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In the past five years, over 150 children under five years old drowned in Australia. 50 per cent of these drownings occured in home swimming pools. One way of ensuring pool safety is to completely isolate your pool with a secure pool fence and gate.

D&D have released their safest pool gate latch yet, with the new MagnaLatch Series 3. Built to Australian Standards, and fitted with a new lock indicator, the Series 3 comes with a Limited Lifetime Warranty. Absolute Balustrades now offer the MagnaLatch Series 3 on all our pool gates, ensuring Absolute safety for our clients and their families.

According to Business News, property developers are "upping the ante" to promote WA to Chinese investors. In the past, Sydney and Melbourne have had great success in attracting foreign investment and local developers are hoping to now promote WA as an attractive investment opportunity.

We had a great night at the 2014 SPASA WA awards, admiring some impressive and innovative designs from our local pool builders. Congratulations to Quality Dolphin Pools on their success again this year, and to all the WA winners and finalists. To view all of this years award winners visit www.spasawa.com.au.

Good news for residential builders and anyone looking at building a house at the moment. Once again, Western Australia has been rated the number one state in the HIA’s Housing Scorecard report for its residential building sector. This bi-annual publication ranks states on their performance under 14 different criterion including; detached house building, multi-dwelling building, renovations, construction labour force, housing finance and turnover of established homes. WA came out on top in the numbers of housing loans to first-home buyers, new detached housing under construction and established home and multi-unit sales.