Owners at one of Australia's biggest body corporates are standing againat the current

Chris Griffith brings a background in technology (early computer science graduate, built a body corporate management system in the 1980s) and journalism (investigative reporter at The Courier-Mail and senior technology writer at The Australian). His platform centres on transparent financial management, citing excessive fees for owner records, denied access to the general ledger, and a discontinued sinking fund forecast. His central concern is the committee's undisclosed $1.4 million withdrawal to buy four apartments held by a company controlled by the chairman, plus questioned legal and management fees. He aims to restore accountability and control levies. I've never.

Bob Cartledge, nominating for Secretary, brings a legal and public service background: 20+ years as a Federal Public Service national security adviser, an LLB, and later law lecturing at the University of the South Pacific in Vanuatu and Fiji. An SCR owner since 2018 and former committee member (2018–2019), he cites mismanagement including strained relations with other Southport Central bodies corporate and visible maintenance neglect. He highlights a 2022 Adjudicator ruling finding a "wholesale failure" of transparency regarding CTS 35751 Investments. His priorities: recovering invested funds, proper Sinking Fund funding, rebuilding relationships, and publishing a detailed maintenance program.

Honggang (Paul) Wang, owner of Unit 1177, is nominating for Treasurer and ordinary committee member. He brings 25+ years in the property industry and a decade running an onsite management business, giving him direct exposure to body corporate operations. He owns five fully-paid properties, holds a Master's from the University of Canberra, and has experience managing tradespeople and renovation projects. Wang supports the "community team's" aims to curb excessive spending while maintaining necessary upkeep, emphasizing transparent financial operations so owners can trust their levies are spent wisely rather than on unnecessary pursuits.

Taryn Kong, nominating as an ordinary committee member, is a chartered accountant and scientist with three years' prior body corporate experience. Her concerns include $1.5 million in owners' levies used to acquire four SCR units via CTS 35751 Investment Pty Ltd, unexplained "management" and legal fees, and a forecast 70% sinking fund levy increase from 2027. She received no substantive answers when questioning the chairman and manager. Her priorities: full disclosure of fees, a genuine review of the investment units against divestment options, and fair elections without pre-filled voting papers.

Roy Manchip, a 15-year owner of Unit 32002, is nominating as an ordinary committee member. A former Army officer with 40+ years in leadership, business, and risk management, he's an absentee owner concerned about high fees, poor maintenance, and lack of transparency at SCR. His central issue is the CTS 35751 Investment scheme, where nearly $1.5 million from the Sinking Fund bought four units without owner approval—later ruled unlawful by a BCCM Adjudicator, with the ruling challenged via QCAT. If elected, he aims to improve transparency, control costs through competitive tendering, and give owners a stronger voice.

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Jimmy Xueshan Jia, a semi-retired chartered engineer with 38 years in water, oil, gas and clean energy industries, has lived at SCR nearly ten years. He's raised concerns for eight years about wasteful legal spending and requested four separate AGM voting paper inspections over alleged manipulation, receiving no responses to his emailed questions. Investigating the chairman's investment company has brought him threatening defamation letters. His priorities: financial transparency, a thorough review of the investment company's management and possible divestment, and fair elections ending pre-filled voting papers.