Granite Borders Landcare Committee

Granite Borders Landcare Annual General Meeting

11th Jun 2025

Granite Borders Landcare Committee will hold their Annual General Meeting (AGM) on the 11th of June, 2025, from 5pm.

Please note that our Annual General Meeting is open to all Granite Borders Landcare members.

The evening will include:

5pm | Annual General Meeting

Guest Interim Chair TBA from our Regional Landcare Network

5:30pm | General Meeting

Fire to Flourish Project reviews

  1. Tenterfield Naturalists, Tenterfield Park Partnership

  2. Tenterfield Community Garden Upgrades

  3. Focus on Feathers, Volunteer Community Bushfire Preparedness and Response

New Landcare Group updates and previews

  1. Border Landcare Organic Group, BLOG

  2. Granite Borders Botanic Garden concept - Muwa Djali Botanic Garden

6pm | Guest Speaker presentation

Dr Andrew Thornhill, Lecture in Plant Systematics, the University of New England.

Andrew will be talking about his involvement in and knowledge of herbaria and botanical gardens, including the role they play in research, education and understanding botanical life. A timely talk given the general interest in a Botanic Garden for the Granite Belt country.

Andrew has worked in various herbaria, including:

  • The Australian National Herbarium (CSIRO, Canberra)
  • The Australian Tropical Herbarium (James Cook University, Cairns)
  • The University and Jepson Herbaria (University of California, Berkeley)
  • The State Herbarium of South Australia (Adelaide).
  • NCW Beadle Herbarium, University of New England

7pm | Light hot dinner and desert

Spend time catching up with folks familiar and new.

Tea and coffee will be available throughout the evening.

Granite Borders Landcare Committee Executive Committee Nominations

If you are interested in nominating yourself or someone else for our Executive Committee, please keep in mind that nominations close on the 27th May 2025.

We will be having a Q&A and information session for prospective Executive Committee members prior to the AGM, so please act soon. Nomination forms are available at our office, as well as on our website under Events > Granite Borders Landcare AGM. Executive Committee nominees will be contacted directly regarding the date and time of this informal Q&A session.

The list of new Executive Committee Nominees will be posted at the Landcare Office two weeks before the AGM. Please consider who you would like to vote for prior to the evening of voting. Proxy Forms are also available at the Office and on our website, if you cannot make the AGM in person.

To attend our AGM, please register here, or contact the team at the Landcare Office at: (02) 6736 3500/ landcare@gblc.org.au.