Look, we know it’s all done and dusted. David Chandler has re-extended his contract as NSW Building Commissioner, John Minns is back as Property Services Commissioner and Victor Dominello has returned as Fair Trading Minister (for now).In short, the band is back together and former Fair Trading Minister Eleni Petinos - the Yoko Ono of the strata Beatles – has retreated to Miranda where her skills and character are more fully appreciated.However, we can’t let it lie. Premier Perrottet insists, Eleni was not sacked because Big Dave and the “other Minns" resigned. But they definitely would not have performed their synchronised 180s, which would have done ice-dancers proud, if she was still there.So forgive us if we take one final poke at that recent example of political roadkill to see where the tyre tracks lead.Elsewhere in the pod, Jimmy comes up with an idea for a fast-track Fair Trading dispute resolution system, based on common sense and … um … Judge Judy.And we try to make sense of an almost incomprehensible report by four universities for the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) which comes to the stunning conclusion that developers want to make money on their projects.Who knew?It also claims that unpredictability makes developers nervous and they need more certainty form government but government probably can’t provide it. Or something like that. Judge for yourself here.And we celebrate a small but significant success by one of our Flatchatters in bringing his strata block back from the edge of the cliff of chaos.All that and more in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap.TRANSCRIPT IN FULLJimmy 00:00I got a very pleasant message from David Chandler, the other day.Sue 00:03Did you?Jimmy 00:04Well, everybody got a message from David Chandler, but it said some nice things... I can't say it said it about me, but the subject line on this email was 'Jimmy Flat Chat,' and it said how great it was to have support among people who actually cared and wanted the whole development thing to be better. So we're going to be talking about how he is back and why he is back; all that stuff. But we're also going to talk about the mess that the previous Fair Trading Minister left, before she got shown the door. We're going to talk about a report from AHURI, The Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute. Now, they brought a report and I have got to be honest, I don't actually understand what it means, but we'll have a chat about it. And we'll talk about some measures that places are taking, to try and get more rental accommodation available. And we'll talk about a couple of things that have come up in the forum. I'm Jimmy Thomson, I write the Flat Chat column for the Australian Financial Review.Sue 01:16And I'm Sue Williams and I write about property for Domain.Jimmy 01:19And this is the Flat Chat Wrap.[MUSIC]JimmyOkay, Eleni Petinos, the former short-lived, Fair Trading and Small Business minister... Now, there's been a lot of stories around about this. About a month ago, she was relieved of her ministry by the Premier, Dominic Perrottet. He said it was because of allegations of bullying and because there was a report about to come out, about bullying and s
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Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.
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