We hope you can make it along to our final branch meeting for 2024, on Saturday, 12th October, at the Mid-Mountains Neighbourhood Centre, 9 New Street Lawson, at 10.00am. Our regular raffle offers great prizes and is an important fundraiser for our branch. Friends of ABC Friends are most welcome to join us!
Have a look at the October 2024 Newsletter for information about our AGM in November.
The NSW/ACT state branch is organising a webinar to discuss the growing problem of misinformation in political advertising; titled Truth in Political Advertising.
Unlike commercial advertising, truth in political advertising has no legal protections outside of South Australia and the ACT. The importance of truth, and absence of misinformation, cannot be underestimated as a key factor for protecting our democracy and optimal electoral outcomes. This webinar will provide contributions from three speakers (Zali Steggall, Ullrich Ecker & Geoffrey Watson) who are each making valuable contributions to this issue and will be expertly moderated by a highly experienced journalist (Anne Maria Nicholson).
While this webinar is free and open to all, you will still need to register beforehand at https://www.abcfriends.net.au/truth_webinar2024. Registration is available from 20 September.
Thankyou for any consideration you can provide on this matter. All the best,
Bruce Stevenson (Branches Coordinator; on behalf of NSW/ACT state committee)
For more details, please click on the following link.
Our next branch meeting will be on Saturday 10th August at the Mid-Mountains Neighbourhood Centre, 9 New St, Lawson at 10.00am. We are very fortunate to have procured a compelling and engaging guest speaker, Ken Enderby, to address our meeting.
About Ken Enderby:
Ken Enderby is President of Climate Action BurwoodCanada Bay, a dynamic community-based group. He will share his insights about effective grass-roots activism, successful lettersto-the-editor writing (he even gets letters into The Australian!), the importance of the ABC in honest discourse about global heating and the need for climate action. He will also be pleased to take any questions about household energy-saving strategies and EVs. Ken has been a campaigner for peace, human rights and economic development for 45 years, working on projects in Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Up until his retirement in 2019, he was head teacher of Career Pathways at Bankstown TAFE, where he taught history, economics and politics. Since then, he has focused his attention on climate change and has been president of Climate Action BurwoodCanada Bay since 2021. He is also a mentor with Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project and a facilitator with Climate for Change.
The next coffee morningis at 10.00 am, Sat, July 13 at Springwood Sports Club. [Note that this is a change from earlier announcements.]
Our June Branch Meeting will be held on Saturday 8 June at 10.00am. The venue will be the Grace Tooth Room, the Mid-Mountains Neighbourhood Centre, at 9 New St, Lawson.
We’ll place an ABC Friends Blue Mountains poster outside the room, sporting the newish ABC Friends logo. We will provide refreshments at around 11.00am.
For lunch we are going to the Chinese Restaurant, at the Lawson Bowling Club, 2 Loftus Street, Lawson.
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