WEL Australia Annual General Meeting - 6 December 2024
WEL Australia will be holding our 2024 Annual General Meeting online via Zoom at 10:30am AEDT on Friday 6th December.
You are invited to attend the WEL AGM. Only financial members can participate and vote at the AGM. If you are unsure of your membership status, you can check your email for confirmation sent from [email protected] (preferred), or email us and we can check on your current status.
RSVP HERE
RSVP is essential. Zoom meeting details, and links to the meeting documents will be sent to members who have RSVP'd.
If you wish to nominate for any position on the WEL National Coordinating Committee that is, Convenor, Treasurer, Secretary or committee member, please note that you will need to be nominated and your nomination seconded by a WEL member. If you do not have ready access to WEL members, your nomination will be formalised by the Convenor and/or members of the National Coordinating Committee. New nominees must accompany their signed nomination form with a recent brief CV including information on any other women's organisation of which you are a member.
The nomination form can be found HERE. Completed nomination forms should be submitted to [email protected] before 29th November, 2024.
We look forward to seeing you online on 6th December!
PAPERS - 2024 WEL AUSTRALIA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
2) Minutes of the 2023-24 Annual General Meeting
WEL Australia Annual General Meeting – 3 December 2023
The WELA AGM held via Zoom, was attended by 37 members with 13 apologies. The WELA AGM Minutes record the amendments to the WELA Constitution which create one national WEL without recognition of state or territory WEL incorporated associations. They record also some other minor amendments as required by the ACT Associations Incorporation Act and Regulation.
WEL NSW dissolved at its AGM held on 2nd December. The draft Minutes of that meeting are available HERE. WEL VIC has indicated it will be winding up and WEL SA is still considering its position having only revived in the last 3 years. All resources from WEL NSW are to be transferred to the national body. WEL VIC is also intending to transfer its funds.
There were thirteen members of the National Coordinating Committee (NCC) declared elected out of a possible thirty members now allowed under the amended Constitution. They come from three states – NSW, Victoria and South Australia and one territory – ACT. The aim is to attract more NCC members from other states so that WELA becomes a truly national body. Future organisational arrangements, including: direction and priority setting, deployment of resources, decisions on ways of working, maintaining an authoritative digital presence, identifying spokespeople on key issues, creating content for an eNewsletter and responding to emerging national and critical state policy issues, will be determined by the new NCC.
Women's Electoral Lobby has been a constant, prominent and relevant voice in the gender advocacy, policy and equality sector, for over 50 years. We look forward to working with you to further build, strengthen and invigorate WEL Australia.
Jozefa Sobski AM
Convenor, WEL Australia, National Co-ordinating Committee
| WEL VIC Report to WELA AGM | WEL SA Report to WELA AGM |