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If there is no stand-alone motion for the determination of the number of SC members then your AGMs are not being conducted according to the Act which requires that the decision be made after the nominations for election are accepted.
Regarding the elephant outside the room, Section 13 of Schedule 2 of the Act (below) says “an owner … is entitled to attend the meeting”.
If you can’t physically get into the room, then you have not been allowed to attend. And while this would not be enough to overturn decisions made at any single meeting, you can show a pattern of behaviour that has systematically excluded non committee members from attending.
So, what you do is put up a motion to the next strata committee meeting that they find suitable premises that allow the meeting to be held and for non-members to sit in reasonable comfort.
Being expected to bring a chair isn’t such a big deal but not having enough room to accommodate everyone who wants to go is. There are plenty of rentable office spaces or club rooms around, if there is no adequate space in your building.
An owner or, if the owner of a lot is a corporation, any company nominee of that corporation is entitled to attend a meeting but is not entitled to address the meeting unless authorised to do so by resolution of the strata committee.