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From The Executive Officer’s Desk:

The last 6 months has been quite a busy time in the TRA Ltd “office”.

The most pressing items apart from the usual items requiring attention are;

COVID-19 Impact

The COVID-19 situation has had a severe impact on the organisation particularly in forcing the cancellation of the
2020 TRA National Championships and TRA Ltd Interstate Postal Competitions for the year.
A second major impact is the necessity to change the format of the 2020 Annual General Meeting to an electronic
format via a teleconference / web conference. We are still determining the most appropriate option and format to
use for the AGM and will keep the member organisations delegates informed as developments occur.

With the current restrictions in place TRA has also recommended that all member organisations and affiliated clubs
should cease to deliver any type of shooting activity or social activity within their venue. This should be applied at
all indoor and outdoor ranges.

It is further recommended that the cessation of activity at ranges should be applied until government directives
are relaxed.

COVID-19 Reference Group:
The Australian Shooting Covid-19 Reference Group has been formed to create a platform for discussion and shar-
ing of information regarding the Covid – 19 Virus and it’s impacts on the activities and interests of Shooting Aus-
tralia, member organisations and their respective State Associations and Affiliated Clubs.

The Reference Group comprises representatives from Shooting Australia, the Executive officers of all Shooting Aus-
tralia Member Organisations and has been established to provide the respective organisations involved with a fo-
rum for open discussion, sharing of information and resources and a reference for decision making. The group op-
erates via a weekly Tele-Conference.

Expressions of Interest for TRA National Championship Events:

With the board’s decision in January to change the procedure for allocating National Championship Events, expres-
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sions of interest have been sent out for the 2022 and 2023 TRA National Championships (due 14 May) as well as
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the 2021 TRA Rimfire and Airgun Bench Rest Nationals (due 31 March).
Other activities in the last few months can be found in the summaries of directors meetings for January 2020 and
March 2020 which have been included elsewhere in the newsletter.

I take this opportunity to wish everyone all the best over the unprecedented times we are currently experiencing
in Australia and express my fervent hope that we can all return to “normal life” as soon as practically possible.

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Richard Toye
Executive Officer

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