Day Three
Again greeted by a beautiful flower design at Conference entrance

Dorothy Coombe and Wendy Earwicker admiring the beautiful flower work of art.

Election Results

ACWW World President - Ruth Shanks, Australia
Ruth received a very large vote showing very large support.
South Pacific Area President -Margaret Sullivan, Western Australia
This was a very close result
 

Resolutions discussed

Constitutional - an urgency resolution has been put forward. These details have been circulated and we come back to it after 48 hours has lapsed.

General

Maternal Health - Carried Unanimously
'Be it resolved the ACWW Member Societies urge their governments to provide a well trained and resourced quality maternity health service and to improve maternal health education for all women and girls to ensure the best outcomes for mother and baby, giving particular regard to the special needs and isolation of rural women'.

Stop Use of Bisphenol A - Carried
'Be it resolved that ACWW and its member organisations strongly urge their government to banish the use of the hazardous chemical Bisphenol A (BPA). This chemical is the main building block of polycarbonate plastics and is used in many consumer products and household goods, such as food and drink containers, plastic baby bottles, medical devices, sports equipment and toys. The chemical components are dissolved and leach into their contents, poisoning our bodies and damaging our health',

Registration of Births - Carried with amendment.
'Be it resolved the ACWW member societies urge their governments to record without prejudice the births of all children born within their jurisdiction to ensure that all children are recognised as citizens'.

               Dorothy Coombe, Wendy Earwicker, Glenys Ball and Lynette Harris - at work

Second day of Conference finished

Voting for various positions took place today,

The South Pacific Area President position required a second round vote, also the position of World President.

South Pacific Area President
Second Round vote : 2 nominations have gone forward to this stage. 
Lyn Harris - The Country Women's Association of Victoria
Margaret Sullivan - The Country Women's Association of Western Australia

 

Lyn Harris on the stage delivering her one minute presentation.

ACWW World President position - Ruth Shanks has gone forward in the 2nd round together with Jo Ellen Almond.

 

A beautiful flower design greeted us on our arrival.

Food has featured - wonderful array of sweets where we are staying

 

Greetings from India,

The ACWW 27th Triennial Conference commenced today.

Victoria has 12 members and 2 partners attending this Conference. There are some 80 women attending from across the South Pacific Area.

The opening Ceremony has been filmed and can be viewed on www.dmiinternational.in

It was a spectacular event.
Arriving at the Conference Venue we were greeted by a line of drummers.

Once inside the Venue there was a beautiful flower landscape

More photos coming.

 

Not long now and we will be heading off to Chennai - we have had all the injections, started to pack our bags.

We have had advise that items that were posted
earlier in the week have arrived safely and are awaiting our arrival.

For those wondering why we might be sending items to Chennai -
We have issued an invitation to ACWW members to hold the 2019 ACWW World Triennial Conference in Melbourne, Victoria
and therefore have some printed handouts ready to 'handout' just in case our Invitation is accepted.

Over the time of the Conference - from 26th September - we will try to post daily updates on this Blog (provided technology works of course)
We are hoping we will be able to share the Conference with you.