Page 3981 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 20 September 2017
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(i) the 2014 Docklands fire in Melbourne that caused fire damage to approximately 140 apartments; and
(ii) the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire that destroyed 120 apartments and killed 80 people; and
(j) in September 2017, the Senate Economics References Committee recommended the Australian Government implement a total ban on the importation, sale and use of polyethylene core aluminium composite panels, also known as aluminium cladding, as a matter of urgency; and
(2) calls on the ACT Government to:
(a) advise the Assembly in the first week of the 2017 October sittings:
(i) what the Government has done to address the fire safety risks associated with the use of aluminium cladding in all ACT government buildings since 2009;
(ii) what the Government has done to address the fire safety risks associated with the use of aluminium cladding in all private commercial and residential buildings since 2009;
(iii) what issues were raised by ACT officials in 2009-10 with the Australian Building Codes Board;
(iv) why the Centenary Hospital for Women and Children was built with flammable aluminium cladding; and
(v) why cladding is being removed from the Centenary Hospital for Women and Children; and
(b) provide the Assembly in the first week of the 2017 October sittings:
(i) all reports on the Centenary Hospital for Women and Children by ACT Fire and Rescue;
(ii) the recommendations of the 2017 audit of all ACT Government health buildings constructed with aluminium cladding;
(iii) the audit report of ACT government buildings; and
(iv) the Government’s plans to mitigate fire risks and related security issues associated with existing aluminium cladding on all ACT government, private commercial and residential buildings following the interim Senate Economics References Committee report on aluminium composite cladding.
We have had a lot of debate over the past few weeks about flammable aluminium cladding. It is important to note right from the outset that not all aluminium cladding is dangerous. There is a particular type that is more flammable—in fact, highly flammable—than other types. It generally involves a sandwich of aluminium with polyethylene on the inside. This is the one that we have seen, for example, to be the cause of a tragic fire at Grenfell tower in London.
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