Rules & compliance · National
MSF30926 Certificate III in Shading and Security Screens has been current since 13 March 2026, and the National Training Register’s list of organisations approved to deliver it says there are no records to show. The qualification it replaced still carries three providers, one of them suspended and one approved for Victoria and Queensland only, and every one of those approvals ends on 11 March 2027.
Data
We compared two consecutive releases of the same series. July moved from plus 0.4 to plus 0.3 per cent and its level fell $14.8 million; June, May and April were revised down by progressively less. The freshest figure is the one most likely to move.
Rules & compliance · Queensland
ASIC records both as under external administration. On the same day both ABNs read Active, which is the free check most buyers would do. What the gap means if you have already paid a deposit.
Bushfire & BAL · NSW
The BAL Certificate has to say the site is not BAL-40 or BAL-FZ before a complying development certificate can issue. So the rating that makes your product necessary can also push the whole job onto a slower approval track.
Bushfire & BAL · NSW
AS 3959 costs $286.63, but the step that decides which BAL applies is not in it. Appendix 1 of Planning for Bush Fire Protection 2019 replaces Section 2 of AS 3959 for NSW, and the RFS publishes it free. What the assessment looks at, and the worst-case rule that surprises people.
Rules & compliance · National
MSF30926 Certificate III in Shading and Security Screens reached the National Training Register on 13 March 2026. In the endorsed unit for installing interior blinds, checking child safety on corded coverings is written in as a performance criterion. Who has to hold it was ruled outside the review’s scope.
Rules & compliance
Western Australia has no window-covering standard in its tenancy law. What a WA landlord owes comes from product safety law reaching back to January 2004, a general lessor duty, and the negligence warning the regulator prints itself.
Rules & compliance · National
We read the rental minimum standards of every state and territory, in the instrument or on the responsible authority's own page. Victoria's cord-anchor rule is the only one in force; NSW has announced one its consolidated regulation still does not show; WA, the ACT and the NT never mention window coverings at all.
Rules & compliance · Victoria
Every corded blind or curtain in a Victorian rental must now be anchored so no loose loop of 220 mm or more can form within 1,600 mm of the floor, whatever its age. The instrument, the advertising offence, the renter's rights, the free hardware, and the government's own costing of the fix: $7.10 a window in parts.
Safety & recalls
Model AC136-05Bi-CA, sold 1 February to 17 April 2026 under the Luxaflex and Turnils brands. Stop using it, keep it from children, free replacement from your dealer. And honestly: it is the only window-furnishings recall currently live.
Rules & compliance · NSW
The safety page points only to the federal standards, the consolidated legislation carries none of the rule's numbers, and the one instrument that could would not open. Re-checked 9 July: still not shown.
Rules & compliance · National
Two short instruments govern every corded covering in the country. The measurements, the mandated words, and the "AS/NZS 4874" the trade cites that does not exist.
Rules & compliance
Reader Room gives free access to the entire catalogue of Australian Standards, for personal, domestic or household use. Commercial use is excluded, so the homeowner reads AS 3959 free and the business that must comply pays $286.63.
Bushfire & BAL
AS 3959 decides what a compliant shutter is. What reading it costs, the free-access commitment in the May Budget, and the date nobody has published yet.
Energy & ratings
WERS is alive and covers film. WincovER, built to rate coverings, has been silent since April 2021 and its product search 404s. What a buyer can check today.
Data
Renovation activity and furnishings spending both point up; the industry estimate for local manufacturing points down, with imports taking a growing share. The demand and supply picture, state by state.
Data
Until the September quarter 2011 the CPI published an expenditure class called Floor and window coverings. The 16th series discontinued it and split it: floor coverings kept a class of their own, and window coverings were folded in with towels, sheets and tablecloths. What survives is 0.464 per cent of the basket, it has fallen while the CPI rose, and it cannot tell you the price of a blind.
Contact
Cord-safety rules are rolling through the states, recalls land without notice, and regulator pages change quietly. If you have spotted something we should verify, send a tip; identity optional, evidence welcome. Every compliance page here carries the date it was last checked against the regulation, and how this site works explains the whole method.
