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That sounds too familiar.
We, too, had a young woman living downstairs from us, having her friends staying frequently for long evenings spent on her balcony, chatting, laughing, drinking, smoking.
We have a noise diary over 5 pages long and it went all the way via verbal complaints to her, her agent, her landlord, strata and finally mediation.
The straw that broke our neck was one of the mediation staff saying that if we couldn’t tolerate her noise then apartment living “probably wasn’t for [us]”.
First thing she did after the mediation was having another hours-long session.
We ended up moving out because we both developed anxiety and stress because we wouldn’t know if we had a quiet evening or not.
Sadly, current Australian law does not support quiet tenants much.