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Melbourne’s Spencer St fire shows – yet again – the property sector’s version of ‘thoughts and prayers’ is not enough

The fire at the Neo 200 building on Spencer Street in the Melbourne CBD this week has eerie similarities to the Grenfell Tower disaster. Fortunately, instead of 72 people dead, as at Grenfell, only one person was hospitalised for smoke inhalation.

Nevertheless, the building industry has responded straight from the Grenfell song sheet.

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