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The masseuse clearly needs a waiting room. The police are being bamboozled by technically poor guideline matters very difficult to deal with on the fly in a highly charged emotional situation. refer: – https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-31/sydney-news-group-fined-for-breaching-covid-isolation/100419824.

It is absurd for clients to wait in a shared hallway.

The masseuse also needs to have actioned this link procedure – https://www.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/covid-safe/beauty-and-other-services – not that I know anything I am just trying to make sense out of “Gladys’s  & co”  on the fly rules.

The police shouldn’t be deciding on these matters; it is the job  of a local magistrate or community legal aid – if anyone could actually talk to them nowadays.

PS thanks for raising these topics it is helpful to see what’s going on – out there

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Great & clear POD – I do wonder if some DOH NSW could actually listen to this content to get a better idea of of strata living.
I only lived in strata temporarily before I started going “crazy”. But still a sensible system for a world with 8+Billion persons.
Great that you are advocating for these schemes (and the residents) to make them more habitable for human beings and even their pets.
I am not clear;  when talking about public health aren’t we referring to public mental health as well? Thanks to Jimmy, Sue & Jane particularly in this POD.

ps it is unusual to listen to a public something that isn’t full of double-talk and smokescreens

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TPODs experience is the very one that discouraged me from ”going strata”.

Can only applaud the concise advice from JimmyT [broken hyperlink removed] on this topic.

Cuts out the emotional aspect…homes in on the core …..

 

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Watched the video – think I’d just get all the dollies fitted and the owner would turn up –

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This situation is not dissimilar in nature to my mothers a few years ago except she was living in her own property [nb I didn’t have Power of Attorney]. Because no PoA, it was necessary for me to apply to the https://www.gov.uk/courts-tribunals/court-of-protection (COP) to be made a deputy to manage my Mum’s Property and Financial (P&F) matters….it took a couple of years, a few £thousand plus a specialist COP solicitor but made it in the end without her harming herself in the kitchen (gas & electricity !!) etc….eventually (2 years) she had to go into 24×7 care as she was diagnosed with dementia.

BTW I think Scotland has it’s own COP, but not certain. If the mother in this case has a lease or other agreement with the Strata, then if her mental capacity can be assessed (happens in the COP process) to allow other person(s)to make P&F decisions on her behalf. This is what being a COP deputy allowed me to do.

I used to get the [none of your business” attitude from authorities] as well until I became the COP deputy. Amazing what that single piece of paper achieved. This all happened in the London area, I spent about 5 years travelling from Australia to sort things. On retrospect glad I didn’t just leave it re above comment “feedback we are getting is that you can’t do much until something awful happens “. Also perhaps read https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/dementia/legal-issues/ for more info.

ps there is also a COP process to obtain a Personal Welfare deputyship, this is even more involved my solicitor informed me and did not take this path (relied on the Property and Financial affairs deputyship only)
pps I can provide solicitor contact details privately if requested for England only.

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I don’t live in strata, and made a decision some years ago not to do so because of similar matters such as these. So perhaps I should mind my own business; anyway here is my six pence worth.

Technically I agree with scotlandx, but on a more personal/individual note though there is the societal matter of personal<->communal responsibility.

(Normally) outside the confines of the strata it is the responsibility of the owner to pick up. Why should inside the ”communal strata zone” be any different? This applies to general littering as well I think.

If you own a dog that’s your job (to pick up). If you don’t want to do that job, hire someone to do your dirty work or just don’t own/walk a dog.

 

 

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Thanks Jimmy glad I never signed up with AirBNB which I had been considering earlier in year……your article is very helpful – time for AirBNB to come back to earth – had a good run haven’t they?

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Yes interesting topic this one – in a democratic society – equability seems the key here in being able to programme the lift to provide service to all floors on a fair basis to all residents. The lift in question seems to be obeying some ‘minimum distance to travel’ approach from what is described.

All lift systems would be similar in configuration nature (except the v.old ones – thanks for Jimmy’s research on wikipedia re the lift algorithm he discovered.

Would be very surprised if a simple queuing mechanism could not be adopted servicing floors in requested order…..that is where Jimmy’s suggestion re Fair Trading and NCAT comes in – 

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Yes Jimmy and all, it does seem a bit harsh expecting someone who can’t afford to pay – but personal responsibility is the over-riding factor here – crowdfunding maybe a solution.

I doubt whether this is a parallel but my father did knocked a wall over whilst driving once – it made him realise he shouldn’t be driving any more – and gave it away as a result – it probably gave him, and maybe others a few years more life as a result of vacating the drivers seat at 80yrs. That’s the big picture here maybe?!

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I can’t comment on the specific matters in regard to kids – but two/ nay three points

1) Cities are crowded places these types of matters are surely inevitable – maybe some stratas should have restrictions built in for kids etc – I don’t know – obviously a long-term fix that.

2) I used to live on an acreage our nearest neighbours were 300-400m away from the nearest other property – we still got kiddy noise when they were real excited – just after school finished for a couple of hours in summer. It ended eventually – the renters moved on – the other kids grew up – took a few years though – complaining never worked – always exacerbated the situation and generally resulted in worse behaviour than ever. Sometimes a joint approach with others affected helped a little – not always.

3) Currently live in a terrace – nearby smokers (we are non-smokers and are very sensitive to smoke within a 50m radius I reckon) and excitable dogs who bark a lot is the present bugbear……we just put up with it – it is the price of living in suburbia I think….oh btw the smoker just sold up and moved on – hurray..

Isn’t this all part of living in cities/places/the world – problems generally aren’t solved on the outside anyway…..but moving into philosophy now…

Just a lot of my opinions remember,

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Thanks Scotlandx, Ploughing through Fair Trading doco…..very handy….I should have read this first I think….

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