"Thats correct Wazbee. 3 times would be correct. Layers of contractors all taking a slice/cut for literally doing nothing but checks...for some very very simple "sheds" in most cases."
Rubbish...the major builders were paid 20% to hand out the contracts to the smaller builders,make sure everyone that applied got some work and was paid and they provided OH&S supervisors and management.
Basically run the whole show for the government.
Don't know where you got 3x the price from.