I think strata managers would be well down the list for a Royal Commission, even in the strata industry, after developers, builders and certifiers.
What we really need is an investigation of how this whole industry has been allowed to evolve the way it has over the past quarter of a century, with politicians ranging from the blatantly corrupt to the incompetent and clearly unengaged.
The ridiculous situation whereby NCAT can issue orders but not penalise miscreants for ignoring them is indicative of the slapdash, who cares? attitudes successive governments have to strata.
Get strata out of Fair Trading and into either a Housing super-Ministry or into the Department of Justice (alongside NCAT, as they have in Queensland) and we can start making some real and effective changes.
And as for strata managers, maybe it’s time we had a Tripadvisor for them too (ain’t gonna happen).