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PHOTO:\u00a0\u00a0Building ministers have committed to implementing construction industry reforms. ABC News: Elise Pianegonda<\/strong><\/p>\n The co-author of a landmark report on how to fix Australia’s building industry has declared she would not buy a newly built apartment, given the scale of the problems.<\/p>\n “If I was going to be investing in an apartment, I’d buy an older one. It’s common sense, isn’t it? It’s just logical,” Bronwyn Weir told a Four Corners investigation into Australia’s building industry.<\/p>\n “I wouldn’t buy a newly built apartment. No.”<\/p>\n Ms Weir and former senior public servant Peter Shergold co-wrote the Building Confidence report commissioned by Australia’s federal, state and territory building ministers.<\/p>\n The report, delivered in February last year, made 24 recommendations including a crackdown on private certification of buildings and registration of every person involved in the building process.<\/p>\n