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25.01.2022 Make a complaint: MP urges action on false builder stat decs SUNSHINE Coast, Gympie and Noosa councils have been urged to provide police evidence of false statu...tory declarations being issued in the lead-up to the collapse of Ri-Con Contractors Pty Ltd which went into liquidation last month. Ri-Con was working on contracts with all three councils when it closed owing more than 300 trade and subcontract creditors in excess of $3.6 million. Documents showed unsecured creditors had invoices outstanding for in excess of 90 days. Kawana MP Jarrod Bleijie has written to all three councils calling on them to make formal complaints to the Queensland Police Service Financial Crime and Cyber Group. It comes after the MP contacted Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll requesting a fraud investigation into allegations the builder issued false statutory declarations subcontractors had been paid ahead of the release of progress payments by the local authorities. Todd Penfold of Penfold Projects, a landscaping business engaged by Ri-Con to work on the Caloundra Tennis Centre for Sunshine Coast Council and a skate park and youth centre for Gympie Council, has been left unpaid $200,000 on the two projects. The losses have brought to $1 million the total builders going broke have cost his company in the past decade. CLICK below to read more https://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au//make-a-pol/3948735/

24.01.2022 The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is warning consumers to avoid doing business with Slacks Creek car parts supplier Jason Paul Murray and his company, J.P. & K.M.... Murray Pty Ltd, trading as Brisbane Motor Imports. The OFT investigated a number of complaints from consumers against Mr Murray and his company after they paid for engines but did not receive them. The investigation resulted in Mr Murray facing the Beenleigh Magistrates Court and pleading guilty to six charges of wrongly accepting payment under the Australian Consumer law. In June 2019, the OFT launched a new investigation after receiving further consumer complaints of similar conduct. https://www.qld.gov.au//fa/businesses-and-traders-to-avoid

22.01.2022 Payment problems start with builders REGARDING Master Builders CEO Grant Galvin’s letter (Daily, January 31) How dare you Mr Galvin. Your ill-considered comme...nts inferring that subcontractors’ lack of education is the cause of their payment problems is an insult to all 60,000 of them working in the Queensland building industry. To also dismiss the significant input of more than five years from other industry groups and departmental experts as being a vocal few with shortsighted views seeking a media grab is an affront to them and misleading nonsense. To date Master Builders’ tireless work, as you claim, really only has been to object, delay and obstruct fair reform that secures subcontractors revenue from insolvent trading schemes, bullying, misuse of market power and unfair contracts. It is fanciful in the extreme to suggest that education of subcontractors is the only panacea for these huge problems. Most subcontractors have more sophisticated processes and are far more educated than for which you give them credit. The payment problem is caused by building contractors not by subcontractors. It is Master Builders historical influence over legislation and regulation and their implacable opposition to the concept of any form of trusts that has led to the payment problems being experienced by subcontractors. As a result Master Builders must take responsibility, not unfairly reapportion blame to the victims. The use of project bank accounts has been successfully employed in other countries and their introduction here has been a recommendation from six inquiries since 1996. Trusts have also been successful in the legal, real estate and debt collection sectors and are well overdue in the Queensland building industry. There is no valid reason why the industry cannot implement both a comprehensive education process for all industry participants and project bank accounts. I suspect the real reason for the Master Builders’ letter is to create fear and confusion rather than out of any real concern for subcontractors’ welfare and is a cynical attempt to receive government funding for the education of subcontractors. The premise of the letter only serves to reinforce the urgency for the immediate introduction of project bank accounts and the exemption of Master Builders from any further input or funding to educate subcontractors. It is the Master Builders that has politicised this important issue evidenced by the crass, unsuccessful and expensive newspaper and billboard campaign prior to the last state election. Who are the silent and quiet majority you refer to if not the 60,000 bullied subcontractors who play Russian roulette with their businesses and livelihoods every time they enter into a subcontract? LES WILLIAMS, Subcontractors Alliance CLICK below to read online https://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au//payment-pr/3937178/

14.01.2022 This one is the same as the 60+ that have gone before it. They have all got the same method of execution MP calls for police probe into builder’s liquidation A ...SUNSHINE Coast MP has written to the police commissioner seeking a fraud squad investigation into the collapse of the builder Ri-Con Contractors Pty Ltd in January. The company which had contracts with Gympie, Noosa and Sunshine Coast councils went into liquidation with debts of more than $3.6 million to in excess of 300 unsecured subcontract and trade creditors. Liquidator Paul Nogueira of Worrells said many of those owed money had outstanding invoices from 60 to 90 days and beyond. Kawana MP Jarrod Bleijie wrote to Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll after meeting O’Brien Plumbing Maroochydore owner Peter King and manager Chris Bidmade. Their business was left unpaid nearly $80,000 in the Ri-Con collapse. Mr Bleijie has also signalled he would lodge a question on notice in parliament on Tuesday to Housing and Public Works Minister Mick de Brenni asking Will the Minister advise what action the Palaszczuk government is taking to protect subcontractors like O’Brien Plumbing Maroochydore who was recently left unpaid following collapse of the head contractor and lost $80,000 for work completed to ensure security of payment for subcontractors who work on projects valued below $1 million? The question was aimed at new legislation to be rolled out over the next two years that has restricted the introduction of Project Trust Accounts to protect money owed to subcontractors for projects valued at $1 million or more. Subcontractors Alliance head Les Williams said he wanted a commitment from the LNP that it would in government legislate for the immediate implementation of Project Trust Accounts. The alliance has become frustrated that Labor’s security of payment commitment in 2016 that subbies would be paid on time, in full every time would not be honoured before mid-2022. CLICK below to read more https://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au//mp-calls-f/3945013/

05.01.2022 Y’all ever repossess dirt work? Got two companies built locations for that owe about $40k total going on a year. I think it’d be a lot fun to repo a road to a cell tower on a mountain

03.01.2022 Matter of principle: Subbie spends big to get money back A CIVIL contractor owed $31,000 in retention money for work done to specification on the Caloundra Tenn...is Centre, feared it was now being used to fund Sunshine Coast Council changes to the original plans. Dave Daniels, who runs the Yandina-based Daniels Civil, an earthmoving contractor, has engaged a lawyer to enforce a subcontractor charge on the council to release the money owed to him. He said he was prepared to spend on legal costs more than the amount owed to force the issue, as a matter of principle after previously being left owed large amounts by failed builders. Under Queensland's Building Industry Fairness Act, a subcontractor's charge is a way for unpaid subbies to secure a claim over monies owed to them by a contractor. With the collapse of Ri-Con, Sunshine Coast Council held retention money that may have been owed in full or part to the builder for distributions to subbies who had completed their work to standard. Mr Daniels has questioned whether work now taking place at the tennis centre was to repair defects, or just alterations to what he said may have been poor plans provided by the council to the now failed builder Ri-Con Contractors, which was awarded the $3.9m tender for the project. He said normally where a dispute existed over work quality the industry regulator, Queensland Building and Construction Commission, was called in to adjudicate. Sunshine Coast trade suppliers and subcontractors were left unpaid by Ri-Con to the tune of more than $3.6 million for work done and materials supplied to Sunshine Coast, Noosa and Gympie council projects. Mr Daniels said the council was pulling out concrete slabs and putting in additional retaining walls and redoing other work that had been completed to plan. "Who is authorising defects," he said. "They're polishing what had been an exposed concrete entrance. Subcontractors Alliance head Les Williams said the council had an obligation to use whatever retention bond it held correctly. "Given the subcontractors charges are in place there needs to be independent oversight of how those funds are being used," he said. CLICK below to read more https://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au//subbie-ju/3955055/