But as for which one is better than the other – I don’t think that’s relevant. Each state has its own problems and as long as base our thinking on false equivalences – something of which I have probably been guilty, too – progress will be hard. Each also has its own solutions and that’s what we should be looking at.
Largely agree that a lot of that dialogue can be irrelevant or pointless. Painting a picture of entire jurisdictions based on anecdotes about individual buildings isn’t particularly useful. They can be useful if the context and framework that led to the failure is known, and highlighted. Though for any owner advocacy groups it could be very relevant. Australia does not have strong owner (and resident) representation.
There probably isn’t any advocacy group in Australia that has a membership in the tens of thousands otherwise this would be well known or stated somewhere. This is a problem as there are >3million strata/community titled properties and >300 thousand strata schemes across the country.
Industry lobby groups and carefully selected government executives have the tables tilted against owners (and residents) all across Australia, as well as other parts of the world. Advocacy groups should cherry-pick the best initiatives from different jurisdictions and focus on highlighting the disparities rather than shying away from them.