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AGC Annual Meeting 1998
The following is an Executive Summary of the AGC Annual Meeting held in
Adelaide on 16 June 1998:
 | The AGC formally responded to a discussion paper released in March 1998 by
the Minerals Council of Australia's National Tertiary Education Taskforce.
The response, which identified from the geoscience perspective a number
important issues raised by the discussion paper, had been well received and
has resulted in the Chair of the NTET acknowledging certain shortcomings in
the paper.
| The AGC Executive has developed a series of position statements across a
number of topics relevant to improving the public perception and
understanding of the roles of the geosciences in Australia. The meeting
accepted a recommendation by the President that the position statements be
subject of further refinements to take account of recent inputs from Member
Societies with a view to being submitted for ratification at a General
Meeting of the AGC later in the year.
| The President noted in his report that the AGC is an important member of
FASTS with the geosciences well represented at both Board and Executive
level. FASTS has been very active in recent times in promoting issues in key
areas of national science policy. Professor Bob Carter, a Vice-President of
FASTS, had been invited to the Annual Meeting as a guest speaker on the role
of FASTS.
| Annual Reports of the President, Secretary, Treasurer and the Auditor were
all approved and accepted unanimously.
| The Council unanimously agreed to increase the existing assessment on
Member Societies by 40 cents to $1.80 per geoscientist per Member Society to
apply from the 1999 calendar year.
| The Annual Meeting was attended by 15 people, with voting representatives
present from seven of the eight AGC Member Societies. Others present were an
Associate Member representative (CSIRO) and a Vice-President of the
Vice-President, Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological
Societies (FASTS) as a guest speaker on the role of FASTS.
| The Executive Committee elected unopposed were:
- Dr Bob Day
- President;
- Mr Jon Hayes
- Secretary;
- Dr Clinton Foster
- Treasurer;
- Assoc Prof Lloyd Hamilton
- (nominated by the AIG);
- Mr David Alsop
- (nominated by PESA); and
- Mr David Horton
- (nominated by the GSA).
- Dr Geoff Hudson remains on the Executive
- as Past President.
- Mr David Crombie was re-elected
- as Auditor.
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