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There are always ways of getting around laws and by-laws – just as there are ways of enforcing them creatively.
If you are in a block that has a legal obligation not to allow lets of 30 days and someone plays fast and loose with the rules (as described by Lady P) then you reciprocate in kind. The law is on your side but you don’t have to go to court every time you want to enforce it.
Lift and door security tags can be routinely cancelled when short-stay letting is suspected. Locked-out holidaymakers can be given the mobile number of the owners.
Let the rogue landlord pursue the owners corp through NCAT to enforce their “right” to break the rules.
If you do want to get proactive, Notices to Comply can be issued and fines pursued over breaches of short-stay letting by-law breaches (max $1,100 for the first offence, $2,200 for repeat offences).
Orders and fines (max $550) are sought at NCAT for failure to register tenants and/or provide by-laws to new tenants (max $550).
Basically, you legally make the rogue landlord and the illegal guests’ lives as uncomfortable as possible until the problem shifts to a building that doesn’t care.