ANRCI Committee 2016

ANRCI is an Incorporated Association and has a strict set of Rules under which it is run. These Rules are based on the BRC Rules but have been amended to suit Australian situations and laws. ANRCI has very strict rules that apply to the process of State Representative elections and AGM Notices..

ANRCI is run by a Committee made up of Representatives from all States and territories except Qld and NT. WA, SA, Victoria and Tasmania have 4 State Reps each, NSW has three and the ACT one Rep. You must live in the state you nominate for with the exception of the ACT where you must be a member of an ACT Club. Elections for these State Reps occur   each year with nominations opening for these positions late in the year. If required, ANRCI Members from each State vote for their own State representatives. These State Representatives then take on various Executive Committee positions or help as moderators of the various Sub Committees we have set up.

If you are not interested in running for a State Rep position you can put in an Expression of Interest to be part of one of the ANRCI Sub Committees. When we are reforming the Sub Committees, all Expressions of Interest will be considered and you may be invited to be part of a Sub Committee.

 ANRCI also has a second tier of Management. These are the Club Representatives. These are people nominated by the Affiliated Clubs to put forward ideas and concerns and to provide a conduit between the Committee and Club Members. This is in place and is a great avenue for new ideas.

Management Commitee 2016

• President Mark Page (WA) Moderator of the Professional Standards & Practices and Breed Standards Committee
• Vice President  Martyn Conner (TAS)
• Secretary  John Porritt (VIC)PSP Committee, Judging, Youth and Breed Standards Committee
• Treasure  Debbie Pulford(TAS)JModerator Judging  Commitee,Breed Standards Committee,Youth
• Membership Registrar Nikki White (ACT)
• Stud Name Registrar Debbie Pulford (Tas) 
• Ring Register Kelly Angilly(TAS)
• Belinda Heath (NSW)  
• Caroline Grove, Heather Stead,Cathy Sharpe ,Sally Turner(SA)
• Jacqui Gleeson(WA) Show Secretary. Points
• Amanda Hines,Christina Hemphy,Sonja Kindelin(VIC)
• Ryan Page (TAS)

mp

Hi I am Mark Page. We have been involved in rabbit's for a while now, first attending a show on advice from a club member, from there we bought our first bunnies, two Rex's and slowly progressed through the showing world and got involved in the running of our local club.

Always in the background was talk of a National body and coming from other organizations where there was an overseeing body we always believed that we should have one. So as I started to talk to others and they expressed their interest and ideas, things started to take shape and with this in mind we then expanded that to all of the rabbit fancy, so that they could be involved in the running and setting up of their national body.

It is from those ideas that have been there all along over the years that you see here today, ideas that will continue to grow and develop with the input from the members well into the future.

BH

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Hi my name is Nikki White. I have been exhibiting and breeding rabbits since early 1998, starting with Netherland Dwarfs and Dwarf Lops and, at various times, Satins, Standard Rex, Mini Rex and Dutch. For the past 7 years I have been working on Chinchilla Gigantas and I have also kept British Giants since 2002. These plus Dwarf Lops are my current breeds.

I have been a member of the Canberra Rabbit Club since 1997 and have held various committee positions including President. I edited their newsletter Rabbit Droppings for about 10 years (which really means “wrote most of it”) and still am the web manager. I am also the President and Treasurer of the Southern Tablelands Rabbit Club (based in Goulburn) and have edited their newsletter, Twitching Times when the actual editor has been tied up with university assignments.

I am a firm believer in the importance of educating the public about the proper care and handling of rabbits, and making them understand they are neither just pests nor throwaway pets but worthwhile and deserving of the respect and attention given to dogs and cats. To that end I have done many displays and information sessions in the Canberra-Monaro region at agricultural shows, school fetes, and community events. I have a “patting circus” of assorted breeds , most of whom walk on leashes, who go around the shows with me.

Apart from rabbits, I breed and exhibit cavies (guinea pigs – chiefly Abyssinians, Rex and Sheba Miniyaks) and also showed cats (Abyssinians and Somalis) for a while. I am Secretary of the NSW Cavy Club, Treasurer of the Abyssinian Cat Club of Australasia and formerly the Secretary of the Australian National Cavy Council (ANCC, the cavy fancy governing body).

Because I have been involved with not only the rabbit fancy but other small animal fancies for many years, I can see that some of the problems facing the rabbit fancy are not unique. These problems include lack of volunteers to fill positions in club committees and/or to help run shows, clashing show dates, difficulties in finding halls which are large enough and which will accept animals and which don’t cost an arm and a leg to hire. I envisage that one way round this is for clubs to band together to hold shows, not all the time, of course. This widens the pool of willing helpers to draw on and reduces costs in hall hire. This is something the cat fancy has done for quite a number of years.

Another thing I’d like to see is something like the ANCC’s Judges Assistance Scheme. Under this clubs are encouraged to use newly fledged judges from interstate and the ANCC subsidies their airfare. That way new judges get experience and clubs get someone new to sort out their animals.

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My name is Debbie Pulford and I live in Tasmania. I have bred under the Prefix “Bolshi” for well over 20 years. As a child growing up I had rabbits as pets and was keen for my own children to have that same experience. In 1988 the family acquired its first very colorful x-bred bunny for my eldest daughter Sarah. 

It wasn’t long before the rabbits were mostly mine and Standard Rexes became my one true love. They soon pushed my passion for showing horses into the background, and I joined the Rabbit Breeders Association of Tasmania and began showing what I had been working on so hard in my own backyard.  I was respondable for introducing many colors not seen before in Rexes in our State along with another couple of breeders with whom I worked closely. 

I have been an active member of RBATinc for over 20 years and in that time have held various Committee positions from Editor and Show Secretary to Club Secretary. I was amongst the first of Tasmania’s home grown Qualified Judges along with the late Gloria Jenkins and Joan Eastley to mention a couple. In my capacity as a Judge have had the priviledge to officiate at Shows in W.A., S.A., Vic., and N.S.W. numerous times including Royals in all States, some even twice. I am honoured to have been given the task on the Committee, of looking into how we could implement a National Stud Register, and the Rules and Regulations we would need to make this become a reality and work successfully.

I believe wholeheartedly in the way we have functioned under the BRC Show Rules and Regulations but realize to move forward we need to be able to evolve and change things to suit today’s economic conditions and limited gene pool within Australia.  I am here to be a voice for the Fancy and to make sure that everybodies ideas are given a fair go. I look forward to hearing your ideas in overcoming the challenges we face as we move forward to become one voice, one Fancy with one fair set of Rules for all Breeders/Fanciers alike.

MC

​Hi My Name is Martyn Connor, 
My breeding and exhibiting rabbits started off about 6 years ago when my wife decided to bring home our first rabbit, I was against attending shows or getting involved. After being dragged to a few shows and meeting some amazing people I was hooked. We started off with a pet quality dwarf lop before we found a standard rex that started our main stock.
In the last few years we have also added Chinchilla and Thrianta to the rabbits we breed and exhibit.

I am a Member and President of the Rabbit Breeders Association of Tasmania. With the support of our Local judges I have started my Trainee Judging and look forward to expanding my knowledge and meeting more amazing people in the rabbit world.