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A large construction crane towering over a building site.

Tradies working on a construction site, levelling a concrete slab.

"Builders are having to pay a lot more to do good trades, to keep them on site as well. Otherwise you can't get anyone showing up to work."

"If there's a fixed number of people, then some projects are going to miss out,"
Mr Bidwell said.
An illustration of a large stadium in a green park near the CBD.

A man wearing glasses.

"Wait times for homes to be built are going to go through the roof as well,"
she said.
A house that is under construction.

"Carpenters, by a long way, are the biggest hole to be filled,"
he said.
Building covered in scaffolding, construction, crane

"A number of these projects are going to need to be constructed around similar timelines, which obviously creates that pressure."

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