Investor Presentaiton
2006 - 2007
Mike Lane
Manager, Aboriginal Benefits
Trust
"I received a phone call from our President of NT Branch Council, Roger Paul,
in May 2006. Roger had stood down from the office of President of Branch
Council unexpectedly, as Accounting At The Top 2006 loomed in June. I was
Deputy President, and most content to beaver away in the engine room, rather
than be on the bridge, and now I was being measured for the mantle of
President.
With members of the Darwin Office and Branch Council, we had been working
on the program for our flagship biennial conference for several months,
considering topics, finding speakers, and tackling the logistical challenges set
by interstate speakers and attendees, not to mention our focus on the NT
membership.
ship.
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Now, instead of sharing the chairing of each of the presentations with Branch
Council colleagues at the conference, drafting questions and thanking
speakers ahead coffee breaks and lunch, of I would have to preside over the
full breadth of the conference and membership, meaning our National
President and members of National Council. This meant speeches, welcomes,
acknowledgments, other protocols, and fear of failure or, at least, a
memorable stuff-up.
What to do? Should I ask the GP to set my legs in dual splints, write me a
scrip for strong sedatives, deem me fit for light duties only in June? No. I
phoned Rita, my beloved wife then pursuing her Masters of Anthropology at
ANU in Canberra. She encouraged me wholly to consider this a blessing,
always looking through the spiritual prism.
Thus it came to pass, a Branch Council meeting shortly thereafter, and the
presidential void filled with my name. Our 2006 Accounting At The Top was so
memorable to me, opened by the then Administrator of the NT, His Honour
Ted Egan, singing "Old Darwin Town", and filled with colleagues I treasure to
this day.
BE HEARD.
BE RECOGNISED.
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