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JULIA, WHY WON’T YOU STAND UP FOR OUR COMMUNITY MS GILLARD, YOU PROMISED TO SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY. NOW WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT. Your government’s proposed gambling laws will cost our Victorian clubs and pubs $1.48 billion in the first year alone. This means they will no longer be able to fund local community groups, charities and sporting teams. The new laws won’t help problem gamblers but they will hurt our community. WONTWORKWILLHURT.COM.AU Authorised by W Krelle for Clubs Australia, Level 8, 51 Druitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000. 6 CLUBConnect October 2011
After 95 years Clubs Victoria Still performing strong Clubs Vicoria President Peter Craig This is an edited version of the Presidents Report to members at the Annual General Meeting on 26 th October 2011. The recently presented Annual Report of Clubs Victoria marks the 95th year of operation for our organisation and saw significant changes initiated that will help ensure it is serving Victorian Licenced Clubs for another 95 years. As mentioned in last year’s report, significant changes were required to Clubs Victoria given the new gaming era almost upon us and the significant loss of recurrent revenue from the gaming operators following the Government’s announcement of the changes. It became obvious to the Council and Management, early in the financial year, that whilst our members were supporting the development of our Project Mercury, this was not going to be a recurrent revenue stream initially anticipated and there were urgent steps required to ensure the financial stability of Clubs Victoria. The Council felt it would be best served by taking the decision to separate from Project Mercury. I congratulate George Csifo, President and David Baldi, General Manager, on their work to establish Mercury as a leading Service Provider to the gaming industry and as a long term supporter of Clubs Victoria. Following this decision, the Council also considered a complete review of the services provided by Clubs Victoria given the financial position the organisation faced. Throughout the changes our aim has always been to continue to provide levels of service to our members equivalent or better than previously; however, this was only possible with considerable change to our operations. December 2010 saw staff redundancies, followed shortly after by a change of address to a more modest abode at the Celtic Club in the Melbourne CBD. I thank these staff of Clubs Victoria for their many years of loyal service but with change comes opportunity and it is great to see them still in the gaming/club industry as their considerable experience will not be lost. Again the previous year seems like it was dominated by issues surrounding gaming, with the new era now less than twelve months away. Most Clubs have now made up their minds with regard to their directions post August 2012, and Clubs Victoria will continue to lead in its advocacy role as transitional issues arise. Federally, our unique Parliamentary position with a minority government has created its own problems, with a Tasmanian independent able to get the Government to support mandatory precommitment legislation that jeopardies our gaming businesses. Clubs Victoria has been active with Clubs Australia in a public awareness campaign of the damage to the Club industry that such legislation will bring. The ‘It’s un-Australian’ campaign has been successful to date, but our work won’t finish until this issue is resolved in favour of the clubs sector. Our position and that recommend by Clubs Australia is support for voluntary precommitment and at the very least a trial for a mandatory regime. We do not favour the poor approach to negotiation that has been undertaken at this time by the government. Issues away from gaming of vital importance to our members included the award changes, namely the Registered and Licensed Club Award 2010. The Clubs Victoria ER Team lead by Nick Tindley have been of great assistance to clubs and the Council remains committed to ensuring members and the sector receive professional and adequate service. Our Clubs Victoria Member Connect meetings have taken on a new format throughout the year and these business sessions have proved very popular with important Industry leaders headlining the sessions. We have also introduced a new look Club Connect magazine that has been distributed to all Clubs in Victoria to raise awareness of the many issues impacting the sector.. A highlight of every year is the Annual Clubs Victoria Achievement Awards Night at Crown and special recognition should go to the 2010 Club of the Year, the Essendon Football Club at Windy Hill, collecting this prize for the second year in a row. The wonderful contribution they make to not only their local area but across Victoria makes them a very worthy winner. This year the event will have a Christmas theme and Brian Cadd and Russell Morris have been booked to get the crowd rocking. Contd. pg8 CLUBConnect October 2011 7
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