May 21, 2020
Date: 7 April 2021, 6.00pm
Venue: Zoom Webinar
This notice provides information about the:
Annual General Meeting
Rule 4(c) of the Society’s Rules requires that an Annual General Meeting (AGM) must be held in April of each year.
Business of the Annual General Meeting
The formal business of the Annual General Meeting, including the election of Council Members, will be conducted via an electronic ballot, in accordance with Rule 18.
Members, Fellows and Distinguished Fellows, who are financial in 2021, will receive an email from the Society’s Returning Officer, via the electronic balloting company, Election Buddy. This email will include a unique ballot link that provides a random, secret access key for each voter. Voter anonymity is assured by ballot settings which ensure that voter choices cannot be linked to any voter.
The ballot will run from 18 March 12.00pm AEDT to 6 April 12.00pm AEST and will address:
- Procedural Business:
- Confirmation of the Minutes of the 153rd Annual General Meeting
- Confirmation that the Annual Report of Council and the Financial Statements for 2020 be received (Link to be provided)
- Confirmation of the proposed Auditors for 2021
- Election of Office-bearers and Council members, namely the:
- President — from a field of two (2) candidates
- Vice-President — from a field of three (3) candidates
- Eight (8) Councillors — from a field of fourteen (14) candidates.
Please note that for each of the positions of Secretary, Treasurer, Librarian, and Webmaster, only a single nomination was received. Accordingly, these Office-bearers will be declared elected at the AGM without the need for a ballot.
The results of the ballot will be announced by the Returning Officer at the AGM on 7 April 2020 and will be posted on the website on the following day.
The Ordinary General Meeting will commence immediately following the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting.
Relevant Documents
The Agenda for this meeting and Minutes of the previous AGM will be available on the Meetings page of this website.
The Annual Report from Council and Financial Statements for 2020 will be available on the Governance page.
It is suggested that Members and Fellows read these documents in advance of the commencement of the ballot.
Election of Office-Bearers and Ordinary Members of Council
Listed below are the nominations for the incoming Council received by the Secretary by 5.00pm AEDT on Friday, 5 March 2021.
For the Council Election, there are candidates who are standing for more than one position. In such circumstances, Rule 16(e) states that when a person stands for election in several offices (President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, Librarian, Webmaster, Councillor), that person shall be deemed elected to the first office considered for election in the order specified, if successful, and shall by deemed ineligible for subsequent offices.
In all cases, candidates have been invited to provide an optional statement outlining how their expertise and experience fits them for these roles and will benefit the Society. These statements are available through the links below and also are provided as information on the electronic ballot form.
Ordinary General Meeting
The 1292nd Ordinary General Meeting will follow the Annual General Meeting and includes a live, video-streamed Open Lecture.
The Agenda for this meeting and Minutes of the previous OGM can be found on the Meetings page of this website.
“Antarctica, this ain’t no mirage:
the value of art in disseminating
scientific information”
Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger
Contemporary Artist
In this talk Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger will explore just one of the islands she has investigated and, through her art, has raised awareness about the impact that our contemporary society is having on these often-idealised environments. Through the use of her time-based installations, photography and sculptures, along with her paintings and drawings, Lea works to make science more accessible to the community at large.
In January 2017 Lea travelled to Antarctica. This journey was unusual, not just because it was with a not-for-profit organisation, no room service or cabin attendants, but also as it was in many ways in the footsteps of the adventurer explorer. Her journey here resulted in artworks and exhibitions that have been seen across Australia in universities and art galleries, with her goal to bring the plight of the remote into the lives of the everyday person.
Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger is an Australian contemporary artist who disseminates her research and artistic vision, as an ‘artist at large’ by presenting her response and advocacy for environmental issues. Her investigations into evolution, contemporary society, and the impact of tourism on island environments has seen Lea do onsite examinations through immersive residencies or eco-tourism inquiries in; the South Shetland Islands specifically Deception Island (Antarctica) 2017, the Faroe Islands (The North Sea) 2015, the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) 2014, Lord Howe Island (NSW Australia) 2014 & 2015 and in 2021 an Artist at Sea residency with the Schmidt Ocean Institute. Lea creates artworks and installations that examine a window into the impact of the Anthropocene and contemporary consumerism on the viewed utopian destination. Lea has disseminated this research and her unique perspective through lectures, paper presentations and peer reviewed journals.
Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger has exhibited widely including solo exhibitions at Edith Cowan University Western Australia, and Griffith University, Queensland, and group exhibitions including Sculpture by the Sea (Sydney and Cottesloe), the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing and the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize. Internationally her work has been shown at the Venice Summer Academy, Stunning Edge Exhibition Taiwan, the New York Hall of Science, Galway International Arts Festival Ireland, the SVA (the School of Visual Arts) at the Flatiron Building in Manhattan and the NYABF at the MOMA annexe PS1, New York.
