<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> RDA NSW Mudgee Centre <mudgee.rda@hotmail.com><br><b>Date:</b> 18 September 2024 at 3:57:54 PM AEST<br><b>To:</b> RDANSW State Office <stateoffice@rdansw.org.au>, Directors 2024 current <board@rdansw.org.au>, Centres@rdansw.org.au, lifemember <lifemember@rdansw.org.au><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Fw: [Centres] FW: [Lifemember] FW: Working Party</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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We are in total agreement with the comments made by Maureen Turner (Life Member),</div>
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That RDA should be all about the Riders, Horses and Volunteers and we are extremely disappointed with the treatment of volunteers and the Board by a select few individuals.</div>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Centres] FW: [Lifemember] FW: Working Party</font>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Lifemember] FW: [Centres] Working Party</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">I cannot express fully enough my absolute disappointment at the opinions currently being expressed with regard to the Board of Directors.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">These people are all volunteers, they were voted in by the very people who are now opposing them.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">If you do not like the manner in which they are conducting the business of the Board vote them out at the next AGM. </p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">It is childish to whinge in social media. </p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Over the last recent time I have read letter after letter denigrating people who are doing the best they can. I think back to my time serving on the Board, 1983 to 1998, eight of those years as President.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">We worked hard, at times very hard, we often argued and disagreed in the boardroom but we remained friends and workmates.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">We encouraged the formation of small centres and travelled thousands of kilometres in support of those coaches, riders and volunteers. </p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">The rider in the most remote centre in NSW is every bit as important as those in the big centres. </p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">We were not reimbursed for all that early travel. </p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">In all of the latest ‘correspondence’ I have not heard the mention of riders or horses, it is all about people and differences of opinion. </p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Please people, get over your petty arguments. Cease criticising the very people you put in place. </p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Work with them to ensure that every rider in NSW gets to achieve their own goals. </p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">If you are still unhappy change it all in the ballot box, not by denigrating your current Directors.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Do not destroy the organisation I gave almost 50 years of my life to support and build.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">When we lead a horse to the mounting block the rider trusts us and relies on us to help them achieve what is unachievable. </p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 17 September 2024 10:48 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Greg Urand <<a href="mailto:greg.urand@rdansw.org.au" target="_blank">greg.urand@rdansw.org.au</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:stateoffice@rdansw.org.au" target="_blank">stateoffice@rdansw.org.au</a>;
<a href="mailto:centres@rdansw.org.au" target="_blank">centres@rdansw.org.au</a>;
<a href="mailto:lifemember@rdansw.org.au" target="_blank">lifemember@rdansw.org.au</a>; RDA NSW BOARD <<a href="mailto:board@rdansw.org.au" target="_blank">board@rdansw.org.au</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Lifemember] [Centres] Working Party</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">Morning Greg,</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">I am writing this purely in my capacity as a Life Member of RDA(NSW),just a few points that I find a little confusing in your email to everyone.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">I don’t understand your accusation that the letter sent by the majority of Directors of the Board in no way reflects the opinion of this same Board. Surely if 5 out of 6 Directors have signed off on this and it appears that only
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">The Directors are elected representatives of the members so are the primary governing body of the Association. I received an email the week before last with the Board’s proposal regarding the review and drafting of the State
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to review the SC , you offer your support and actually denounce other Directors. </p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">Dear RDA NSW Centres & Volunteers</p>
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As the Chairperson of the RDA NSW Board, I was not consulted in anyway, shape or form in the drafting of the letter that went out this evening purporting to be from the RDA NSW Board (see below).</p>
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I would like to make it crystal clear that the below email is not the position of the RDA NSW Board, nor the RDA NSW organisation. It would appear that some members of the current Board have, funnily enough, set up their own Working Party.</p>
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This, under any other circumstances, might appear to be amusing.</p>
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However, the individuals responsible for the attached email from the ‘Board Working Party’ may have, in my opinion, made some very serious accusations that could be defamatory.</p>
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I believe that this is a most unfortunate development, and extremely counterproductive to what appears to be a genuine attempt by the Constitutional Review Working Party to generate a constructive process, under the Constitution, to solve a number of problems
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I believe that in order to quickly deescalate the situation, we should offer the ‘Board Working Party’ the opportunity to withdraw their email immediately. If they do so by midday tomorrow, Tuesday 17 September 2024, then I would urge any parties mentioned
in the withdrawn email to overlook some of the comments that may have been made in the heat of the moment.</p>
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So, with that issue squared away, let’s look to the future…</p>
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I have had time to review the proposal and requisition request of the Constitutional Review Working Party.</p>
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Having reviewed the Constitution, it appears that the Constitutional Review Working Party (Working Party) has submitted a compliant set of papers.<br>
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I have already called a Board Meeting for Wednesday evening where I will make my understanding of the Constitutional compliance of the Requisition Letter clear. I will make it clear that the Board must follow the Constitution and do all that is necessary to
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I note that the Board came out with its suggested pathway forward on the Constitution last week. However, the only way to change the Constitution is a Special General Meeting. So, either way we need to have an SGM, where all points of view will be considered.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">Greg</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">Greg Urand</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">Hon Director, Chairperson</p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b><a href="mailto:stateoffice@rdansw.org.au" target="_blank">stateoffice@rdansw.org.au</a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 16 September 2024 5:15 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:Centres@rdansw.org.au" target="_blank">Centres@rdansw.org.au</a>;
<a href="mailto:lifemember@rdansw.org.au" target="_blank">lifemember@rdansw.org.au</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Centres] Working Party<br>
<b>Importance:</b> High</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">Hi all</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">Please see the email below and attached Minutes of the EGM held on 15 July 2001 referred to in this email below.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">From the Board Members noted below</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="">To those with the self-appointed name of The RDA Constitutional Working Party.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:"Abadi",sans-serif">We have perused the letters circulated around the centres and the organisation and believe that these unauthorised communications are from an unsupported Group with members in Centres
who may not necessarily know of, nor condone their membership of, this Party. These<u>
</u>centres have not submitted minutes that have proposed the establishment of this party nor advised their supposed members’ representation.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:"Abadi",sans-serif">It is abysmal that, instead of assisting the Board in a positive manner, these Working Party are continuing to subject the present voluntary board members to constant harassment, denigration,
and demonisation. The current Board are accused of being slow in dealing with matters however the continuing behaviour of a few means that time is taken away from everyone else and incurring ongoing legal expenses in actions resulting from their demands.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:"Abadi",sans-serif">Whilst the current Board members want to represent
<b>ALL</b> of the Centres, this current behaviour appears to be motivated by money and power struggles - it is abhorrent, does not correlate to RDA’s mission and value statements and should not be tolerated. This has been going on for some time and was addressed
by Kerry Johnstone in the attached statement.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:"Abadi",sans-serif">For clarity, the following members of this party, who are attempting to demonise current Board Member behaviour, have the following history and current standing in our organisation:
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</span><span style="font-family:"Abadi",sans-serif">Charles McClintock under suspension from RDA (NSW).
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</span><span style="font-family:"Abadi",sans-serif">Anna Rimac is under suspension from the RDA (NSW); the legal proceedings are still pending.</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Abadi",sans-serif">Anna Rimac, Graeme Gulliver and Helen Fauske are from Ballina Centre (on RDA owned land) - which is under administration. Directors, CASP and the Regional Representative/Administrator’s attempt to attend the
centre (to work on a pathway forward out of administration) have been denied access on many occasions and they have been treated with bullying, intimidation and legal threats to instil fear.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:"Abadi",sans-serif">Note that Bruce Manefield is an external consultant in private business who
<u>has not been given authority</u> by the current Board to formulate a new Constitution, nor to assist in preparing paperwork nor to conduct special general meetings in this regard.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:"Abadi",sans-serif">The actions of these people are in direct contradiction to the very principles behind RDA (NSW), an organisation that is supposed to have volunteers who have empathy towards others
and who are expected to be here to help and assist people who have a disability, not as a means of showing how important these named people consider themselves to be while, at the same time, adversely affecting the operations of RDA (NSW) and denigrating others.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:"ADLaM Display"">For and on behalf of the majority of RDA(NSW) Directors</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:"ADLaM Display"">Kind Regards</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:"ADLaM Display"; color:#215E99">Olwen Smith,Linda Bower,Tracy Lucas,Allan Burton and James Van-Lane</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:"ADLaM Display"">Email – <span style="color:#45B0E1"><a href="mailto:board@rdansw.org.au" target="_blank">board@rdansw.org.au</a></span></span></p>
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