Enterprise Agreement Voting Platforms Explained: A Guide for Australian Employers

You don’t have to sit through many strata meetings before you see how proxies can shift the room. Sometimes it’s harmless — an owner helping out a neighbour who couldn’t attend. Other times, you’ve got one person holding a stack of proxies thick enough to decide the outcome before the meeting even starts. That’s exactly […]

In insolvency work, creditor meetings tend to look procedural on paper. Votes are lodged, outcomes are counted, and resolutions pass or fail. Simple enough. But anyone who’s spent time in this space knows it’s rarely that clean. When there’s something significant at stake, voting behaviour can become… strategic. That’s where vote stacking comes into the […]

Two fundamentally different ways to count votes When people talk about elections, the focus is usually on who wins. Less attention gets paid to how that result is actually produced — yet the counting method can shape the outcome just as much as the candidates themselves. Two systems come up again and again: first past […]

What Happens If Your Protected Action Ballot Fails? A failed protected action ballot (PAB) can feel like a setback. There’s no point dressing that up — if employees don’t support industrial action, it changes the tone of bargaining overnight. But it’s not the end of the road. In practice, I’ve seen plenty of negotiations regain […]

ISO-Certified Voting Providers — Why Certification Really Matters When you work in governance or elections long enough, you start to notice a simple pattern: most problems don’t come from the voting process itself, they come from uncertainty about how that process is managed behind the scenes. That’s where certification becomes more than a badge on […]

If you’re putting an enterprise agreement (EA) to a vote, the Better Off Overall Test — usually shortened to “BOOT” — is the hurdle that ultimately decides whether it gets approved. It’s not a tick-the-box exercise. The Fair Work Commission will scrutinise the agreement in detail, and if it doesn’t pass the BOOT, it simply […]

Short answer: yes, in most cases. Longer answer: it depends on where your scheme sits and how your by-laws or rules are set up. Over the past few years, online voting has shifted from a “nice to have” to something most strata schemes expect. COVID accelerated it, but the legislative groundwork was already there in […]

Yes. They can — and if they can’t, you’ve got a problem. That might sound blunt, but it’s the reality. A virtual AGM isn’t just a webcast with a voting button attached. If shareholders don’t have a proper way to ask questions while the meeting is happening, it starts to fall short of what the […]

If you’re involved in a Queensland body corporate, the annual general meeting (AGM) is where the real decisions get made. Budgets are approved, committees are elected, and motions that shape the scheme for the next 12 months are put to a vote. The rules aren’t optional—they’re set out under the Body Corporate and Community Management […]

Strata AGM Rules in Victoria — what actually matters in practice If you’re involved in an owners corporation in Victoria, the annual general meeting (AGM) is where the real decisions get made — budgets, committees, contracts, and sometimes disputes that have been bubbling away all year. The framework for all of this sits under the […]