the decisions made by the committee
I read the OP’s post a bit differently. More that it was:
the previous inspectors did not highlight the non-compliant issues
Unfortunately this happens all the time. It’s commonplace in all my stratas I would say. The reason is that fire safety compliance can be very subjective. And inspectors are not always very qualified or thorough.
Strictly speaking, I doubt a single strata building exists in Australia that is fully complaint. Even if you use the same inspection company, they can unexpectedly report matters that even their own company missed for years on end.
It’s the nature of the beast, so to speak. It’s very subjective, opinionated and the only reference used will be current standards which change all the time.
Slowly, the whole fire safety compliance industry is being regulated.
But is that what we need? Even more regulation?
In this area, perhaps, we do.