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I’m sorry but you are completely missing the point of the original article. It said: “Strata Community Association Queensland is now leading calls for urgent regulatory intervention, arguing that individual buildings cannot shoulder the burden of managing this crisis alone.”
You said, in many different ways, that this is something that can only be handled by Fair Trading or other government bodies, and not by strata schemes. It’s pretty much the same thing – except maybe you think there is no need for government intervention.
And my opinion is that I believe enough people in strata are concerned about this for them to start making bad decisions about what to do about e-vehicles. The facts about L-ion batteries are almost irrelevant – the perception is everything, especially when it comes to a vote at a strata general meeting.
And sure, maybe OCs will pass by-laws that can be challenged at the tribunal and in court – but why go to all that hassle if it can be avoided?
I actually think the risk is exaggerated and such risk as there is can be mitigated. But that isn’t going to happen by cherry-picking facts and nit-picking debates.
For instance, I think I made it pretty clear that I was talking about damaged batteries spontaneously exploding. I never said, as you imply, that any battery has the potential to do so.
Owners corporations can control what people do on common property, including activities that are legal elsewhere, such as smoking, using bad language and dressing inappropriately (to name but a few).
Oh, and by the way, comparing trains in Victoria with strata in NSW is the epitome of false equivalence. Actually comparing strata in Victoria with strata in NSW is a stretch too. The reason nobody is even considering this in Victoria (if that is the case) is that there is no forum there for them to do so. The media in Victoria is so wilfully blind to strata issues that they are almost culpable in the appalling state of affairs there.
So, we get it. You are pro e-vehicles. So am I. But I don’t think “nothing to see here” is going to convince anyone. Consider this, more people have died in L-ion battery fires that have even been injured in flammable cladding blazes in Australia – and look what that did to apartments over the past few years.