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I can’t see how the Vexatious Proceedings Act 2014 (VIC) could help? That seems to me to be about litigants continually commencing legal action for vexatious reasons. The OP’s situation is the reverse – they are the ones that are forced to start the action.
AFAIK there’s no rule in the OC Act (VIC) that requires an owner to inform the OC that their lot is vacant. I can’t see that it affects OC building insurance although it probably affects lot contents insurance.
There is a new vacancy tax recently introduced into parts of Melbourne: https://www.sro.vic.gov.au/node/6094
As per the link in post #5, an OC in Victoria is very limited on how it can charge fees for levy debt recovery:
Note: An owners corporation cannot charge a lot owner any other fees or charges, such as an ‘administration fee’, for overdue owners corporation fees.
Strictly speaking, AFAIK, only VCAT can approves such costs. What one of my OCs in Victoria does is to approve a motion at each AGM for debt recovery costs to be charged against the lot. That means the strata manager is approved to actually do that and the in-debt lot owner would have to challenge the costs at VCAT. It does seem to work. The debt recovery costs would have to be reasonable.