Dear all, it’s my last eNews report as President! Our 2024 AGM is set for early October and I’ll be handing over the reins to someone new. It’s been an honour to lead the association for the last four years—from the middle of COVID lockdowns, through to our 50th anniversary year and into 2024.
I’m not quite sure how it happened but somehow it’s April already – and time for the first eNews of 2024! And so first up I’d like you all to stop and appreciate the work of its editor, Victoria Thomas. Editing the AICCM National Newsletter was one of the first roles I had as
And, all of a sudden, it was over! The National Conference took place in Canberra, from 15 to 17 November, and celebrated 50 years of AICCM. It was lovely to see so many of you in person; at 220 in the sold-out venue and at least another 20 online, we may have to start
There are so many exciting things in the air at the moment it’s hard to know where to start this report. But to kick things off I’d really like to thank everyone for the extraordinary response to our end-of-financial-year fundraising push for AICCM’s 50k for 50 years campaign – and especially Robyn Sloggett and
Welcome to the first AICCM e-News for 2023, which is also the year of AICCM’s 50th anniversary. The Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Materials (ICCM, later AICCM) first met in Perth in 1973. Attendees came from across Australia and from as far afield as Dunedin, New Zealand, and Port Moresby in Papua New
It has been a busy few months since the last e-News. We’ve had the national AGM, the launch of the 2023 Disaster Preparedness Calendar, three Exhibitions SIG webinars, the Preventive SIG workshop ‘Communicating Conservation’, and the announcement of the AICCM Awards and the ADFAS mid-career scholarships. You can read more about our wonderful award
The wattles have started flowering around Melbourne, marking the start of ‘yellow season’ and reminding us that spring is not far away now. This will hopefully bring some relief from the winter progression of colds, flu and COVID-19; I hope you have all been keeping safe and well. In May we announced our AICCM Anniversary
Welcome to the first eNews for 2022! The new year unfortunately didn’t waste any time throwing new challenges at us all, with the Omicron COVID-19 surge after Christmas and then the floods in NSW and Queensland. Many AICCM members, including members of the Disaster Preparedness Committee and the NSW and Qld Divisions, have been working
Somehow, it’s nearly the end of 2021! And despite everything (ongoing global pandemics, etc.) it’s also been an amazingly productive year, with AICCM members organising and participating in a multitude of programs and events. Channelling some Christmas spirit, here are 12 of my favourites (partridges in pear trees and golden rings notwithstanding, and in
2021 has turned out to be just as strange as 2020, with much of Australia in lockdown right now. Despite this, AICCM members have continued to amaze me with their enthusiasm, creativity and resourcefulness. Members have planned THREE events for next month, centred around the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction on 13 October. In
