Mr. James Benson:

I am happy to take that and I welcome the Senator's question. We have outlined the site servicing and activation of land as being key impediments, as it currently stands. We have previously sought an extension of initiatives, such as the site services fund which purely concentrated on roads and critical infrastructure such as water and waste water. There are other elements in terms of treatment of our lands, such as when we saw the move for a national development plan for brownfield sites which creates its own problems from contamination and soil stabilisation that is needed within those developments. It is not just about the critical infrastructure. We see from some of the assessments we have done on lands that are available and will be available in forthcoming plans that in some cases, only 25% of those future lands are currently serviced. That will bring its challenge as the new plan unveils and we look forward to what will be contained within the national development plan review for funding on that critical infrastructure.

There are other areas. I will invite my colleague, Mr. Parlon, to talk about one of the other constraints around labour and efficiencies that we could probably see. It is an important issue in the context of the constraints on the industry with regard to labour. It is recognised that a number of our own members and those within the industry have sought to go for 90 or 60 units because - I think everyone would agree - strategic development is not just 100 units. Strategic developments, in parts of our regions and rural areas, could be only 20 or 30 units. They have had to go down that route. In many cases, that is all that is viable or economic. That is what the need and demand in certain cases is. It is very important we see what the local interests and needs are. The expertise is with the planning authorities in those locations in terms of what should happen in those areas. I invite my colleague, Mr. Parlon, to speak on the labour issues.