Each year, the SCA (NSW) Strata Community CHU Awards for Excellence features an Essay category. The category asks members of SCA (NSW) to write an original essay that sheds light on critical, innovative and emerging issues in the strata sector.
Essay topics to be chosen from the provided list and should demonstrate unique and interesting insight, innovation and lived experience with an emphasis on authenticity, understanding of the challenges and opportunities or ideas for solutions that contribute to the sector.
In 2026, the category had 7 finalists. With Ruby Carr from Strata Republic taking out the top award, her essay will now be submitted for the National Essay Award
Here are some of the essays featured this year:
Strata – The Love Story Not Told Often Enough
Anastasia Menzies, Premier Strata
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A unique essay reflecting on why the author fell in love with the role strata plays in our community and how remembering that her why is crucial to delivering for the communities she serves.
Mascot Towers
Matthew Faulkner, Matthew Faulkner Accountancy
The author reviews a significant decision handed down by the Supreme Court of NSW in 2023 and the enormous implications it has on strata across Australia.
Ego-Death and the Resurrection of a Sector: Leadership in a post Strata-Geddon World
Natalie Fitzgerald, Genesis Strata Management
A beautiful, reflective essay that asks a sector to be brave in its leadership and examines why, when ego steps aside, the best rebuilds, redoes, and resurrections happen.
Strata Is Sixty-Five. We Are Twenty-Seven.
Tiffany Wylder, ACE Body Corporate Management North Shore
The author uniquely investigates how an industry’s collective next steps, at its developmental crossroad, will define its journey to maturity and the seriousness with which the profession is viewed in the critical years ahead.
Changing the Narrative around Strata Management in the Public Eye
Tracey Payne, Illawarra Strata Management
Empathy, patience, compassion and time. This forward-thinking essay speaks to rebuilding a sector through the individual interactions that occur every day in a strata professional role. Every interaction is someone’s strata story.
