Are you really getting independent strata advice from your SCA aligned manager? The Strata Community Association yearly "conference" sponsorships
This needs to stop! How can you trust your manager for independent advice if they are members of an association who sells sponsorships to the same companies who they recommend to you for services?
The SCA yearly "conference" is heavily funded by industry players including their cocktail function being sponsored by Macquarie Bank. The banks, insurers and industry players aren't spending this money out of the good of their heart.
At the conference, everything is for sale - even down to the pens, notebooks and self appointed awards from the industry to itself.
They want priority access through the manager networks to be the first choice for products and services which committees procure.
Governments are talking about the bare minimum of removing insurance commissions - it won't make a difference when the conflicts at the heart of the industry are significant and systemic