President ’ s Perspective
David Hiscox President
Happy New Year ! As we start 2017 , I hope you all had a great festive season with your families . This sees the end of the first year of the new Federal Executive . Our first year saw the renewal of the Strategic Plan , the Executive meeting for the first time in Victoria , the introduction of our new strategic education partners , ongoing meetings with Clubs NSW and making representation to the Minister Troy Grant on behalf of our members .
Certainly , the findings of the recent ILGR investigation into the Parramatta matter is a concern to the Executive especially where the issue of how managers ’ remuneration is concerned where it is widely based in the industry on achieving budget and turnover and this is contrary to the Registered Clubs Act legislation . I will be updating members in the new year as to development s in that regard as to what managers should be doing to address any conflict with the legislation and their remuneration methodology .
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Our first meeting of 2017 will be the Annual General Meeting held at the Brisbane Convention Centre on Tuesday the 28th March , held in conjunction with the AHGE . The event continues grow and provide good returns to the association .
Next year sees the Association return to Jupiter ’ s for the midyear conference . Ralph and the team are putting together an outstanding program of professional development . This will also see the first meeting of all Zone Presidents and the Federal Council and Federal Executive , and an opportunity to garner feedback from all our zones and we thank Kim White President of the Great Lakes Zone for a great suggestion and initiative .
The Association will again be running our successful summit calendar with the first this year at Cessnock and the Country Manager ’ s Conference . Additionally there will be the full suite of educational programs . Regarding the Strategic Plan , Peta Imber has been appointed the IR Compliance Advisor in helping Peter Cooper with his heavy workload and ensuring the service to our members is enhanced .
Members would have been in receipt of the new look Club IQ electronic newsletter and CMAA Magazine . The Club IQ newsletter seems to be hitting the mark , with a lot of interest in the content , particularly the personal profile of our members thanks to Bernie Brown , Bronwyn Newman and Greg Pickering for you contributions . We look forward to seeing more of our managers profiled this year .
2017 will see the move to 4 digital editions of the CMAA Magazine with the July edition also a hard print copy .
I am hoping that all clubs will continue to prosper in 2017 and I look forward to seeing you at the AGM and or at one our events somewhere throughout the year .
“ Our first meeting of 2017 will be the Annual General Meeting held at the Brisbane Convention Centre on Tuesday the 28th March , held in conjunction with the AHGE .”