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Most buildings communicate through three things at once: a corkboard by the lifts, a group chat that half the owners are not in, and an email list somebody last updated in 2019. Nobody knows which one is authoritative, tenants are usually on none of them, and the committee ends up repeating itself. A noticeboard is the cheapest thing on this list and it removes more friction than most of the expensive ones.
Queensland's body corporate legislation is precise about how notices are given and what the body corporate roll must hold, and a noticeboard changes none of that. What it changes is the day-to-day: in a Queensland scheme with a high proportion of letting and holiday occupancy, the people in the building on any given week are frequently not the people on the roll.
Governed by the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997, administered by the Office of the Commissioner for Body Corporate and Community Management.
So the noticeboard stays clearly separate from formal notice.
Everything formal runs off it.
Through the letting agent where there is one, and a lobby self-subscribe where there is not.
In Quarter: Owners, occupiers and tenants are held as contacts against the building rather than in somebody's phone, so the list you send to is the list that is actually current — and the people who only rent here can be on it.
A committee decision is made at a committee meeting and minuted. The noticeboard is how people find out.
In Quarter: Announce it to every owner and resident in a single send — email, and posted to the residents' portal at the same time.
Especially where short-term occupiers cycle through.
Building-wide, never individual.
In Quarter: The ownership register, financial records, insurance, contracts and documents sit in one searchable place, so a handover is an export rather than an archaeology project — and they are still there when the committee turns over.
Queensland unwinds those. Minute first, announce second.
In a letting-heavy scheme that is most of the building.
Notice has its own rules and its own clock.
Nearly every complaint a committee gets about communication is the same complaint: I did not know. Not disagreement — absence. A single place people trust fixes most of it.
A physical board still has its place for the lift lobby. What it cannot do is reach the people who are not standing in front of it.
Publish once and it reaches owners and residents by email and in the app, and is posted to the noticeboard in the resident portal at the same time.
Tenants and occupiers can be on the noticeboard without being on the owners' register — which is the group most buildings cannot currently reach at all.
A notice is a record with a date, not a message that scrolls away. Six months later you can still show what was said and when.
Residents can ask the Manager about the building and get an answer immediately, instead of adding to the committee's inbox.
A burst pipe and a reminder about bin night are not the same message, and should not travel the same way.
General information about Queensland, not legal or financial advice for your building. Legislation is amended and grant programmes open and close — check the current position with the Office of the Commissioner for Body Corporate and Community Management or the administering body before you act on anything here.
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