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Advocacy groups for renters, landlords back call for Victorian smoke alarm law change

Press coverage 14 November 2023 Summary of published coverage
Advocacy groups for renters, landlords back call for Victorian smoke alarm law change

A Victorian coroner recommended that rental providers be legally required to install and regularly test smoke alarms across every tenancy, after a renter died in a 2022 fire in a unit without an alarm. Tenants Victoria and PIPA deputy chair Richard Crabb both backed the change, noting that current rules exempt leases signed before March 2021, covering about 43.5 per cent of tenancies.

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Jean Bell, ABC News, 14t

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