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ACA call for Blood!!! 15-Sep-2009 At 8:14:18 PM jkane

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Haven't had a chance to read this whole thread yet but I just wanted to answer this point by Kyle

>>* Attempted to have a dialogue with the VCC - they rejected our affiliation proposal and refused to give any explanation.

I was Secraetary at the time. I'm not on the committee any more. We didn't "refuse" to give you a reason, we (I) just never got around to it. Sorry if that's how you saw it. It was a bit tricky to give you a reason, basically the committee decided not to go with the affiliation thing, those who had an opinion had their own different reasons.

Speaking personally, I'm not keen on the way you set yourselves up as a "National Body". It's nothing like the way the BMC evolved. I think that it would be good to see the regional clubs working together but it should be up to the clubs to approach eachother and form an affiliation.

I'm also not that convinced about the need for a national body on access issues. Our major landowner in Vic is Parks Victoria. If a federal issue ever came up, that would be the time to band together and all that.

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Have now had a pretty good read through. Nothing really to add except that I only ever received a couple of emails from Kyle. Maybe ACA did pick up the phone and speak personally to some of the other Committee members but I was not aware of this. I know not everyone has good interpersonal skills (e.g. me) especially with today's technology driven communications etc, but I think that would go a lot further than an email. So I guess I'm saying just beacuse you got one knock back doesn't necessarily mean you should chuck the towel in. The VCC committee changes from year to year and the new committee may feel differently (not a hint, I really couldn't say).