Reforms to clear New South Wales buildings of flammable cladding have been stymied by inconsistency and confusion and, after four years, information on the safety of known affected buildings is inadequate and unreliable.
A scathing auditor-general report handed down on Wednesday also found the implementation of the reforms by the NSW government and its Cladding Taskforce had been too slow.
Three years after Melbourne's Lacrosse tower blaze and within weeks of the fatal inferno fuelled by flammable cladding in London’s Grenfell Tower in 2017, the government introduced a 10-point plan—including the establishment of the taskforce.
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