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I’m not sure that strata voting is compulsory in Queensland although there is a limit on the number of proxies you can hold and there is detailed voting on each issue built into the proxy forms. If you introduce compulsory voting you will only shore up the block voting in favour of whoever happens to be chair or secretary and sets the agenda. What you really want is compulsory thinking … and that’s a lot harder to organise.
Not all ECs are corrupt and evil – far from it.
Demanding that the office-bearers of large strata plans have a modicum of training actually increases their “duty of care’ because they can’t then hide behind “I didn’t know” when they are caught out.
If you take an attitude that the evil geniuses of the strata world will find a way around every good idea (except yours) we will get nothing done. The majority of people in strata are a) decent and honest and b) just want the powers that be to get on with it and not damage the value of their homes or the quality of their lives.
The politicians and civil servants behind these changes want fewer rules, not more, and right or wrong, that is what we will get.