once a repair has become genuinely necessary, deferring it stops being a practical option, and continuing to defer it can cross from an ordinary delay into an oppressive breach of the Strata's own duty, with real financial consequences. A robust and resilient Strata Community moves from investigation to action once a repair is actually needed, rather than treating "eventually" as a substitute for a plan.

The Strata Property Act does not give Council a general discretion to spend the Strata's money on what it judges to be a good idea. Every expenditure must be authorized — a budget line, a Contingency Reserve Fund vote at the level the expenditure requires, or one of the narrow unapproved-expenditure exceptions

The core test for significant unfairness has been stable: conduct is significantly unfair if it is oppressive or unfairly prejudicial and an Owner's reasonable expectations are one relevant factor.