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2012 Membership

posted 29 Jan 2012 01:41 by Shane West

Registration for 2012 AAN Membership is now open and payments can be made securely online from the Membership page.

In 2012 we have decided to reduce the cost of membership significantly to reflect the improved financial position of the Association and our desire to reduce any barriers to becoming an active member of AAN. In addition, we've also introduced a new long distance membership for people living more than 150kms from Oslo.

Your support is vital to the continuing existance of AAN in Norway. You can also support AAN through giving your time to help arrange and hold events. Please contact us if you would like to help out. We are very much in need of people. In addition to supporting AAN you get the following benefits:

1. AAN events each month

Throughout 2012 AAN will hold monthly events where AAN members can receive discounted, priority entry when admission is charged. We'll also ensure that members have preferential pricing on anything supplied at those events.

2. Reduced prices on flights to Australia

Australiatur.no (www.australiatur.no) has very generously offered all AAN members a 10% discount on flights to Australia. Australiatur.no are specialists on tours and flights to Australia and will very happily help you out with your next trip. Where conditions allow you may also receive more flexibility to change your ticket without any additional costs. Feel free to contact Australiatur.no when shopping around for tickets, you might just be very pleasently surprised at the deal you can get. Some conditions will apply to this discount offer so check with Endre or Bent at Australiatur.no for more details. To receive this offer you will need to show your current AAN membership card.

3. Free rental of AAN equipment

AAN has recently purchased numerous pieces of equipment to help in the running and planning of our events. For most of the year this equipment is sitting in storage so we would like to offer the use of this equipment to AAN members free of charge. Renters of the items will be required to leave a small deposit (and a donation if they wish) that will be returned once the equipment is returned to AAN. Details about the equipment and conditions of rental can be found here on our website.

See you at an event soon!

New slogan!

posted 2 Nov 2011 12:42 by Shane West

The Association recently held a competition to find a unique slogan to introduce us more informally: Australian style. We had many good responses and finally voted on two lovely lines from two different entrants. So we actually have two winners! They are Natasha Weerasinghe and Craig Jasienski. Thank you both for your efforts! You'll be receiving your AAN polo and t-shirts shortly, together with a free 2012 membership.

So we now have a friendly brand new slogan to remind us of Australia and also to celebrate us being all the way up north of the globe. The Australian Association Norway's new slogan is:

Check out our new t-shirts and polos sporting the slogan and logo here.

New AAN t-shirts and polos

posted 2 Nov 2011 12:41 by Shane West [ updated 2 Nov 2011 12:41 ]

With the launch of our new slogan we have some cool, newly designed T-Shirts sporting the slogan along with a Mooseroo! A very unique illustration of a moose and a kangaroo designed by Ingun Redalen White. Some have already been spotted wearing the T on an informal work Friday in and around Oslo.

Our committee members will also be wearing a navy blue Polo with a bottle green AAN logo at our events. These are also on sale and are fantastic in quality.

Reserve your t-shirts and polos here

We have limited pieces as this is our first test print batch and we plan on ordering subsequent pieces as we receive orders.

The T-Shirts and Polos can be paid for and collected from selected events. Please check out our upcoming events on the events page of our website (www.aan.no). Or they can be viewed and purchased from Shane West in Stabekk.

Seeing how hot our first efforts go in demand, we may just be inspired to come up with more cool AAN products!

Pub night instead of quiz night

posted 14 Oct 2011 03:31 by Shane West

Unfortunately, we've been unable to find a quiz master to prepare and host the proposed quiz night next Friday evening (Oct 21st). If any of the Australian community is prepared to generate questions and host a quiz night then AAN would be very happy to arrange a venue and prizes. We are confident that we will be able to hold this event in 2012.

In place of the quiz night a few of us will be meeting at the Dubliner on Friday Oct 21st from 6pm for a few drinks.

Xmas Party help needed!

posted 11 Sep 2011 12:09 by Shane West

We had such a great response to the family BBQ (more than 125 registered) that we have decided to hold a family Xmas party on Dec 11th - so make sure you you pencil it into your diary. We need your help to make it happen! We need ideas on where we can hold this event. Keep in mind that it needs to be central to Oslo, relatively inexpensive to hire, and should be able to accommodate 100 people comfortably and still allow the kids to run around a little.

All suggestions welcome!

Updated event calendar

posted 11 Sep 2011 12:08 by Shane West

Due to a few changes in recent AAN events we've decided to update our event calendar. The quiz night that was postponed earlier this year will be held in late October and the swap meet planned for later this month is being replaced by a mushroom picking course to be held on Oct 2nd (see separate email).

Here's the new calendar:

Sat Oct 1st - AFL Grand Final

Sun Oct 2nd - Mushroom picking

Oct 20 or 21st - Quiz night

Fri Nov 25th - Wine and Cheese evening

Sun Dec 11th - Family Xmas party

Minutes from 2011 AAN AGM

posted 9 Aug 2011 11:31 by Shane West

Please find attached the minutes from the AAN AGM held in May

| Attachments: Australian Association AGM 2011 minutes.docx

Twins Attacks in Oslo

posted 24 Jul 2011 23:22 by Shane West

The Australian Association Norway offers its deepest condolences to the families, friends and communities of those who lost their lives in the twin attacks in Oslo last Friday, July 22nd. This was a senseless act of violence targeted at innocent people and which struck at the values which make Norway such a special country to live in. Our thoughts are also with the survivors of these tragedies and will stay with them during their healing process.

Know Your Rights evening replaced

posted 17 Jun 2011 05:53 by Shane West [ updated 17 Jun 2011 05:55 ]

The Know Your Rights evening planned for June 22nd has been replaced by the history of Norwegian migration to Australia presentation to be held on June 23rd. More details can be found here.

AAN 2010 Annual Report

posted 30 May 2011 01:31 by Shane West

The 2010 Annual report is now available for download. Please click on the document link below.

| Attachments: AAN Annual Report 2010.pdf

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