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Business / Sydney, NSW

Brick shortage prompts $4 million sweetener to get factory reopened

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Housing Construction IndustryPoliticsState and Territory ParliamentGovernment and Politics

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  • the headline was changed: Second Brick plant no quick fix for WA housing shortage prompts $4 million sweetener to get factory reopened

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Western Australia's state government will pay up to $4 million to Austral Bricks to reopen its plant in the state.

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ABC News (Business)as they published this story 9.9

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