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Calls for compulsory licences for Canberra tradies in bid to improve safety, quality of construction projects

In an unlikely alliance, five of Canberra's biggest construction companies have joined forces with the union to call on the ACT government to introduce trade licensing requirements for several trades.

Currently, in the ACT, workers do not need formal accreditation to call themselves a joiner, carpenter, painter, tiler, water proofer, bricklayer, glazier, or plasterer.

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