Party posts up for election: nominations close 7 January

By Mark Pack | Wed 29th December 2010 - 10:25 am

News from David Allworthy, the Deputy Acting Returning Officer:

Nominations are now open for the election of:
· Chair of the Federal Finance & Administration Committee (FFAC)*
· Five members of the FFAC
· Party Treasurer
· Chair of the Campaigns & Communications Committee (CCC)
· Chair of the International Relations Committee (IRC)
· Two members of the IRC
· One representative on ELDR Council
· Two representatives on ELDR Congress
· Two representatives on the Liberal International (LI) Executive
· Two representatives to the LI Congress
· Chair Campaign For Gender Balance
· Two Vice Chairs Campaign For Gender Balance
· Three members of the Diversity Engagement Group

*The Chair of the FFAC is registered as the Party’s Treasurer for the purposes of the PPERA 2000, and as such is responsible for signing the Party’s quarterly donation declarations and meeting the accounting requirements laid down by to the Electoral Commission.

Any party member may stand for these posts and all persons elected to them will hold office for the calendar years 2011 and 2012.

Nominations must be supported by two voting members of the outgoing or incoming Federal Executive and the deadline is 7 January. Elections will take place at the Federal Executive meeting on 17 January 2011.

Nomination packs are available from [email protected]

4 Comments

Richard Davis 29th Dec '10 - 10:26am

Is it not the 7th that nominations close?
Mark Pack 29th Dec '10 - 11:58am

Thanks Richard – I’ve made clearer the distinction between close of nominations and actual election in the text (one is 7th other is 17th) and also fixed the headline.
KL 29th Dec '10 - 2:14pm

Just a thought – if the Chair of FFAC is registered as the party treasurer, why is there a second election for a party treasurer? I’m sure there’s a good reason (workload?) but just a bit confused…
Mark Pack 29th Dec '10 - 2:18pm

KL: In brief, “treasurer” can mean one of two things – look after the books or raise money. Under the law, our registered treasurer has the former role (and so it’s the chair of the FFAC), but we also have someone else who does the latter.