The advice provided by the Office of Fair Trading is correct, probably because the Minutes can usually be read in conjunction with the Agenda – although I would have thought that any Strata Manager worth the money the Owners Corporation pays to them would make the extra effort to cut-and-paste the Agenda Items into the Minutes document.
I don’t understand why so many posts to FlatChat speak to Strata Managers doing as they choose, and with those Owners present at a General Meeting (in your example) permitting them to do so; talk about the tail wagging the dog!
But now that the tail’s been wagged…. on the assumption that the “large majority” that voted down the block of Motions represented more than 50% or 75% as the case may be of those Owners entitled to vote, all that you and like-minded Owners can practically do is to write to the Strata Manager to express your collective dissatisfaction, and to vote against accepting the Minutes at the next General Meeting.
A somewhat impractical option may be to apply for Orders to invalidate the vote/s taken at the General Meeting under Sect 153 or 154; depending of course on the size of that “large majority”.
PS – just had a further thought. An Application for Orders may just get-up, as from what you’ve said the Strata Manager would be unable to emphatically state what the votes for and against the Motions were. (1635hrs)