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A new $A178 million retail development in Perth’s south is set to run on a security stack that will be familiar to many Australian integrators: Milestone XProtect for video management, Axis cameras for licence plate recognition, and Inner Range Integriti…
Liquor & Gaming NSW has released official signage to support venues adopting the Code of Practice: Facial Recognition Technology in hotels and clubs. The signage requirement, announced 2 September 2026, is tied to a voluntary code rather than a mandatory…
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has kicked off 2026 with a targeted compliance sweep of business privacy policies, reviewing around 60 organisations across sectors that routinely collect personal information face-to-face. For strata committees, club operators, and facilities…
A recurring question from NSW strata committees is one that sits right at the intersection of governance and security operations: who, exactly, is allowed to view CCTV footage captured on common property, and can a committee lawfully restrict that access?…
A recent piece from Security Electronics & Networks, reflecting on this year’s SecTech Roadshow, raises a question that should sit at the front of every facilities manager’s mind when evaluating a new security system upgrade: does more technology actually mean…
A recent piece from Urban Protection Group on strata building security risks is a useful reminder for NSW property managers and owners corporations: the biggest vulnerabilities in apartment buildings and mixed-use strata schemes are rarely dramatic break-ins. They are the…
When One Badge Failure Becomes Five: Understanding the Access Control Fault Hierarchy It starts with a single complaint — a staff member whose credential stopped working at 7 AM. By the time you investigate, three other readers are flagging errors,…
A strata committee cannot unilaterally install CCTV on common property A question recently published on Lookup Strata has put a sharp spotlight on a compliance issue that surfaces regularly in NSW strata schemes: a strata committee arranging the installation of…
NSW strata law is continuing its staged reform program in 2026, and the changes now in force carry real administrative and financial implications for strata committees, owners corporations, building managers, and the facilities professionals who support them. If your building…
The intercom at a strata building’s front door is easy to overlook — it buzzes, it opens the door, and most of the time nobody thinks about it again. But for property managers and body corporate committees running multiple sites,…