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Your pet laws and by-laws, state by state

  • 21/03/2021
  • Author Jimmy-T

Recent re-interpretations and rulings on pet by-laws in NSW, not to mention much-needed updating of the basic strata laws behind them, have left a lot of pet owners scratching their…

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    Podcast: Dogs banned but NCAT says OK to cats

    • 10/03/2021
    • Author Jimmy-T

    There’s a few differences in this week’s podcast from previous editions. For a start, Sue is on the other end of a Zoom call as she takes advantage of easing…

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      More pet turmoil as NCAT backs no-dogs by-law

      • 07/03/2021
      • Author Jimmy-T

      The endless pets-in-apartments saga took another twist last week when a tribunal ruled that a no-dogs by-law was acceptable, even though last year the NSW Court of Appeal decreed that a…

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        Forum: Seeking speaking permission & rising damp

        • 24/02/2021
        • Author Jimmy-T

        There’s a genuine “Catch-22” hidden in one of our questions this week.  How can you ask to speak at a strata committee meeting when you aren’t allowed to speak? The…

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          Podcast: Pets (again!) with James Valentine

          • 23/02/2021
          • Author Jimmy-T

          Every so often – about once a month – I get invited on to James Valentine’s Afternoons on ABC 702. Last week the topic was pets in apartments – partly…

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            Survey deadline extended to define ‘unreasonable’

            • 22/02/2021
            • Author Jimmy-T

            The search for the definition of “unreasonable” has prompted NSW Fair Trading, aka the department of Better Regulation, to extend the deadline for public responses to its review of strata…

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              Pet-friendly housing helps everyone, says report

              • 22/02/2021
              • Author Jimmy-T

              A new report backed by six Australian universities has concluded that having pets is good for both tenants and landlords. However, even though more than 60 per cent of Australian…

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                Podcast: New pet laws and defining ‘reasonable’

                • 16/02/2021
                • Author Jimmy-T

                In this week’s podcast we give the NSW Parliament’s deliberations on it’s new strata pet laws a kick along. As reported here, the Lower House has taken a good six…

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                  Revised pet law offers clarity and compromise

                  • 10/02/2021
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  The vexed question of pets in apartments and unfair by-laws took a new twist this week when Alex Greenwich, Sydney’s member of the NSW Parliament saw his proposal for a…

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                    Podcast: What a great year … for pets and renters

                    • 04/01/2021
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    This week’s podcast may be the first of 2021 but 2020 doesn’t get away that easily. Last year will be remembered in global politics as the year of Brexit, Trump,…

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                      Our stressful year of strategic strata living

                      • 28/12/2020
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      Covid or no covid, it’s been a tempestuous year in strata in Australia.  From a win for pet owners in NSW to dubious stats from Tasmania, there’s been plenty to…

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                        How oodles of cavoodles rode crest of Covid waves

                        • 15/12/2020
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        It’s a poll that’s less reliable than the US Election result but more indicative than, say, asking people how much junk food they eat: It’s the most popular dog breed…

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                          Podcast 101: Pets and some post-Covid plusses

                          • 24/11/2020
                          • Author Jimmy-T

                          With most of the worst of the pandemic behind us here in Australia – or, at least, the first and hopefully the last wave of infections – we thought we’d…

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                            Podcast 96: Pets, rents and new age steam trains

                            • 20/10/2020
                            • Author Jimmy-T

                            People who don’t care about pets in apartments shouldn’t switch off just yet, regardless of how bored you are with the whole issue. It has implications for everyone in apartments,…

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                              Pets in apartments: the dogfight is just beginning

                              • 20/10/2020
                              • Author Jimmy-T

                              The big question swirling around “no-pets” blocks in NSW, following the Court of Appeal’s decision against the Horizon building’s by-law last week, is “what next?’ And the answer is probably…

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                                Podcast 95: pet ban block, websites and a new book

                                • 13/10/2020
                                • Author Jimmy-T

                                The big strata news of this week stopped us in our tracks. The NSW Court of Appeals has overturned a decision by the strata tribunal (NCAT) which, earlier this year,…

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                                  Pet ban shock as Appeals Court erases by-laws

                                  • 13/10/2020
                                  • Author Jimmy-T

                                  It was a decision that doubtless had the denizens of luxury Sydney apartment block Horizon spluttering into their sundowner G&Ts on Monday afternoon … and then checking their bank accounts.…

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                                    Podcast: Renos, pets and kids in uncrowded houses

                                    • 22/09/2020
                                    • Author Jimmy-T

                                    It’s another big week on the podcast front with a lot of serious – and not so serious – issues to discuss. First up we look at this story about…

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