Here’s the reality of small apartment blocks – your OC (strata) Manager probably gets about $250 per block per year from your scheme. If your building had ten times the number of units, she would get 10 times as much, for roughly the same level of grief – possibly even more since, at that level, everything is so much more personal.
What I’m saying is, if you want this done properly, then you are going to have to do it yourself.
[Section edited out, with reference to Austman’s post below]
My sense is that you need to sit down with your neighbours and explain that you all really need to start doing things properly … and that is going to cost everybody something.
I also think you are going to need to pay someone who knows Victorian strata law to explain the facts of life and what your options are. And for that, perhaps you need a new OC manager.