#88 News Leaf_News Leaf - Biodynamic Agriculture Australia
#88 News Leaf_News Leaf - Biodynamic Agriculture Australia
#88 News Leaf_News Leaf - Biodynamic Agriculture Australia
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<strong>Biodynamic</strong> <strong>Agriculture</strong> <strong>Australia</strong> Ltd<br />
Your Company, Your Board…<br />
Ray Unger, Chair ................................(02) 6869 7635 ....ray@ipstarmail.com.au<br />
Carolyn Ditchfield, Deputy Chair ......(02) 6721 5111 ....carolyn@fromthesoilup.com.au<br />
Ted Clarke, Treasurer .........................(02) 6649 2132 ....tedpeggy@bigpond.net.au<br />
Hugh Lovel, Director .........................(02) 6779 1136 ....hugh.lovel9@bigpond.com<br />
Shane Joyce, Director ..........................(07) 4993 1880 ....sjoyce1@bordernet.com.au<br />
John Priestley, Director .......................(02) 4938 5116 ....jdcitrus@bigpond.net.au<br />
Wayne Rankine, Director....................(07) 4091 1938 ....brolgascrossing@gmail.com<br />
Louise Skidmore, Secretary ...............(07) 4697 3148 ....lskidmore@aapt.net.au<br />
An accountable, transparent and consultative Board will ensure that it has<br />
good policies and procedures in place so that all decisions are made fairly and<br />
transparently. This will help remove any perceptions that Board processes are<br />
carried out in undue secrecy or that things are being hidden…<br />
Using the website to publish information about your Company and the Board:<br />
• The minutes of each Board meeting are published here:<br />
http://www.biodynamics.net.au/annualreports.htm<br />
• Board members’ Disclosure and Conflict of Interest declarations are on the website,<br />
• Financial Statements are available on the website,<br />
• Lists of members by State are available upon request.<br />
Practical measures that the Board has put in place to ensure your Company<br />
becomes more consultative with a diversity strategy to ensure that the views of<br />
members are adequately represented on the Board:<br />
• Emails and letters circulated to Board members,<br />
• Phone numbers of Board available if members want personal contact,<br />
• Letters to the <strong>News</strong> <strong>Leaf</strong> Editor.<br />
Maintaining a communications strategy to ensure that Board decisions are<br />
explained and widely known:<br />
• Board Update in <strong>News</strong> <strong>Leaf</strong>,<br />
• Letter from the Chair.<br />
Seeking input from members when key decisions are being contemplated or a<br />
change in direction is being considered:<br />
• Inviting members to join committees to make recommendations to the Board,<br />
• AGM and National Conference.<br />
<strong>News</strong> <strong>Leaf</strong> <strong>#88</strong> ~ Journal of <strong>Biodynamic</strong> <strong>Agriculture</strong> <strong>Australia</strong> Ltd
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