Weekly Newsletter #6 2012

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James Meager

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Young Nationals Southern Region Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:41 PMBcc: [email protected]

Waitaki Members Event, Marmite Drive, and More Like Follow

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Upcoming Events

What's Been

Happening

Membership

IN OTHER NEWS

Executive Meeting

The next Executive m eeting

is scheduled for theWednesday 18 April at 7pm.

We'll continue to keep you

updated through the

newsletter and on Facebook.

Mainland Conference

Registration for the National

Party Mainland Conference is

being held from 27-29 April.

Upcoming Events

Waitaki Members Event

Our first Members Event in the

Waitaki Electorate, held with the

support of Waitaki MP Jacqui

Dean and her electoratecommittee, will be in Oamaru on

April 20. We're able to provide

transport there and back, as well

as accommodation for those

wishing to spend a few more

hours admiring the Oamaru

Whitestone in the early hours of the morning. If you're in Oamaru and

wish to attend, or if you're wanting to travel north, please contact Todd

Dickens or Jacqui Dean to register your interest. We hope to have

access to the rugby as well so nobody misses out on watching the

mighty Highlanders taking on the Blues in Dunedin.

National Party Mainland Conference Registration

Thanks to funding from our

electorates we're able to offer a

further discount on the

registration costs for all

Young Nationals Southern

Region delegates to theMainland Conference on 27-

28 April. Any YNSR Member

who opts to register for the conference as a YNSR delegate will be


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If you have registered and

are a Member of the YNSR,

we'd like you to be a delegate,

and we'll subsidise your

registration costs. Register

through

your MyNationallogin.

KEEP IN TOUCH

Facebook

You can keep up to date with

all the latest news,

discussions, opinions and

updates on our Young

Nationals S outhern

Region Facebook Page.

Twitter

We're also on Twitter, you

can follow us

at @sryoungnats.

Upgrade Membership

Upgrading to full

Membership status is easy.

Just head over

to youngnats.org.nz/join/ and

take 30 seconds to fill out the

forms and you'll gain fullaccess to the rights and

privileges of Party

Membership.

entitled to a $25 reimbursement off the costs of registration, meaning

the conference costs YNSR delegates only $40 (down from $95 for other

Party Members). Register through yourMyNational login, and be sure

to get in quick as there is a late registration fee of $30 after Friday 20

April. The YNSR is allocated 18 delegates to the Conference, and we're

aiming to fill our quota. If you intend on registering please email

me so that I can ensure that you're looked after.

Brighter Connections: YNSR Pub Quiz Team

The new YNSR Pub Quiz team,

on the back their winning

performance last night (winners

with a clear 7 points between

first and second), will now be in

action every Monday night.Registration is from 7pm and

seating is limited so get in quick.

Check out the Event Page for

more information, and join us next Monday to spend the $50 bar tab in

winnings!

What's Been Happening

The Great Southern Marmite Drive

This afternoon we were proud to formally donate the Dunedin proceeds

from The Great Southern Marmite Drive to the Dunedin Combined

Foodbanks c/o Presbyterian Support Otago. The team at PS Otago took

us through the foodbank where the cupboard was shockingly bare. It

isn't until you see it with your own eyes that you fully understand the


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very real need for private charity and community support.

Our thanks goes out to the team at PS Otago for what they do for the

community, and we look forward to working with them again this year.

If you'd like to find out more, head over to the PS Otago Facebook

Page, or follow them on Twitter. We'd encourage everybody to

consider grabbing an extra can of something the next time you're at the

supermarket, and dropping it into the nearest available foodbank bin.

Brighter Voices: Policy Forum

We recently held our first of

two Policy Forums where

Members were invited to come

along and discuss the

potential policies that the

YNSR would put forward tothe New Zealand Young

Nationals Conference. After

good discussion amongst

those present, the following five policy priorities were chosen by

Members: (1) equal rights under the law for same sex couples; (2) drug

law reform; (3) introducing civics education into the secondary school

curriculum; (4) re-prioritising support for mental health care; and (5)

death with dignity (euthanasia) reform.

Now we move onto developing these policies further and then

presenting them to the NZYN Conference for adoption. If you'd like

more information please get in touch with John.

Virtual Tipping Updates

The NRL results for Week Five are in, and "Steve" is back in the lead

with a solid 5/8 for the round. You can stilljoin our league, invite

code is 169043.


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In the Super Rugby, we're storming up the leaderboard, and now only

3 points separates us and current leader John Brinsley-Pirie. We

managed the top score this week, along with Scott Miller and Tim

Shiels. A few zeroes this round, so don't forget to get your tips in on

time!

Membership

As always, I encourage anybody who

hasn't already done so, to sign up

with the Party

atyoungnats.org.nz/join/ as

either a Member or a Supporter so

that we can ensure you're entered into

our system. As we move towards the

real decision making forums in the

year, it's a good opportunity to have

serious input into the workings of

government. Check out

our Facebook Page for more regular discussions, and add me on

Facebookif you'd like access to our Members & Supporters only group

on Facebook where we discuss further internal Party matters.

On a personal note this week, I start my new full-time job at the

University of Otago on April 23, so we're going to do a bit of

rebalancing with the external communications from YNSR, but my

hopes are that I can still maintain the weekly newsletter for you all.

For those students on holiday next week, do enjoy yourself, and come

back refreshed and ready for the Mainland Conference. For everybody

else, have a great week at work!

Cheers,

James Rawiri Meager

Chair


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