It’s strange that you “paid a substantial amount of money – thousands of dollars – in a special levy for work to repair common property”, but the work was abandoned? The owners corporation has a strict duty under section 106 to repair common property, which cannot be overruled by any owners corporation meeting decision. If that common property needs repair, then it must be repaired.
However, under section 106(3) the owners corporation can determine, by passing a special resolution, that it is “inappropriate” to maintain some item of common property, so long as that determination does not affect the safety of anything, or does not detract from the appearance of anything (part (3)(c)).
The owners corporation cannot decide not to repair common property without such a determination. So if you have common property in need of repair, then you need to spend that special levy money to do so, and the cost or timing of the repairs is no excuse to avoid carrying out that duty.