Podcast: Look back and laugh with our podcom
It’s interesting listening to the podcom Hyperbole Towers – the podcast comedy we recorded almost four years ago – to hear how much has changed.There’s a reference in there to…
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Poll: What would it take to get you to an AGM?
Are you an AGM tragic – turning up for every general meeting like a strata stalker- or would you have to be sedated and abducted by your strata committee to…
Forum: Broken fence lets dog get at next-door cat
This week’s lead post has a tragic (and nasty) pet story at its heart as well as a twisty fence angle that will have all our legally minded Flatchatters intrigued.…
A funny thing happened on the way to the podcast
OK, I admit it – we’ve been in holiday mode. Could we have cobbled together a podcast on Sunday morning after New Year’s Eve (or Hogmanay, as we call it…
Podcast: How a lockdown had a silver lining
Are you stuck at home because state borders aren’t as open as they want us to think, or you can’t go anywhere until your covid test results come out? Maybe…
Online strata committee elections – the result is in
We all thought Covid-19 and Zoom meetings were behind us until Omicron emerged to scare the bejayzus out of us all over again. And with the prospect that we may…
Forum: Online meetings fail election connection
Here’s a juicy little conundrum that’s very much of our times. Last year the government changed strata laws so that we could all hold meetings by Zoom or Skype, or…
Podcast: Covid toolkit and the lure of Zoom rooms
Covid kicks off the podcast again this week, unfortunately, but with both Sydney and Melbourne shut down it’s the first thing that springs to everyone’s mind. However there are some…
Fun and occasional fury as our podcast hits 100 eps
We’ve scored a century! This week sees us post the 100th episode of the Flat Chat Wrap – and that’s only counting properly produced and distributed episodes. We would have…
Sneaky decisions made under cover of covid
As the covid-19 pandemic has driven us all back into our homes, the Internet has become a vital tool both in working from home and managing our strata schemes. In…
Podcast: Zoom into your chance to be on the pod
This week we get tangled up in the wiring as we examine the effect of Zoom meetings and electronic voting on the democratic processes of strata committees … and the…
Surviving and thriving as the world shuts down
Last week we invited our sponsors to let us know what we can do to make life easier during these restricted days, and maybe even to find some positives that…