Flat Chat Wrap #17 – Promises, promises … what the pollies are offering the strata voters of NSW
Jimmy Thomson and Sue Williams discuss what the various parties are offering strata residents and owners in the run-up to the NSW state election.
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ROUNDUP: Paint or varnish? Another strata cover-up
Every so often I get the feeling that there must be a strand of DNA that makes people both nit-picking and want to live in strata. Take the post from…
Podcast: What the pollies are promising the strata voters of NSW
It’s hard to believe that we’ll be voting on Saturday (March 23) for, possibly, the first new government in NSW in eight years. It’s also hard to believe that we…
Coalition vows to make it easier to vote solar
Just when we thought the government didn’t care about strata they come up with a pre-election announcement designed to raise the high-rise feelgood factor. According to this story in the…
NSW Election special: Whose policies are best for apartment residents?
With an election in NSW next weekend (March 23), and another for the whole country just a couple of months away, apartment owners and residents who aren’t rusted on to…
Cladding clam-up as Fair Trading issues threats, rather than access to help
By Sue Williams Residents at high risk from potentially deadly flammable cladding are being denied information about what they should do to make their buildings safe, consumer advocates claim. Instead,…
Flat Chat Wrap #16 – Election fever mounts as the shadow minister speaks
Labor spokesperson for Better Regulations and Innovation (and Fair Trading) Yasmin Catley calls in on the Flat Chat podcast … and part two of the chat with OCN chair Phil…
Roundup: When ‘privacy’ is more important than unit block fire safety
I was gobsmacked this week to discover that Fair Trading have refused to even tell owners in the 400-plus buildings seriously affected by flammable cladding that there’s a seminar this…
Podcast: Talking to the woman who could be our next strata minister
We were very lucky last weekend to catch up with Labor spokesperson for Better Regulation and Innovation Yasmin Catley who, current polls suggest, is a very real prospect of being…
Strata Commissioner plan signals sea change in political thinking
The revelation this week the NSW Labor plans to create a new Strata Commissioner, should they win government, has been met with surprise and relief across the strata community. As…
Flat Chat Wrap #15 – Talking the politics of Airbnb and cladding fears with the OCN
JimmyT talks to OCN chair Phil Gall about how the Owners Corporation Network gets stuff done despite bring underfunded … and what their cladding seminar offers apartment owners
Roundup: Revenge as bullying by-law is bounced
One of our long-suffering Flatchatters took her problems with her strata committee to NCAT the other week. The dispute was all about work that the owners corp should have done…