Sarah Hobday-North reflects on the recent ACA Castlemaine Regional Architecture symposium. The two-day event sparked frank, ...

Perhaps it’s South Australia’s proud free settler status that shapes our government’s strong focus on matters of legality, ...

For more than 30 years, Smartsoftware has been helping architecture practices streamline their business systems and project ...

The 2025 Association of Consulting Architects (ACA) Salary Survey Report outlines key findings from the August 2025 survey, providing comprehensive comparisons with the 2023 baseline data. The ...

What does your role at Management for Design entail? As a Founding Director of Management for Design (M4D), my work revolves around helping businesses improve financial and operational performance. I ...

The ACA NSW/ACT Committee has submitted a response to the NSW Legislative Council’s Public Accountability and Works Committee review of the Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020. The submission ...

The ACA’s IR advisor Fair Work Lawyers explains the three separate rates of pay for each classification in the Architects Award – an annual rate, weekly rate and hourly rate – and advises on how to ...

The Victorian government introduced legislation into Parliament in June 2025 to amend the Domestic Building Contracts Act 1995. Significant changes have been proposed, which will affect contract rules ...

We are pleased to share the ACA’s new membership brochure, a colourful, easy-to-read booklet that outlines the many ways the ACA supports and advocates for Australian architecture practices. It ...

A recent decision of the Federal Court has unsettled longstanding employer practices in relation to two key areas: the capacity for set-off clauses to cover award entitlements for salaried employees; ...