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Would applying for a mediation via fair trading affect my admission to the committee?
That is very much up to all the other owners (not just the committee). The current committee might stand as a block to try to keep you out but there’s only an election if the owners at a general meeting decide to have fewer seats on the committee than there are candidates.
If there is any hostility at the AGM, explain to other owners that you are trying to save them money rather than cost them, as neglecting the legally enforceable responsibility to maintain common property costs more in the long run because problems get worse (and are therefor more expensive to fix) and then there’s the whole question of the social and financial cost of the committee having to be dragged to Fair Trading and NCAT just to get them to do their job.