Minutes of the previous AGM were approved.
The President's Annual Report was approved.
The Financial Statement was withheld pending a minor correction and will be submitted to an extraordinary General Meeting, to be advised.
| President |
Peter Isaacson |
| Vice President |
Rod Benjamin |
| Secretary |
Bruce Lancashire |
| Treasurer |
Frank Egan |
| Members: |
Meg Adams |
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Marie Hamerton |
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Claus Gyrn |
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John Howell |
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Ruth Muir |
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Gillian Yung |
A number of changes to the Rules of Association were agreed to at the AGM and will be submitted to the Department of Justice for approval to formalise the changes.
The Annual General Meeting was followed by a talk.
Speaker: Dr. John Swan, AO
The demand for food (especially high-protein food) is growing rapidly, in step with a projected major growth in world populations. This talk will explore the linkages between the availability of land for agriculture, the growth of cities, the need for fertilizers (especially the critically important nutrient phosphate) and the parallel problem of waste treatment.
Controlled sewage disposal is essential to human health in cities, but is leading to a one-way loss of phosphate to the world's oceans. Some possible means for converting this 'positive feedback' (where the problem gets bigger and more expensive year by year) to 'negative feedback' will be examined.
