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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.
South Australia leaves more of the running of a scheme to the corporation than most states, and communication is one of the things it leaves alone entirely. There is no statutory noticeboard and no prescribed channel beyond formal notice — which means a South Australian corporation that wants its building to know what is happening has to decide to make that happen.
Governed by the Strata Titles Act 1988 and Community Titles Act 1996, administered by Consumer and Business Services.
It governs the formal notice you still have to give.
And minute it, so it survives the committee that chose it.
In Quarter: Announce it to every owner and resident in a single send — email, and posted to the residents' portal at the same time.
Ask owners. In South Australia nothing will hand them to you.
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.
Works, shutdowns, meetings, decisions, contractors on site.
For anyone you have no details for.
Fourteen days, in writing, to the people the Act names.
In Quarter: Build the motion from the quotes and the budget, send the notice to every owner off the ownership register on the statutory clock, and record the vote as it is cast — a decision carries its majority automatically and emails the outcome to whoever raised it.
It will not. This is entirely the corporation's own decision.
Minute it, and put it in the corporation's records.
Fourteen days in writing is still fourteen days in writing.
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 South Australia, not legal or financial advice for your building. Legislation is amended and grant programmes open and close — check the current position with Consumer and Business Services or the administering body before you act on anything here.
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