At a meeting of the National Coalition of State Presidents held in Brisbane, on Friday 29th October, 2010, a National Residents' Association was formed. The new association is to be known as the Australian Retirement Village Residents Association - ARVRA.
The ACT has also this week formalised its own retirement village residents association.
ATO plans to charge GST on manufactured home parks scrapped
A concerted effort by the Residents Association of manufactured home parks has headed off the ATO which had planned to impose GST in mobile homes. This would have added 10% to the cost of the purchase of a home