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Australian Intergroup Newsletter

September 2024

Melbourne Convention

There will be 4 meeting times in 2 rooms. Attendees can choose between the options throughout the day

Room 1

4 Speaker Meetings which will include a couple, male and female speakers. There will be time for general sharing.

Room 2

4 theme meetings

• Women
• Rainbow (LGBTQIA+)
• HOW
• Surviving to thriving – Recovery from Dysfunctional Family Dynamics

Tentative schedule

The exact order of speakers and theme meetings, when finalised, will be posted to the  Melbourne Convention Webpage.

New Meetings

• St Kilda VIC Mixed Gender

Intergroup Finances

Major expenditure items by Intergroup in the past year: 

• Public Liability Insurance $1310
• Free Newcomer packs plus postage  $1250 approximately
• Fellowship World Services (FWS) contribution $4000 
• Newsletter $121
• Website and email   $569
• Post Office Box $245
• 1300 Phoneline $100 approximately
• Zoom Accounts for Meetings $460
• New Meeting seed funding $661
• Convention seed funding $1000
• Annual Business Meeting ABM/C $636

60/40 Plan

From September 2024, Intergroup contributes 40% of all new contributions, from members and groups, to Fellowship World Services (FWS) to support the vital work FWS does for the international SLAA fellowship.

Prudent Reserve

Intergroup has adopted a policy of having a prudent reserve of $5,000. This ensures that funds are available to meet our financial obligations and continue  the smooth operation of Intergroup services.

2025 Annual Business Meeting (ABM/C) will be Virtual

The Annual Business Meeting is the international policy making body of the SLAA Fellowship.

The 2024 ABM/C was held virtually after the 2023 in-person ABM/C.  

The virtual ABM/C reduced costs for Intergroups and FWS and led to increased involvement of the international fellowship: 

• highest number of Delegates ever - 63 (35 last year)
• highest number of participating Intergroups ever - 32 (21 last year) 
• most international participants ever - 21 (6 last year)  
• highest number of observers ever - 11 (3 last year)

The Australian Intergroup had 2 Delegates attending and was entitled to have 14 Delegates

Would you like to be a Delegate at the 2025 ABM/C?  Past Delegates are able to provide training/mentoring.  Contact the Australian Intergroup Chair for more information.

Meeting Rooms Around Australia - Canberra ACT

Ask your meeting's Group Conscience to submit a photo of your meeting room with information about your meeting (history, attendance etc), in under 100 words, to webmaster@slaa.org.au

Canberra Civic Topic Meeting is an in-person meeting at Canberra’s Griffin Centre in the city centre, which us locals call “Civic”.  It runs at 5pm on Saturday for 60 minutes.

The Saturday meeting briefly moved online during the first covid lockdown in 2020, and is the only remaining face-to-face meeting in Canberra, with the other Canberra meetings on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday staying online to the present day. 

Regular attendance is modest at 4-6, but we often greet newcomers and interstate visitors, and invite people to stay for fellowship at the café afterward. 

In the current format, we read a Step each week from the basic text, with a Tradition reading once a month, and we invite members to suggest topics to share on if they choose.  We recently resumed holding hands for the Serenity prayer together at the end.

More Information about the Canberra Civic Topic Meeting

Latest issue of the SLAA Journal

The Journal is the bi-monthly magazine of SLAA, our "Meeting in Print". 

The Journal brings a fresh perspective to meetings and SLAA members with relevant topics, insightful shares, stories, and poetry from members, as well as news and event announcements from Fellowship-Wide Services.

Would you like to write something for a future issue of the SLAA Journal ? How to submit your writings.  

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