The National Plumbing Associations Alliance (NPAA) represents Master Plumbers Association organisations across the country in Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland, Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory.

Over the past couple of years the NPAA has grown in strength, working on the excellent co-operative relationships that exist between member organisations. This had led to the adoption of a unified NPAA policy position in the areas of licensing; qualifications and regulation. That position is that NPAA should strive to achieve:-

• uniformity in national licensing of plumbing contractors;
• uniformity in national regulation; and
• uniformity in national training delivery.

Whilst these goals may seem altruistic and extremely difficult to achieve, they nonetheless are the underpinning policy that drives the work of NPAA in making submissions to both State/Territory and Federal Governments on these issues. Of more recent times NPAA submitted a consolidated view on Award Modernisation to the Australian Industrial Relations Commission, supported the adoption of a National Single Agency model for National Licensing and supported the adoption of the Plumbing Code of Australia (PCA) by all States and Territories under a National Construction Code where the PCA has equal standing with the Building Code of Australia (BCA), but not consolidated into the BCA.