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There seems to be a lot of debate and considerable disparity between the states and individual strata professionals about the rights and wrongs of supplying owners’ email addresses.
The law in most if not all states requires that all records of the Owners Corporation be made available to all owners. As you will see from other posts here, some interpret that to include email addresses, others don’t.
The “No” argument is that emails are not part of the strata roll therefore they are not required to be passed on as part of the information package and to do so would breach the Privacy Act.
The other argument is that Owners Corporations with an annual turnover of less that $3 million a year don’t come under the Privacy Act in any case, and that email addresses and even phone numbers constitute part of the record of the Owners Corporation.
I suspect there is also an element of strata managers not wishing to discourage owners from providing email addresses as they make life so much easier as well as saving hectares of trees.
Meanwhile, I guess until some brave soul applies to NCAT to demand access to their OC’s email addresses, then we will have to take our best guess.
Anyway, I have transferred over the above posts from another topic for your perusal and edification.