Glen Norris, The Courier-Mail February 15, 2019 6:06am Subscriber only
THE current legal battle between Chinese construction heavyweight China Railway Construction Group and Brisbane developer Murray Thornton appears to be the end result of some very laissez-faire building regulations in the past.
City Beat readers will remember Thornton is attempting to extract $40 million from the Chinese company to pay subbies and others hit when CRCG’s joint venture CRCG-Rimfire went belly up in 2017. That money and more was guaranteed under a deed CRCG executed with the Queensland Building and Construction Commission. CRCG now says it’s not bound by the deed.
Housing and Public Works Minister Mick De Brenni tells City Beat that under the old rules the QBCC had no power to reject such a deed, or require evidence the money would indeed be repaid.
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