Hi KayteE,
I am from Vic, and I had been in a similar situation before.
I would ask them the following awkward questions:
1. In NSW it was written in laws that any unit owner can attend Committee Meetings, why not here? Vic. OC Act requires all Committee minutes to be recorded and available for inspection by unit owners (sections 114(4), 115 OCA).
2. As the Committee Meeting helps avoid calling a Special General Meeting on those agenda items, could they exclude you from the Special General Meeing?
3. If you have the number please force the calling of a Special General Meeting with exactly the same agenda. Then they cannot exclude you from the SGM.
I have the suspicion that OCA was vague on unit owners’ right to attend Committee Meeting to make Lawyers busy and to give unfair advantage to Committee and Managing Corporation. It is similar to the kind of Legalized Corruption in QLD (Financial Review, 2020 August 01).
“Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely:. Please help fight for the rights of unit owners against abuse of power by Committees.