ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA
Bushfire toll rises
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everal orienteering families have been hit by the Victorian bushfires. The thoughts of all Australian orienteers are with the families of those who perished. •M ountain Bike orienteer – Rob Davey, and his family. •P ark & Street orienteer – Carolyn O’Gorman and her family. •D avid and Kate Whittington – parents of Tasmanian orienteer John Whittington.
Vale Alec MacKelden
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ur first sponsor of Orienteering back in 1971 was Cerebos with their product “Refresh” - a concentrated powder orange drink mix. The Managing Director, Alec MacKelden, was impressed with this new sport and advanced something like $5,000 towards the cost of running the inaugural Australia v New Zealand Challenge held near Puckapunyal, in central Victoria. Part of the sponsorship paid for the production of a quantity of car stickers bearing the message “Up with Orienteering, down with Refresh”. Alec retired some ten years ago and settled on the Gold Coast whilst taking up voluntary duties as Chairman of the Board of the Skin & Cancer Foundation Australia. He was also awarded with the Medal of the Order of Australia. Alec passed away in November and will be remembered as our sport’s first commercial sponsor. Tom Andrews
Executive Matters Kay Grzadka – OA Executive Officer
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rienteering Australia will continue to receive Federal Government funding for its High Performance program until 2010 but the situation beyond that is not assured. The Federal Government awaits the findings of the Independent Sport Review to finalise its policy for funding sport in Australia.
Given this climate of uncertainty, long term strategic planning is high on the Board’s agenda and was the topic of a workshop at the 2008 Annual Conference. Under the invaluable direction of Ian Dodd (President, VOA) the Board and Council members broke into defined groups to each discuss a particular aspect of long term strategic planning.
The outcome of the workshop was the appointment by the Board of a Working Group tasked with preparing a strategic direction framework for Orienteering Australia. The Working Group is to have a brief prepared by February 2009 for consideration by the Board. The framework would then be distributed to State Associations for comment before presentation at the OA Annual General Meeting to be held in Launceston on 11 April 2009.
Embargoes: VICTORIA The areas covered by the following maps are embargoed until after the 2009 Australian Orienteering Championships Carnival; September 26th October 4th. • Chewton Diggings (Castlemaine) • Castlemaine Goldfields (Castlemaine) • Crocodile Reservoir (Castlemaine) • Browns Reef (Bendigo) • Warby Range (Wangaratta) • Jubilee Creek (Wangaratta) • Triptera (Wangaratta) The following area in Benalla is embargoed to intending participants in the 2009 Australian Sprint Orienteering Championships: The area bounded on the north by Bridge Street (the main street through town), on the east by Coster Street and the Benalla-Tatong Road (C517), on the west by Thomas Street, and on the south by the town boundary. Shops and accommodation on the south side of the road along Bridge Street are not included in the embargo, but parks and the Showgrounds are. Jim Russell – Carnival Coordinator
QUEENSLAND
Attendees at OA Conference – December 2008 Back row: Eric Morris, John Toomey , Blair Trewin, Ben Rattray, Craig Steffens, Dave Meyer, Ian Dalton, Liz Bourne, Nick Dent. Middle row: Robert Spry, Miriam Whittington, Ian Dodd, Paul Prudhoe, Andy Hogg, Reid Moran, Hugh Cameron, Robin Uppill, Bob Allison. Front row: Bill Jones (OA President), Geoff Wood, Bruce Arthur, Jenny Casanova, Kay Grzadka (OA Executive Officer). Absent from the photo: Mike Dowling, Ann Scown, Christine Brown. 42 THE AUSTRALIAN ORIENTEER MARCH 2009
The area north of the Biggenden to Maryborough Road, including in the orienteering maps North of Aramara, Aramara State Forest and Hidden Glen, is embargoed from 1 October 2008 to all orienteers and rogainers. This embargo will gradually be lifted between 2010 and 2012. Eric Andrews
