A new financial year lands on 1 July, and it brings more than the usual housekeeping. In this solo Monday episode, Az runs builders through every change hitting their business in the same week. Award wages, payday super, expanded parental leave, tighter safety rules in South Australia, the NSW DBP Act expansion, and the permanent return of loss carry back.

He also breaks down the headlines that matter. The record $119 billion Queensland budget and the Residential Activation Fund doubled to $1 billion. The $5.2 billion NSW bet on Western Sydney water and prefab. And the apprenticeship numbers that look strong on the surface but tell a messier story underneath, with a hard look at why a fragmented industry full of overlapping not for profits keeps getting diluted results.

Plus a first look at two reports landing in the coming weeks. The inaugural Top 100 Queensland Builders Report, ranking the state's hundred biggest residential builders by build value, where total builds dipped but contract values climbed. And the State of Australian Land report, produced with Terralytics, mapping land price, current and future supply, and how fast land is clearing.

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In this episode:

Award wage rise to $26.44 an hour, over $1,000 a week for the first time
Payday super, and the ATO clearing house closing on 30 June
Paid parental leave reaching 26 weeks
South Australia lowering its fall height threshold to two metres
NSW DBP Act expanding to Class 3 and 9c renovation and remedial work
Loss carry back returning permanently for companies
The Queensland and NSW budgets, and what the apprenticeship data really shows

Read the full 1 July article at thegoodbuilder.com.au.

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