{"id":8270,"date":"2010-10-26T15:50:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T04:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=8270"},"modified":"2020-02-06T08:12:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T21:12:22","slug":"new-president-as-afa-board-renews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2010\/10\/26\/new-president-as-afa-board-renews\/","title":{"rendered":"New President as AFA Board Renews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AFA Board has announced Victorian adviser <strong>Brad Fox<\/strong> as its\u00a0National President for the next two years.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In a sign of\u00a0 generational change Mr Fox, who won the AFA Rising Star Award in 2008, replaces outgoing President and long-time industry stalwart, <strong>Dr Jim Taggart OAM<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately\u00a0half of the\u00a0Board has changed over, following the Association&#8217;s Annual General Meeting, with &#8216;new blood&#8217; joining the Boards&#8217; ranks.<\/p>\n<p>New to the AFA Board are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Adam Smith<\/strong> &#8211; WA\u00a0(2008 AFA Adviser of the Year joint winner, elected as incoming National Vice President)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kenn Williams<\/strong> &#8211; WA<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Sutherland<\/strong> &#8211; SA\/NT<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Nowak<\/strong> &#8211; Qld<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The new Board members will join existing members:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dennis Bateman<\/strong> &#8211; Qld (National Treasurer)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Esther Althaus<\/strong> &#8211; Vic<\/li>\n<li><strong>Marc Bineham<\/strong> &#8211; NSW\/ACT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addressing members following his appointment, Mr Fox congratulated the work of DrTaggart and the previous Board and spoke of\u00a0charting a passage with the new Board for the AFA and its members through the sometimes difficult waters ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AFA Board has announced Victorian adviser Brad Fox as its\u00a0National President for the next two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,282,241,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-appointments","category-associations","category-conferences-and-events","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8270","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=8270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}