23/07/2025
Hello everybody,
Last night I accepted the nomination as president of Nambucca Environment Network. My background is in horticulture, I have been a horticulturist for 45 years. I’m a member of the Australian Institute of Horticulture and on the National Council of that organization and I am thoroughly committed to improving our environment locally and nationally. Thank you everybody for the hard work you’ve done, getting notice from government and other organizations and in particular thank you Raewen for your dogged determination in attracting attention to the serious situation underway in this area. As well as horticulture I’ve been involved in marketing, fisheries and compliance with the Department of Agriculture as well as education with TAFE New South Wales in my career. I’m also very familiar with the blueberry industry and know many of the people involved. There is a lot of work to do, to begin with we need to market NEN , and link with like-minded environmental groups up and down the coast. Prior to all that we need to plan. I have some ideas which I’ll assemble in the next two weeks and hopefully we can have a meeting regarding those suggestions and any others you may have. An important part of planning is defining your purpose. We call this mission statement. It needs to be short, relevant and persuasive. I welcome teverybody’s thoughts on this. The issues we face are happening along the entire north coast of New South Wales. We have a significant group of members and we need to activate them by showing them some results and prevailing on them for some help. Thanks very much for this great honor and I hope to help us serve our community and our environment effectively to improve practices and protect our local environment. 
