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In the ACT and possibly similar elsewhere, a special resolution is required to form a committee of more than 7 members. The reason for this is that more than 7 on a committee can get a bit unwieldy. I tend to prefer committees with about 5 members – large enough to get a variety of perspectives but small enough to get through business reasonably efficiently.
Another way to handle this would be to have a small committee, perhaps just three since you have to have a chair, secretary and treasurer. A general meeting could pass a resolution to direct the small committee that certain classes of decisions of the owners corporation have to be taken to a general meeting. You could have it so that general meetings are required to decide all but the most routine and uncontroversial matters. The rules about notice to all owners, distribution of minutes etc that apply to general meetings would then apply to most of the meetings and all owners would be entitled to attend and vote.