relocatable Homes?

More Australians are looking to modular homes, kit homes, or relocatable homes ...

Plumbing Mix-up Makes Staff Sick

MELBOURNE Water employees became ill after a plumbing error directed water intended for flushing toilets and washing equipment to drinking taps, an independent investigation has found.

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SKILLS BOOST

A Fine Drop

Great-looking bathrooms used to be water gushers. Not any more. Stories by Claire Halliday.

Demand Floods Tank Providers

RAINWATER tanks, once a common feature of the Australian landscape, have largely disappeared from major cities. But the seriousness of the drought, dwindling water supplies and news of tougher water restrictions has created a surge in rainwater tank sales.

It Is Easy Being Green ...

Sustainable living is cheap, relatively easy, and actually does make a difference. By Annie Reid.

News & Moves - Government

Africans answer the call

Taking The Heat Off

As with most things, preparation is the key to giving your house the best chance against a bushfire.

Vic Building Workers Snub Actu Over Wage Claim

MELBOURNE: Victorian building workers voted yesterday to press for an$80-a-week wage rise and an extra 4 per cent in a rebuff to the ACTU leadership which backs a package aimed at winning the workers a $52 rise. A meeting of about 65 Melbourne shop stewards from the Building Workers'Industri

Plumbers Lose Vic Strike Case

MELBOURNE: The Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees' Union (PGEU) is coming under increasing pressure to drop its national campaign for shorter working hours and big pay rises. Employers won a decision in the Victorian Industrial Relations Commission yesterday giving them the right to suspend