Objectives

National committee

National Executive

Committee communication and decision making

Email list instructions

Email list features

Compost Australia objectives

1. To establish a credible, viable and representative peak industry organisation.

2. To establish and support programs for the development of the industry.

3. To gain recognition of the industry as a key contributor to urban and rural sustainability.

4. To encourage increased professionalism across the industry.

5. To identify common industry priorities, and advocate for their implementation by government and industry.

6. To strive for the environmentally responsible recovery and management of compostable organic materials.

7. To actively support the development of agricultural markets for compost products.

8. To establish and maintain relationships with key stakeholders.

9. To support the development of relevant product standards, and encourage their adoption by both producers and users.

10. To establish communications systems for the industry to:

• Access and disseminate information for industry development;
• Enable industry consultation, and facilitate industry decision making;
• Inform and influence key stakeholders and decision makers.

11. To provide formal response and comment on issues and policies affecting the industry.

12. To identify and catalyse strategic and commercially relevant research and development.

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National Committee

The Compost Australia national committee is comprised of three full members from each of the state based Compost industry organisations. These state based organisations include:

• COMMPOST NSW
• Compost VIC
• COMMPOST SA
• Compost WA
• Organic Resources Queensland

Committee members are nominated by their respective state branch industry organisation, but must meet the requirements for full membership - which requires that your organisation currently operate a commercial organics processing facility that complies with all relevant state and local regulatory and licensing requirements.

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Compost Australia National Executive

The national executive currently comprises of 4 committee members, representing the Chairperson, Deputy chair, Secretary, and Treasurer. The executive in 2004 are:

• Chairperson: Mr Peter Wadewitz
• Deputy Chairperson and chair of communications and product marketing sub-committees: Mr Rob Niccol
• Treasurer and chair of finance sub-committee: Mr Tony Emery
• Secretary: Mr Steve Marshall

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Committee communication and decision making

Committee members have their email address registered on a secure email list server, and can communicate efficiently by sending emails to:
ecoliving-compost@lists.cat.org.au. ONLY registered committee members can post to this list. All registered committee members on the list receive postings.

This email discussion list provides a forum for Compost Australia committee members to discuss and resolve issues, and to make timely decisions. This email list and associated internet archive are accessible only via password to Compost Australia committee members. You will receive a monthly email reminder of your password.

NOTE: postings (emails) to the list can only be sent and received from your registered email address – which probably means emails posted to the list will need to be sent by you, or from your computer.

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Email list instructions

Below is a copy of the welcome email you will receive upon joining the list - not including the password.

Welcome to the ecoliving-compost@lists.cat.org.au mailing list!

This ecoliving-compost email list and associated internet archive are for the Compost Australia committee email group.

Please read this email carefully, it explains how the list and internet archive work, and provides you with your automated password for access to the list (this password is identified near the bottom of this email below).

It is strongly advised that you keep this email so that you can refer back to it for instructions if needed.

You will receive an automated monthly reminder of your password via email.

This email list and associated internet archive are accessible only via password to elected Compost Australia committee members.

This email discussion list provides a forum for Compost Australia committee members to discuss and resolve issues, and to make timely decisions. An additional discussion group has been established for communication between Compost Australia members and associate members.

To send a message to the Compost Australia executive committee email group discussion group, address your e-mail to:
ecoliving-compost@lists.cat.org.au.

Questions may be asked and answered by anybody who is subscribed to the group list, any message sent to the list will be received by all list members.

When you wish to access the internet archive, you should think of it as a filing cabinet. Messages are automatically filed under the subject line under which the original email is sent.

When using the list, please use the same subject line in the email whilst continuing to discuss a particular issue. This way it will be archived on the internet under that subject heading.

Similarly, if you want to start a new topic of discussion, please use a NEW subject line for the email, otherwise you will have trouble finding it on the archive in the future.

Please notify of any problems or to direct enquiries regarding this discussion group to the list manager at the UNSW Ecoliving Centre on cameron.little@unsw.edu.au

The list manager requires a single representative of Compost Australia to be specified as the authority to add (register) and remove (de-register) people from the list. Email addresses will NOT be added or removed from the list without such authorisation. Such requests can also be made from the Compost Australia committee for actioning via a.campbell@unsw.edu.au.

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Email list features

• It is a closed list (in the sense that Compost Australia committee members must be subscribed to the list by a list manager)
• Once subscribed, members are able to post freely without moderator approval (ie. member postings are not screened)
• This ensures no one but subscribed members can post messages - so no spam, no advertisements and no eavesdropping
• Messages emailed to the list address by members are automatically distributed to all list members
• Provides an archive of correspondence that is accessible on internet
• Provides a list management service, whereby a list manager manually adds and/or removes members email addresses in response to direct email requests from a specified Compost Australia executive (ie. when a new member joins, or a current member fails to renew membership, the CA secretary (for example) will email the list manager with name and email address of the member, and request it to be added/removed from the list. The list manager will implement this request directly). This ensures we have one list only, and that all committee members receive the same information.
• Provides members with a user name and password without new members needing to do anything, all that needs to happen is a list of names and associated email contact for new member be emailed to the moderator by the CA executive
• Sends new members an introductory email that provides very simple and clear instructions for using the list, accessing the Internet archive, and provides them with a password.
• Sends automated monthly reminders to list members of their password
• Allows distribution of attachments of up to 1 MB. Larger attachments will not be transmitted.

To post to this list, send your email to: ecoliving-compost@lists.cat.org.au

General information about the mailing list, and access to the internet archive is at: http://lists.cat.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ecoliving-compost , you will need your password to access this.

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