Bathla's collapse brings old building complaints back into view
A Current Affair pairs a former site foreman's account of cost-cutting with archive footage of an apartment owner's fallen ceiling.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 42,358 views a day, 15 times a normal first day on this channel (2,905).
Inside the collapse of Bathla
A Current Affair returns to footage of a collapsed apartment ceiling as it examines the collapse of property developer Bathla. Alongside that earlier report is Craig Walker, a former Bathla site foreman, describing what he says happened on building sites.
"If they thought they could get away with not doing something to save money, that was the first option," Walker says.
The Short, titled "Inside the collapse of Bathla," drew about 42,000 views in its first day, roughly fourteen times the program's usual start for that format. Its focus is the construction complaints that preceded the company's failure, rather than the financial mechanics of the collapse.
In the archival footage, apartment owner Levin points out where her ceiling fell. The program dates that report to a decade earlier, placing a resident's experience beside Walker's account of practices behind the scenes. Walker also describes trying to raise concerns and being discouraged from speaking out.
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- Channel
- A Current Affair
- Subscribers
- 837,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 2,047,408
- Channel views, pace per day
- 344,624 (on a normal day: 325,673)
- Video published
- October 20, 2026
- Video views so far
- 42,244 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 42,358
The numbers
The Bathla excerpt drew a much larger first-day audience than A Current Affair's usual Short.
