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At Huskisson & Woollamia Community Voice we aim to operate with as little procedural formality as we can.  We also aim to address issues rather than motions

We have intentionally chosen an informal committee structure.  The executive committee is elected at the Annual General Meeting in October each year

THE COMMITTEE
Text Box: A portrait of William Huskisson MP, by Richard Rothwell. Born on 11th March 1770, Huskisson was a British statesman and Member of Parliament. During the years 1827 to 1828 he was the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, and Leader of the House of Commons. Huskisson was the world’s first recorded railway casualty, having been accidentally killed by George Stephenson’s Rocket on 15 September 1830, at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

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Text Box: From 1840, when the Wool Road from Braidwood to Jervis Bay began to be built using convict labour, the Governor of NSW, Sir George Gipps, who had known William Huskisson, used the name for the village. Text Box: An interesting reference is ‘The Last Journey of William Huskisson’ by Simon Garfield, Faber and Faber Limited, 2002. Garfield writes that in 1828, Huskisson concerned himself: ‘..with constituency matters and delivered strong speeches on commerce (promoting familiar reductions in silk and sugar duties), on the economy (the role of the Bank of England), and foreign matters (the relationship with Portugal, Mexico and Africa).’ Garfield goes on to say: ‘the Spectator observed...The secret of his oratory lay in the facility with which he could bring a number of facts to bear upon his argument, and in the soundness and comprehensiveness of his general views. He was not an opponent with whom it was easy to grapple, for he disdained all slippery arts of avoiding an antagonist; but he was one whom the stoutest champion found it impossible to throw’.

Your 2009 -  2010  Committee was elected at the October 2009 AGM :

Chair:

  Leslie Lockwood

Treasurer:

  Garry Kelson

Secretary:

  Sandra Keppo

Committee member:

  Roger Hart, Marco Verdugo