Whoopi – you consistently refer to receiving information from “strata” – do you mean the strata manager or building manager or the strata committee (or someone else)?
This is all really a matter of the protocols in your building where your strata manager, building manager or strata committee officers aren’t organised well enough to give you reasonable warning of the need for access.
If this is a serious enough issue for you, then you could refuse access unless it is accompanied by an order from NCAT. Or to put it another way, the Owners Corp is entitled to gain access to your unit under certain circumstances but if you refuse, they have to get an order from the Tribunal to enforce that right.
Now, having said that, there may well be circumstances where you don’t wish to impede the workmen or whatever – but you do want to have reasonable notice provided.
So let’s get back to what you really want – which I believe is sufficient notice.
Now, using the guidelines provided by Lady P, go to your committee and propose a motion for the next committee meeting that they adopt protocols for non-emergency meetings along the lines suggested.
The strata manager (or building manager or whatever “the strata” is) can only do as the owners corp, as represented by the strata committee, instructs and there is no reason an owner should be given less notice than a tenant.
So tell the committee what you want and tell them that if you don’t see a bit more consideration in this regard, you will not be permitting access without an order from NCAT.
If you want, you can get into issues of privacy and who should be getting your phone number etc etc – but there’s little to be gained by that if all you really want is a bit more notice than you have been getting.