Senate debates

Thursday, 28 February 2013

Questions without Notice

Building Materials Imports

2:53 pm

Photo of John MadiganJohn Madigan (Victoria, Democratic Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

On a second supplementary, in light of the fact that these substandard imported building products appear to be being utilised extensively, even in the construction of new government department buildings—for example, the apparently imported glass window panels in the ASIO building, which kept falling to the ground and are reportedly 30 per cent delaminated even before the public servants have arrived for their first day of work there—can the government provide details of how it intends to improve the current procedures which allow these substandard materials to enter Australia?

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