On a technical note for Victoria, I note that each time my committees are elected (at each AGM) there is another motion that delegates the functions and duties of the secretary to the strata manager. That’s in the rest of s.107:
107 Secretary of committee The members of the committee must appoint a member of the committee or the manager of the owners corporation to be the secretary of the committee.
It seems that many strata managers in Victoria prefer it that way.
So Victorian strata committees, at least in my experience, where a strata manager exists, tend to be comprised of the chairperson and the rest of the committee.
The committee chairperson technically doesn’t have that much more authority than other committee members. They can also call meetings and have a casting vote but that’s about it. In reality however, they tend to be the main point of contact for the OC and are the main interface to the manager.