2016 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING DOCUMENTATION
2016 agm program FRIDAY 24 JUNE 2016 12:00pm
Registration opens – Queensland Foyer, Townsville Entertainment & Convention Centre (TECC)
4:00pm
Registration closes – Queensland Foyer, TECC
4:15pm-4:30pm
Shuttles run to Opening Ceremony from The Ville Resort foyer and Rydges, Palmer Street
5:00pm
Opening Ceremony and Service, ANZAC Memorial Park, Townsville
5:45pm
Shuttles to Welcome Reception venue
6:00pm
Welcome Reception commences, Grand Ballroom, The Ville Resort
6:30pm-8:45pm
Shuttles operate between The Ville Resort and Palmer Street
8:30pm
Welcome Reception concludes, Grand Ballroom, The Ville Resort
SATURDAY 25 JUNE 2016 7:00am
Registration opens – Queensland Foyer, TECC
7:45am
Shuttles depart Rydges, Palmer Street for TECC
8:00am
Doors to Business Sessions open – Auditorium, TECC
8:25am
Registration closes – Queensland Foyer, TECC
8:30am
Business Sessions commence – Auditorium, TECC
10:15am
Morning tea – Queensland Foyer, TECC
10:40am
Business Sessions resume – Auditorium, TECC
12:30pm
Lunch – Queensland Foyer, TECC
1:15pm
Business Sessions resume – Auditorium, TECC
3:20pm
Business Sessions conclude for the day Afternoon tea – Queensland Foyer, TECC
3:45pm
Shuttles depart TECC for Palmer Street
6:15pm
Shuttles depart Rydges, Palmer Street for TECC
6:30pm
Pre-Dinner Drinks – Queensland Foyer, TECC
7:00pm
Gala Dinner commences – Auditorium, TECC
9:30pm-11:15pm
Shuttles run to Palmer Street
11:00pm
Gala Dinner concludes
SUNDAY 26 JUNE 2016 7:45am
Shuttles depart Rydges, Palmer Street for TECC
8:00am
Doors to Business Sessions open – Auditorium, TECC
8:30am
Business Sessions commence – Auditorium, TECC
10:15am
Morning tea – Queensland Foyer, TECC
10:40am
Business Sessions resume – Auditorium, TECC
12:55pm
2016 AGM Concludes
1:00pm
Lunch – Queensland Foyer, TECC
1:30pm
Shuttles depart TECC for Palmer Street / Airport
2016 agm agenda ITEM DESCRIPTION 1
Introduction and Welcome
2
Fallen Comrades
3
Roll Call
4
In Attendance
5
Other RSL Officials and State Councillors, VIPs, Minister, MPs,
Departmental and Service Commanders
6
Apologies
7
Minutes of 2015 Annual General Meeting
8
Hours of Sitting
9
Appointment of Returning Officers and Scrutineers
10
RSL (Queensland Branch) 2015 Annual Report
11
Other Relevant Business
12
Nominations: State Vice President
13
Election of Delegate and Co-delegate to National Congress
14
Confirmation of Board of Directors
15
Appointment of Auditor
16
Destruction of Ballot Papers
17
RSL Sir Raymond Huish, CBE Memorial Grant
18
Notices of Motion
19
Future Venues for AGM
20
Conclusion
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2016 AGM DOCUMENTATION 1. INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME 2. FALLEN COMRADES 3. ROLL CALL (Correct as at 29 April 2016. Subject to change prior to the AGM).
S Cameron CSC
State President/Chairman
J Strachan OAM
State Deputy President
E Cameron
State Vice President
V Reading
Brisbane North District
P Sterling
Far Northern District
P Fairon
Gold Coast District
P Ryan
Moreton District
S Sergeant
North Queensland District
B Vaines
Pioneer-Fitzroy-Highlands District
W Taylor
South Eastern District
T Ferris
Sunshine Coast & Regional District
M Foot OAM
Western District
TBA
Wide Bay & Burnett District
R Cunneen
Appointed Director
Allora Ashgrove Atherton Babinda Banyo Bardon Beachmere Beaudesert Beenleigh & District Bell Biggenden Biloela Blackall Blackbutt Boonah Bray Park-Strathpine Bribie Island Burleigh Heads Caboolture-Morayfield & District Cairns & District Ex-Servicewomen Cairns
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Calliope Caloundra Cannon Hill District & Vietnam Services Centenary Suburbs Charleville Chinchilla City-New Farm Clayfield-Toombul Clifton Cooktown Cooroy-Pomona Currumbin / Palm Beach Darra & District Dayboro Deception Bay Edge Hill / Cairns West Emerald Emu Park Ex-Servicewomens Forest Lake Gatton Gayndah Gaythorne Geebung Zillmere Bald Hills Aspley Gladstone Glasshouse Country Goodna Goombungee Goondiwindi Gordonvale Gracemere & District Greenbank Gympie Helidon Herbert River Herberton Hervey Bay Highfields Innisfail Ipswich Railway Ipswich Kalbar Kawana Waters Kedron-Wavell Kenmore / Moggill Kilcoy Killarney Kingaroy / Memerambi Laidley
Leyburn Logan & District Lowood Mackay Ex-Service Women Mackay Macleay Island Malanda Maleny Manly-Lota Mareeba Marian Maroochydore Meandarra / Glenmorgan Miles Monto Mossman Moura Mt Molloy Mt Perry Mudgeeraba-Robina Murgon Nambour Nanango NASHO CC National Servicemens Nerang North Gold Coast Nundah-Northgate Oakey Orchid Beach / Fraser Island Palmwoods & District Pine Rivers District Pittsworth Proston Rainbow Beach Ravenshoe Redbank Plains Redbank Redcliffe Redland Bay South Redlands Rollingstone Roma Rosewood Runaway Bay Russell Island Salisbury Samford Sandgate
Sherwood-Indooroopilly Southport Springwood Tri-Service St Helens Stanthorpe Surfers Paradise Tamborine Mountain Taroom Tewantin / Noosa Theodore Tin Can Bay Toogoolawah Toogoom & District Toowong Toowoomba United Townsville Tramways Tully Tweed Heads & Coolangatta Walkerston-Pleystowe Wallangarra Warwick Weipa Wondai Woodford Wynnum Yandina / Eumundi Yarraman Yeronga-Dutton Park
4. IN ATTENDANCE (Correct as at 29 April 2016. Subject to change prior to the AGM).
Banyo Beachmere Beaudesert Blackall Bray Park-Strathpine Bribie Island Brisbane North District Caboolture-Morayfield & District Cairns Caloundra Chinchilla Coolum-Peregian Cooroy-Pomona Currumbin / Palm Beach
Deception Bay Emu Park Ex-Servicewomen’s Far Northern District Forest Lake Gatton Gaythorne Geebung Zillmere Bald Hills Aspley Goodna Gordonvale Gracemere & District Greenbank Hervey Bay Ipswich Railway Kawana Waters Kedron-Wavell Laidley Mackay Ex-Service Women Maroochydore Murgon NASHO CC National Servicemens North Gold Coast Nundah-Northgate Oakey Pine Rivers District Redbank Plains Redcliffe Redlands Roma Samford Sherwood-Indooroopilly Southport St Helens Stanthorpe Tewantin/Noosa The Gap Chapter of the Gaythorne Sub Branch Theodore Woodford Yeronga-Dutton Park
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5. OTHER RSL OFFICIALS AND STATE COUNCILLORS, VIPS, MINISTER, MPS, DEPARTMENTAL AND SERVICE COMMANDERS
D Humphreys
Principal Member Veteran’s Review Board
M Kelly AO DSC
Repatriation Commissioner Department of Veterans’ Affairs
J Langrehr
Chief Executive Officer RSL (SA Branch)
P McIntosh AM CSC
Chairman RSL Care
D McLachlan AO
State President RSL (Victoria Branch)
C Miers
General Counsel / Company Secretary RSL (Queensland Branch)
(Correct as at 29 April 2016. Subject to change prior to the AGM).
G Avramovic
Chief Operating Officer RSL (Queensland Branch)
T Bishop
General Manager, Lotteries RSL (Queensland Branch)
S Button
Chief Information Officer RSL (Queensland Branch)
L Cameron
Deputy Commissioner Queensland Department of Veterans’ Affairs
C Orme DSC AM CSC
I Dalton
Director VVCS North Queensland
Deputy President, Repatriation Commission Department of Veterans’ Affairs
S Sauer
R De Vere MC OAM
Honorary Life Vice President RSL (Queensland Branch)
Chief Executive Officer Mates4Mates
D Tehan MP
Minister for Veterans’ Affairs
S Denner
State Secretary / General Manager, Veteran Services RSL (Queensland Branch)
L Traini
Chief Executive Officer RSL (Queensland Branch)
R Dick
Deputy National President / State President RSL (Tasmania Branch)
M Dillman
Managing Principal Macpherson Kelley Lawyers
M Dwyer
Chief Executive Officer Gallipoli Medical Research Foundation
P Eveille
State President RSL (ACT Branch)
D Feeney MP
Shadow Minister for Veterans’ Affairs
L Gambrill
President RSL (Queensland Branch) State Council of Auxiliaries
J Hodges
National Veterans’ Affairs Advisor RSL (NSW Branch)
J Hoskins
Head of People, Performance & Culture RSL (Queensland Branch)
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(Retd)
6. APOLOGIES (Correct as at 29 April 2016. Subject to change prior to the AGM).
Bowen Charters Towers Esk Tiaro Winton Woodgate Beach
7. MINUTES OF 2015 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 8. HOURS OF SITTING 9. APPOINTMENT OF RETURNING OFFICERS AND SCRUTINEERS 10. ANNUAL REPORT (Please refer to the 2015 RSL (Queensland Branch) Annual Report).
11. OTHER RELEVANT BUSINESS
18. NOTICES OF MOTION
12. NOMINATIONS: STATE VICE PRESIDENT
MONETARY ASSISTANCE TO SUB BRANCHES
Ewan Cameron David Clifton
13. ELECTION OF DELEGATE AND CO-DELEGATE TO NATIONAL CONGRESS State President Deputy State President
14. CONFIRMATION OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS V Reading
Brisbane North District
P Sterling
Far Northern District
P Fairon
Gold Coast District
P Ryan
Moreton District
S Sergeant
North Queensland District
B Vaines
Pioneer-Fitzroy-Highlands District
W Taylor
South Eastern District
T Ferris
Sunshine Coast & Regional District
M Foot OAM
Western District
TBC
Wide Bay & Burnett District
R Cunneen
Appointed Director
15. APPOINTMENT OF AUDITOR 16. DESTRUCTION OF BALLOT PAPERS 17. RSL SIR RAYMOND HUISH, CBE MEMORIAL GRANT
Moved by: Moreton District Seconded: “That the Returned & Services League of Australia (Qld Branch) set aside an amount not less than $2m per annum, topped up annually, for the sole purpose of providing monetary assistance for Sub-Branches procuring welfare centres with the approving authority being each respective District Board”. Rationale At the Returned & Services League of Australia (Qld Branch) Moreton District Branch Inc General Meeting held at Toogoolawah in March 2016, the abovementioned Motion was resolved to progress to the State AGM. This resolution was unanimously carried at that meeting. Sub-Branch representatives at that meeting expressed their disappointment and total displeasure at the State Board directive that no sub-branch would receive any assistance (financial or otherwise) in securing a subbranch welfare facility unless they had been displaced by Anzac House. The intent of this motion is that financial assistance is given to: Traditional Sub-Branches that provide a minimum of 60% of the required funding in acquiring a Sub-Branch welfare center. Moreton District Sub-Branch representatives saw very real merit in the District Board being the approving body as Anzac House are perceived to be removed from the reality of the struggles experienced by Sub-Branches with no welfare centre facilities. With the District Board reporting back directly to Sub-Branch representatives, there is no better gauge of a Sub-Branch’s viability and level of commitment to the League’s Objects than the District Board.
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RULES OF MEMBERSHIP Moved by: Helidon RSL Sub Branch Seconded: “That the rules of the Returned & Services League of Australia (Queensland Branch) be changed to allow affiliate members, in line with NSW RSL rules, eligibility and conditions.” Rationale Queensland is the only state in Australia that does not allow affiliate members. Queensland should lead the way to uniformity within the League especially with membership. The suggestion that “affiliate members will take over” is rubbish and only scare mongering, “The Objects of the League” are the aim. The Objects are supported by many Australians, not just those who served in the defence forces. Our Sub Branch has allowed social members for over 25 years who have been allowed to have a say and vote on all matters except “league matters” for a long time. This still forces this Sub Branch to follow a form of apartheid where the minority rule. Restriction on voting for some members is undemocratic and not the Australian way. If the RSL is to be kept alive in regional and suppressed areas we need to change. To open up the membership which will give a wider opportunity to use the knowledge and skills available on committees. Affiliate membership is not compulsory in Sub Branches in NSW. In NSW 170 Sub Branches have adopted Affiliate Members, about half of the NSW Sub Branches. And the eligibility and conditions must be the same for Queensland in the spirit of unity. SERVICE MEMBERSHIP FOR FAMILY MEMBERS Moved by: Highfields RSL Sub Branch Seconded: “The immediate family of ADF members or NZDF members who are killed in action or killed whist on operations in a theatre of conflict be granted life subscription status of the RSL (Queensland Branch) as at a Sub Branch close to their residence. To qualify for this membership the family member must be a permanent resident of Queensland and be over the age of 18 years of age at the time the membership is granted. Once they are admitted as service members they are then free to
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transfer their service membership to other state branches in accordance with the current transfer requirements. This qualification is to be retrospective and back dated to 14 February 1975 when the Australian Active Medal came into force. Immediate family is to be deemed as: mother and father, spouse or legal de facto partner, sons and daughters (including legally adopted children).” Rationale The family of ADF and NZDF personnel who are killed in action or whilst serving on operations have suffered a great loss. The service members who gave their life would qualify as a service member and it is therefore appropriate that this honour should now be bestowed on their immediate family members. It would allow these family members to become a part of RSL and ex-service community whilst remembering and paying a fitting tribute to the memory of the lost serviceman or woman. SUPPORT FOR ASSURED FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Moved by: Yarraman RSL Sub Branch Seconded: “That the Returned & Services League of Australia (Qld Branch) support the assurance given by the Qld State President, Mr Stewart Cameron, that assistance including financial be provided by RSLA (Qld Branch) to those traditional Sub Branches (who do not have a permanent home) that are seeking premises in order to carry out the Objects of the Returned & Services League of Australia.” Rationale Despite the reported recent State Board decision that unless a Sub-Branch has been displaced by Anzac House there would be no financial support or assistance provided to Sub-Branches in their endeavors to secure a sub-branch facility in order to carry out the objects of the league, Yarraman Sub-Branch believes that such a decision should not be made by a small number of people. More so, we believe it is the members, and indeed members who are affected by this decision that should be empowered to make such a decision at the State AGM. After the close of the Moreton District General Meeting at Esk in June 2015 (prior to the 2015 State AGM) Mr Stewart Cameron (then a nominee for the position of State President) made guarantees to Sub-
Branch representatives that should he be elected, he would ensure that Sub-Branches would receive Anzac House assistance in securing suitable sub-branch accommodation in order to carry out the objects of the League. This was something that Mr Cameron reiterated on a number of occasions (even in the presence of the interim State Secretary) expressly that there would be partial funding and support to the grass roots in securing a premises to carry out welfare activities. Additionally, potential members, young and old alike are not enticed to join the League when the only welfare/ sub-branch facilities are nonexistent or someone’s back shed. Whilst Yarraman Sub-Branch acknowledges that SubBranches endeavoring to acquire their own welfare facilities should contribute extensive monetary and in-kind support, in today’s financial and property market it is almost impossible for a Sub-Branch to secure a commercial loan due to an inability to guarantee a fixed income stream. It should be noted that we at Yarraman Sub-Branch are lucky enough to have a welfare facility and hall to contact meetings provided by Council, however as our members have travelled around and witnessed firsthand the detrimental effect of not having a welfare/sub-branch facility, we are most sympathetic to the plight of these sub-branches in trying to secure a suitable facility.
bedroom home just to make the bed (with clean sheets), clean the toilet and bathroom, vacuum and wash the floors this cannot be completed in the one hour allocated. In a veteran’s circumstances there is not enough time for the service provider to clean the bathroom and toilet or mop the floor. Only make the bed and vacuum rooms. When the veteran asked for additional time of one and a half hours (1 ½) per week he was advised by VHC to have two hours a fortnight instead of one hour per week. Don’t all people change their sheets weekly? It might be ok for Southern people but not acceptable in the Tropical and Regional Australia. He was also advised that VHC can only do the parts of the home the eligible veteran uses. Veterans do, in most cases use all rooms in a home. In this circumstance a visual assessment was not conducted. From DVA Factsheet HCS01: VHC Assessment Agencies assess your needs and approve services if appropriate. Where services are approved, the VHC Assessment Agency, in consultation with you, will arrange services with a contracted VHC Service Provider, A VHC Care Plan will then be sent to you.
19. FUTURE VENUES FOR AGM
CHANGES TO DVA FACTSHEET
2017 RSL (Queensland Branch) Annual General Meeting to be held in Brisbane
Moved by: RSL North Queensland Branch Inc. Seconded by:
2018 RSL (Queensland Branch) Annual General Meeting to be held in Cairns
“That RSL QLD Branch, take this motion forward to RSL National, to lobby DVA to have the DVA Factsheet HCS01, changed to meet the proposal standard of an initial visual assessment, of the Veterans Home and not via a phone call to assess the requirements needed by the Veteran.”
20. CONCLUSION
Rationale VHC services is provided on a weekly or fortnightly basis, dependent on your assessed needs. A phone conversation is not acceptable when you take into account that not all veterans live in a one bedroom home. Veterans do understate their needs and size of rooms. If one hour per week is given in a basic three
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2016 AGM RULES OF PROCEDURE AND DEBATE AND CONDUCT OF MEETINGS 1. Order of Business – As per the Agenda 2. Addressing Chair – A member desiring to speak shall rise in his place and address the Chairman. If two or more members rise at the same time, the Chairman shall call upon the member who, in his opinion, rose first to speak. 3. Respect to Chair – Any member speaking shall at once resume his seat if the Chairman rises to speak or if a point of order is raised, and shall not resume his speech until the Chairman shall resume his seat or the point of order has been decided. 4. Discussion Confined to Motions, Amendments – Subject to the Chairman’s right to permit discussion upon any matter lie deems of importance to the meeting, no discussion shall take place except on a motion or amendment moved and seconded, and put in writing if so requested. 5. Motions – All motions and amendments shall if so required by the meeting concerned be submitted in writing, signed by the mover and seconder, and (a) shall be of an affirmative character (b) once having been submitted shall be the property of the meeting, and shall be withdrawn only by leave of the meeting or by amendment. No motion vitally affecting the policy interests of the League shall be submitted to a meeting without adequate notice. 6. Motion Not Seconded – A motion not seconded shall not be debated, and no entry thereof shall be made in the Minutes of the Meeting. 7. Restriction Upon Speeches – The mover of an original motion shall be allowed four minutes to introduce flee motion and two minutes for the right of reply and the speakers for or against such proposal shall be limited to three minutes, except that at any tune the Conference may resolve, on the motion of a delegate, that the speaker’s time be extended by a specified number of minutes and any such proposal for an extension of time shall be put to the Conference concerned without debate.
No member shall propose more than one amendment upon a motion, and no member shall speak more than once upon a motion or once upon each amendment thereto, except with the permission of the Chairman or except he be the mover of
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the motion, who shall be entitled to the right of reply; provided that, for the purpose of this Rule, an amendment that has become the substantive motion shall be deemed to be a separate motion. Notwithstanding, however, the right to reply given to the mover in the foregoing, the Chairman may, should he consider that there is no practical difference of opinion among the members, stop the discussion and submit the proposition to the meeting. 8. Seconding Without Remarks – A member who uses the words “I second the motion” or “amendment”, as the case may be, shall not be deemed to have spoken to the question before the Chair and may exercise his right to speak at a later stage, always providing he is not the third consecutive speaker on the one side. For the general purpose of debate, however, he shall be deemed the second speaker in the affirmative. 9. Debate – When a motion has been duly proposed and seconded, the Chairman shall proceed to take the votes, unless some member arises to oppose it or to propose an amendment. No more than two members shall speak in succession either for or against any question before the meeting, and if, at the conclusion of the second speaker’s remarks, no member rises to speak on the other side; the motion or amendment shall be at once put to the meeting. 10. Time of Amendment – (a) A motion may be amended at any time during the debate thereon by:
(i) Striking out certain words;
(ii) Adding certain words; or
(iii) Striking out certain words and inserting others in their place.
(b) Any member who wishes to propose a further amendment to the motion shall have power to give notice of amendment and state its nature before the amendment before the Chair has been put to the vote. 11. Amendments – Only one amendment shall be debated at the one time. If the amendment be carried, it shall become the substantive motion, the original motion lapsing, and there shall be no necessity to put the original motion to the meeting.
12. Other Amendments – Whether an amendment is carried or not, other amendments may be submitted, and at a time, to be decided in like manner until the subject is finally disposed of. 13. Amendments Lost – In the case of all amendments being lost, the Chairman shall put the original motion to the vote. 14. Motion Discharged From Agenda – A motion may be superseded at any time: (a) By another that it be discharged from the notice paper; (b) By a motion for the adjournment of the question under consideration; (c) By the adjournment of the meeting; or (d) By a motion “That the next business be proceeded with”, being resolved in the affirmative. 15. Frequency of Speech – A member shall not speak more than once upon any motion before the meeting, except: (a) In reply upon an original motion; (b) In committee of the whole; (c) In explanation; or (d) Upon a point of order raised during a debate. 16. Explanation – Any member who has spoken to a motion may again be heard to explain himself in regard to some part of his speech which the Chairman agrees may have been misquoted or misunderstood but such member shall not introduce any new matter or interrupt any, delegate who may be speaking, and no debatable matter shall be brought forward or debate arise upon such explanation. 17. Motion for question to be Put – A motion “that the question be now put” may be moved at any stage of a debate, and shall be put immediately to the meeting without discussion. If lost, the debate shall continue as if such motion had not been moved. If carried, the mover shall have the right to reply, then the amendment, if there be an amendment, or motion, if no amendment has been moved thereon,
or all amendments have been disposed of shall be put to the meeting without further discussion. No delegate who has spoken to the motion or amendment immediately before the Chair shall be permitted to move “That the question be now put” 18. Restriction on Moving that Question be Put – At any Conference, no motion that the question be now put shall be proposed or seconded by a Delegate from the same District or Sub-Branch as that represented by the Proposer or seconder of the original motion. 19. Notice of Motion – A member may, at any meeting, give a notice of motion for a future meeting by reading such notice to the meeting and handing a copy thereof to the Chairman. Such notice of motion shall take precedence in the order in which it stands in the minute book in relation to other similar notices, unless otherwise ordered by the meeting, and will lapse if the member, or some member on his behalf, be not present when the order for notice is read. 20. Delegate’s Absence – If the Chairman of the Conference declares that an item on the Conference agenda paper may lapse because of the absence of the Delegate proposing the item, the Chairman may accord to another Delegate the right to propose such item to the Conference. 21. Precedence of Business Adjourned Meeting – When a motion for the adjournment of the meeting has been carried, the business then undisposed of shall have precedence in its order at the next meeting. 22. Rescinding Resolutions – Any member wishing to rescind a resolution which has been previously passed by the meeting, must give notice of motion that, at the next meeting, he will move that such a resolution be rescinded. Such notice of motion shall require a majority of two thirds of the votes of members present at the meeting to rescind the resolution in question. 23. Cannot Represent Two Sub Branches – No Delegate shall, at the one time, or in connection with the one motion and/or any amendments thereto, represent or vote on behalf of more than one Sub-Branch or District.
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24. Conducting Vote – The chairman shall put all questions in a distinct and audible voice to the meeting by asking the “Ayes” to vote first and, afterwards, the “Noes”, and shall, thereupon, give his opinion as to which are in the majority, and shall declare a show of hands or a ballot if same is asked for. 25. No Debate During Voting – No members shall speak to any question after it has been put by the Chairman, nor during a vote, except to a point of order. 26. Voting Procedure – No member shall be allowed to vote on any show of hands or ballot who was not present when the question was first put. Every member present must vote, but in the event of a member’s refusal to vote, he shall be assumed to have voted in the negative. No member shall be allowed to enter or leave the room while a vote is being taken. 27. Introduction of Authorised Subjects Only – No member shall be allowed to obtain a discussion upon any subject through the medium or correspondence, but he may introduce the matter, in his place at the meeting, by moving the suspension of Standing Orders. 28. Meeting to Resolve as Committee – The meeting may, at any time, resolve- itself into a Committee of the whole, and such resolution may include the exclusion of the press. So far as possible, however, business to be dealt with in Committee shall be held over until all other business has been transacted. 29. Adjournment of Meeting or Debate – A motion for the adjournment of the meeting may be proposed at any time during a meeting, or for the adjournment of a debate at any time during such debate, and shall be, at once, put to the meeting by the Chairman. 30. Disorderly Conduct – If any member at any such meeting: (a) Persistently and wilfully obstructs the business of any meeting; (b) Is guilty of disorderly conduct; (c) Uses objectionable words and refuses to withdraw such words;
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(d) Persistently and wilfully refuses to conform to these Standing Orders or any one or more of them; (e) Persistently and wilfully disregards the authority of the Chair;
the Chairman may report to the meeting that such member has committed an offence..
31. Apology or Explanation for Offence – When any member has committed an offence, he shall be called upon to stand up in his place and make any explanation or apology he may think fit and, afterwards, a motion may be moved - “That the member be suspended for the sitting of the meeting”. No amendment, adjournments or debate shall be allowed on such motion, which shall be immediately put by the Chairman. 32. Suspension – If any member be suspended, his suspension on the first occasion shall be for the remainder of that sitting; on the second occasion for the sitting of two consecutive meetings; and on the third occasion may, in the case of a member of the State AGM, Board, District Branch or Sub-Branch Committees, have his seat thereon declared vacant. 33. Points of Order – In all cases where a point of order is raised, the member raising the same shall state his point of order clearly and distinctly and with the omission of any irrelevant details. If a member be speaking, such member shall take his seat until the point of order is decided. The Chairman shall decide the matter promptly, and his decision shall be final. Unless his ruling is disagreed with. Points of order shall deal with the conduct or procedure of the debate. The member rising to put the point of order shall be required to prove one or more of the following: (a) That the speaker is using unparliamentarily language; (b) That he is speaking beside the question; (c) That he is transgressing some Rule of the Branch or Sub-Branch; or (d) That he is infringing the Standing Orders or, in the absence of a Standing Order bearing on the point, is acting contrary to the general custom of debate (Points of correction, such as a protest that a speaker is not stating the truth, are not points of order).
34. Disagreement with Chairman’s Ruling – When a motion is moved and seconded “That the Chairman’s ruling be disagreed with,” the Chairman shall forthwith leave the Chair and the debate on the original question then before the Chair shall be suspended. Another Chairman shall then be appointed by the meeting and the question. “That the Chairman’s ruling be disagreed with” shall be discussed and decided, after which the former Chairman shall resume the Chair and the debate on the original question shall be proceeded with as if the same had not been suspended. 35. Suspension of Standing Orders – It shall be competent, by a two-thirds majority vote of the members present and voting, to suspend the Standing Orders, provided the effects of such suspension shall not be the rescission of Rule 34, and provided, further, that the suspension of the Standing Orders shall be limited in its operation to the particular purpose for which the suspension has been sought.
2/3 Majority
1. Suspension Standing Orders at the AGM
2. Removal of Sub-Branch Officers
3. Alteration of Resolution
4. Dismissal of CEO
5. Amendment of Constitution
6. Rescinding Resolutions
7. Suspension of Standing Orders
8. Re-committing of Resolution
36. Re-Committing Resolution – No resolution passed by a meeting shall be again debated or re-committed at the same meeting unless two-thirds of the members present and entitled to vote so agree. 37. Objection to Validity of Vote – Subject to these Rules, the Chairman shall be sole and absolute judge as to the validity of any vote cast on any question, and unless objection to the validity of any vote is raised immediately after the Chairman has declared the result of the vote thereon, its validity cannot be again raised at any subsequent stage of the meeting. 38. Voting Majorities – A rule which calls for either 3/4 or 2/3 majority, simply means that 3/4’s or 2/3rds respectively of the members present at a meeting shall be in favour. The following rules call for either 3/4 or 2/3 majority: 3/4 Majority
1. Expulsion of Sub-Branch
2. Special Resolutions (General Meetings)
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tecc site plan
CH RM 2 DR 3
Loading Dock
CH RM 1 DR1 Entrance to Dressing room corridor from stage
DR 2
1.5m (rear curtain line)
Magnetic Room
Prod Off Food Servery
Orpheus Room
Bar
Auditorium
Yongala Room
Seating
Female Toilets
Male Toilets
Male Toilets
Female Toilets
Queensland Foyer
Cleveland Room
Administration
Palm Room
