00:00It's another day on the tools for Candice Arnell.
00:06At 40 years old, she's switched careers from retail to carpentry, bringing with her a unique set of qualities.
00:14We are more risk-averse, so we're going to consider safety in our environment.
00:20That's just how we are. We walk through life thinking about our own safety.
00:24Bronte Ryan was studying nursing when she also had a change of heart.
00:29Mum was always like, someone should be a carpenter. She likes stuff done around the house.
00:34And I was like, you know what, I'll give it a go.
00:36As build times blow out statewide, it's women like this the construction industry is trying to attract.
00:43We need more boots on the ground if we're going to build more houses. That's just simple arithmetic.
00:50The latest figures show the time it takes to build a new home in New South Wales hasn't recovered since the pandemic.
00:56For a detached house, it now takes on average 12 months to complete a new build, compared to nine months a decade before.
01:03And for apartment complexes, you can expect to wait three years, compared to two years before the pandemic.
01:11In September, the state government passed legislation designed to cut red tape.
01:16But with that not due to come into effect for some time, women and migrant workers are being touted as the solution.
01:24There's a huge opportunity there. You just need to tap into and start working with them, scale, upscale and see what is needed.
01:34Only 13% of the sector is made up of women.
01:39To boost those numbers, workers say flexible work hours should be offered.
01:44Doing just the four day work week, that would be so much easier than trying to secure the extra days of daycare.
01:53Smashing the gyprock ceiling one nail at a time.
01:57Smashing the gyprock cinema.
02:12Smashing the gyroadingian poets.
02:15So during an early days, highlight some cotton theory that holds a strong size of the eruption.
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