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The Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) has announced it will launch its new Green Star Multi-unit Residential rating tool in Brisbane on 15th April 2008.

Neutral, low-key schemes with the occasional splash of brilliant highlighting colour were a noticeable trend in this year's Dulux Colour Awards, together with an unprecedented interest in environmentally friendly projects.

You would invest your spare cash in a device that promised to cut ordinary Australians' power bills by 37 per cent by recycling `ambient electromagnetic radiation back into usable household energy', wouldn't you?

The hundreds of single storey supermarkets that are dotted throughout Australia's suburbs with large car parks could become the next target for Australia's apartment developments, building advisory service Archicentre predicted this week.

As was widely hoped, the Reserve Bank (RBA) decided to again leave the Official Cash Rate (OCR) steady at 7.25 per cent when it met this week.

After exchange of contracts, there is provision for a cooling off period. This means you can change your mind and cancel the contract. This could be for a number of reasons, one being that your pest and building report was a nightmare.