{"id":38087,"date":"2017-08-28T10:51:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T00:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=38087"},"modified":"2017-08-28T12:37:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T02:37:47","slug":"sir-bob-geldof-to-address-afa-national-advisers-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2017\/08\/28\/sir-bob-geldof-to-address-afa-national-advisers-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Bob Geldof to Address AFA National Advisers Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AFA has announced that British musician and a humanitarian <strong>Sir Bob Geldof<\/strong> KBE will address delegates at this years <a href=\"http:\/\/afaconference.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">AFA National Adviser Conference<\/a> on the Gold Coast.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38088\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38088\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2017\/08\/Sir-Bob.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38088\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38088\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2017\/08\/Sir-Bob.jpg\" alt=\"Sir Bob Geldhof KBE\" width=\"150\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sir Bob Geldof KBE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Geldof will be the headline speaker at the conference and is known for his work in helping people in poverty and the aid organisations which assist them. He came to fame as\u00a0the lead singer of the Boomtown Rats and the founder of Band Aid and organiser of Live Aid.<\/p>\n<p>He has been nominated twice for a Nobel Peace Prize and was named Fellow of Mansfield College Oxford in recognition of his humanitarian work in poverty areas.<\/p>\n<p>The AFA, in conjunction with TAL, stated it would be offering complimentary seats to the partners of financial advisers who wished to see Geldof speak at the conference.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement follows the <a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2017\/08\/22\/news-in-brief-216\/\">recent release of the program and speaker line-up for the conference <\/a>which includes an address from Minister for Revenue and Financial Services,\u00a0<strong>Kelly O\u2019Dwyer and <\/strong>Shadow Minister for Small Business and Financial Services, Senator\u00a0<strong>Katy Gallagher<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AFA has announced that British musician and a humanitarian Sir Bob Geldof KBE will address delegates at this years AFA National Adviser Conference on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282,241,6837],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-associations","category-conferences-and-events","category-soft-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}