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February 7, 2019 By subbiesu Leave a Comment

Couple devastated as builder goes bust

Fighting for Subbies Rights

Bill Hoffman, Sunshine Coast Daily

February 7, 2019 7:28am

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IN 2013 Beau Harthshorn was undertaking the biggest contract the landscaping business he owned with his wife Kerry had ever secured.

Life was good and left them totally unprepared for the devastation to come.

The couple lived on acreage at Pomona with their children, four-year-old son Jett and 12-year-old Macey who both owned ponies.

PREMIER KNEW JM KELLY COLLAPSE LOOMED

HOW GOVERNMENT KEPT ROGUE BUILDER AFLOAT

POLICE, ASIC HAD EYES ON FAILED BUILDER

WARNING SIGN THAT NEARLY COST SUBBIE HIS BUSINESS

A mortgage on the property provided the cashflow to sustain the business between progress payments from builders.

Many small business subcontractors operate in the same manner.

10 biggest builder collapses in Australia

Beau's a smart guy. Earthscapes had 10 employees and there were a couple of other good jobs to follow.

Kerry and Beau met when he was 17 and she 16. Kerry worked with Beau's mum.

They were confident. The contract was with what they thought was a profitable national construction company for national retailer Wesfarmers.

The project was the Nambour Coles supermarket. Earthscapes had done what it was contracted to and was owed more than $500,000.

Read the article about the Walton Construction victims here, its another building and banking tale of disgraceful behaviour at the expense of dozens of subbies.

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SubbiesUnited is not “anti builder”, we support strong builders.
We are “anti theft” of hard working subbies money.

It’s not just about the builders who go broke, businesses all over Australia Liquidate every day for a variety of reasons.

It’s about the ones that engage in calculated criminal behaviour such as providing false information to the regulators or inducing subbies to work on a site when they know they cannot or are not going to pay them because of a fraudulent scheme. Its about the participation of the banks, pre insolvency advisors and builder appointed Liquidators to fraudulently defeat creditors.

Liquidators should always be appointed by creditors to ensure a thorough investigation takes place.

We want the rogues investigated and prosecuted for fraud so our goal is to pressure the Queensland Government to set up a fully funded Police Task Force to investigate and prosecute Construction Industry fraud.


  • SubbiesUnited was created to provide subbies with collaborative information on building companies that are showing signs of insolvency or struggling to pay their creditors. The signs are always there, we just need to get the message to each other before it happens.
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  • The construction industry is renowned for building companies setting up illegal Phoenix operations, shifting assets, then liquidating sending subbies broke. We work with other subcontractor & supplier organisations & Governments to stop what amounts to legalised theft on a massive scale though pre packaged liquidations. Insolvency is used as a means to defraud Subbies.
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