RCC Lunchtime Meeting - 18 August 2025

Our next club meeting will be at the Commonwealth Club on Monday 18 August 2025. Dress code smart casual  -   jacket and no jeans. The cost of lunch is $65.

Our guest speaker will be Dr Rosemary Hollow - President of the National Parks Association of Canberra. 

The National Parks Association of the ACT (NPA) was formed in the 1960s to lobby for a national park in the ACT. In 2024 with ACT Parks NPA celebrated the 40^th anniversary of the gazettal of Namadgi National Park.

Sixty years on NPA is still going strong. The association has over 400 members, and over 8000 followers on social media. It conducts an active walks and works program, publishes field guides on ACT flora and fauna, supports a scholarship at ANU, leads a  significant research project on Rosenberg goanna, and undertakes advocacy for the protection of parks in the ACT and nearby areas. 

Rosemary will discuss current NPA activities, and how NPA still remains a successful active volunteer environment organisation 60 years on.

Dr Rosemary Hollow has been President of NPA for three years.  She previously worked in the Australian government Environment Department, and taught Heritage and Museum Studies at the University of Canberra. 

Please register for this meeting by no later than 10.00am on Friday 15 August 2025. Any registrtiion after this date will not be included in the number of meals we ask the Commonwelth Club to  serve

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