Cladding first hit the headlines in Australia when a late-night cigarette set the Melbourne’s Lacrosse tower ablaze in 2014.
In the aftermath, builder LU Simon was ordered to pay $5.7 million in damages.
Three years later and half a world away, the disastrous Grenfell Tower fire in London cost 72 lives, the deadliest residential fire in the UK since the Blitz, and propelling the cladding issue on to the global stage.
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