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[Guest Andys@coffs]

People

 

In less than 48hrs the group Im a part of will set off for Canberra. It’s now too late for Australia Post to deliver a proxy to RAAus HQ or to one of us as a proxy holder.

 

Did you know, however, that a Faxed proxy, or a scanned and emailed copy of your proxy is just as acceptable as the paper version by AusPost.

 

If you wish to have a say at the General Meeting and can’t be there yourself, then a proxy and an associated briefing to the holder, is the only way you can get your views to count in changing some of the dysfunctional things within RAAus.

 

The letter that was sent out by the Secretary we believe was written by the association’s lawyer and its careful in that nowhere does it actually ask you to provide a proxy to the board, but yet without fail everyone who I have spoken to who has read it has inferred that the board is indeed asking for your proxy.

 

To have done that without a right of reply or the ability to put the alternate view was fundamentally a failure of natural justice, but it’s what we have come to expect.

 

Therefore there are probably significant amounts of proxy’s by members whose only form of communication is the magazine and the secretaries letter and who therefore happily sent in a proxy knowing nothing of the real circumstances, because lets face it the Middo Letter was to use a metaphor” a gold plated t&rd” whose purpose was to hide the smell, not expose the warts and all view that as members we deserve.

 

So, last chance, if unsure this post will help you put one together and send it on its way.

 

Regards

 

Andy

 

 

[Doug Evans]

Fax this morning Andy

 

 

[Guest Andys@coffs]

Doug you FAX'd to me or to RAA HQ? If me I dont have it

 

Andy

 

 

[Doug Evans]

Raa

 

Myles as my proxy !

 

 

[Guest Andys@coffs]

Ok Good, your getting a say!

 

 

[fly_tornado]

Not necessarily the "say" you want.

 

 

[Guest Andys@coffs]

Doug has a significant advantage over the vast majority of members, he's seen the posts here, knows what the "otherside" are concerned about and has made an informed decision. The ones that concern me are those that havent seen or heard of the reasons for the meeting and have cast proxys on the basis of what is, in my opinion pure political rubbish from Middo (or perhaps from Jason Parkinson of Porters Lawyers who are the RAAus lawyers...currently)

 

Doug rightly or wrongly (and in any events its in the eyes of the beholder) is contributing to the debate and Im personaly glad thats the case, the greater the count of members plus proxy the better the chance that a democratic decision truely reflective of the whole organisation memberbase will eventuate. The larger the total count the less we on the "otherside" become an annoying minority and more a significant percentage of the total membership and the greater the chances that behaviour will modify, after all there is another GM in but a few weeks after this next one.

 

No matter what the outcome, may itbe the case that we all win! rather than continue to all loose

 

Andy

 

 

[fly_tornado]

I would be interested to hear what Myles has to say, apart from John Mck and Jim T. you never hear anything from the reps apart from the blurb that goes into the magazine when they are trying to get elected.