It seems as if every time we look away from Victoria, some thing new and awful happens in that state’s strata system.

If it wasn’t the best buildings in Melbourne being handed over wholesale to Airbnb, with no meaningful restrictions, it was the cladding fires, then the cladding remediations revealing buildings that were rotting from the inside and now we have the Aurora shambles.

This week in the Flat Chat Wrap, we pick the bones out of the fiasco surrounding Melbourne’s third-highest apartment block and wonder what, if anything, the state government is going to do about its crumbling strata and tribunal system.

And on a brighter note, Sue has discovered a Melbourne-based initiative to recycle glass as fire-proof cladding. That’s all in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap.

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Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.
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