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Urban Spaceman said:
2. I am not racist, but the four or five different CTTT senior staff I had dealings with in my matter all had foreign names and heavily foreign accents. IE English was not their first language and my perception is that did not fully understand my problem or the foibles of life in a strata here. How can they? If they have only experienced a year or two or even three or four of life in Australia?
Urban
I always cringe when someone starts a sentence with the words “I'm not racist, but …” because whatever comes next is rarely going to end up in a good place. But we know you are a good a decent soul so can I just say that regardless of whether the strata laws were in English, Urdu or Swahili, the problem occurs when anyone tries to establish common sense and logic to them. Even strata managers and CTTT adjudicators struggle to fully comprehend let alone explain Strata laws and regulations because the intent and the practice are often contradictory.
Maybe, to prove their value, Fair Trading should be trying to make the laws and regulations understandable to anyone in any language that's spoken in Australia … but first they'd have to unravel their own work, wrapped up and coded, as it is, in impenetrable bureaucratese.