“You cannot spend a dollar in housing until you have invested a dollar in civil infrastructure.” Civil infrastructure is the foundation of Australia’s progress and prosperity. It plays a critical role in addressing the nation’s housing needs, supporting the transition to renewable energy, and enhancing overall productivity. However, it remains the missing link. Before a [...]
CCF Core Skills List Submission
Strategic Review of the Australian Apprenticeship Incentive System
The Civil Contractors Federation (CCF) has welcomed the 2024-25 Budget, providing 65 new infrastructure projects worth $4.1b, assurance of the $120b Infrastructure Investment Program and Commonwealth’s recognition of the critical link between civil infrastructure, housing supply and community. These new and existing infrastructure projects, for roads, bridges, water, and sewerage alongside the Federal Government’s $1b [...]
Australia’s peak voice for the civil construction industry, the Civil Contractors Federation (CCF), has welcomed the announcement for the 2024-2025 Federal Budget to inject $90.6 million to boost the number of skilled workers in the construction and housing sector with migration streamlining to support housing enabling infrastructure. “The timing for this boost is very much [...]
Electricity and Energy Sector Plan Submission
Under Best Practice Industry Conditions (BPIC) procurement guidelines, you can earn $200,000 per year once having completed two days of training as a stop/go traffic controller on a civil site under policies that are operating or under consideration. That's more than double the salary of most registered nurses, police officers, and teachers. As an added [...]
Australia’s peak voice for the civil construction industry, the Civil Contractors Federation (CCF), has supported the work and progress to get to net carbon zero emissions and the EPBC legislative review process it has participated in. “The Civil Contractors Federation Australia supports in principle the legislative review and the creation of a National Environmental Protection [...]
Australia’s peak voice for the civil construction industry, the Civil Contractors Federation (CCF), has called on a national rethink of housing infrastructure policy in the wake of new Net Overseas Migration numbers coupled record declines in housing activity. “The release of the latest population numbers present a shocking reality that the nation simply is busting [...]
There is a clear freefall in the rate of housing activity, which comes at the worst possible time on the back of Net Overseas Migration rising to rates not seen since post world war 2. Housing and particularly the money shot solutions being a key in a door or a housing estate with a ribbon [...]
