The Conference evaluation has been emailed previously.

Some very important issues were discussed regarding insurance and risk management (Rob Low of Marsh Insurance) and the Weapons Act (Inspector Mike Crowley WLB).

From both these speakers the messages were loud and clear:

1. Take every possible step to ensure that your range facility is physically as risk free as possible.

2. Take very possible step to ensure that your members are shooting the events according to the rules of those events, as issued by the controlling body of those events.

3. For a participation to be legally recorded the event/match must be shot in its entirety, at the correct distance, at the correct targets.

4. Ensure that your members have the required accreditation (eg holster) suited to the specific event.

PISTOL SHOOTING QLD NEWSLETTER

December 2010 pdf

QAPSA House, Belmont Shooting Complex, 1485 Old Cleveland Road, Belmont Qld 4153

Post: PO Box 306, Carina Qld 4152 Email: qapsa@in.com.au

Phone: 07 3395 1322 Fax: 07 3395 1344

Pistol Shooting Qld Website On Line www.pistolshootingqld.org

CLUB VISITS 2010

Our Club Visit Program for 2010 saw 34 clubs visited by Pistol Shooting Queensland Board members or administration.

Clubs which participated are shown below, in their zones, with the number of members present also noted.

Clubs to be visited in 2011 are shown under each table, as they were not met with in 2010.

Letters will be sent to these clubs early in 2011 to invite them to take part, and find a suitable date.

Northern Zone:

Club Date Members Club Date Members

Bowen PC 24 July 6 Burdekin PC 24 July 3

Cairns TSC 25 September 15 Cairns ICSC 25 September 2

Charters Towers PC 25 July 4 CRM Gunsports 25 September 1

Dimbulah PC 25 September 6 Far NQ 25 September 7

Mt Isa PC 22 August 7 Richmond PC 21 August 11

Townsville PC 25 July 2 Winton SA 20 August 3

Innisfail and Straits PC will be part of our 2011 program.

South West Zone

Club Date Members Club Date Members

Blackall PC 03 October

July

7 Charleville PC 02 October 1

Cunnamulla 9 October 2 South Burnett PC 05 June 5

St George PC 9 October 2

Dalby, Millmerran and Tarawera to be visited in 2011, with Cunnamulla & St George a possibility to actually visit the clubs.

South East Zone

Enclosures: Not all enclosures included for all clubs ‐ some previously emailed.

􀂃 AGM Minutes

􀂃 Conference evaluation

􀂃 Marsh Insurance: Conference handout

􀂃 Qld Govt Dept Communities: Conference handout

􀂃 Club Contacts list as @ 9 December 2010

􀂃 Certificates from ASIC & Qld Office of Fair

Trading: change of name confirmation

􀂃 AGM papers (for those clubs not at the AGM)

This is our Association�s new logo, with our new name: Pistol Shooting Queensland Ltd (ACN 010

284 563) registered with ASIC and Pistol Shooting Queensland (BN21834192) registered with the

Queensland Office of Fair Trading.

Club Date Members Club Date Members

Beaudesert PC 06 October 16 Ipswich PC 05 June 7

Metropolitan PC 18 October 7 Murrumba PC 03 November 10

Sunshine Coast SC 27 October 7 Toowoomba PC 30 May 6

Brisbane TSC; City of Brisbane PC; Gold Coast PAA PC; Gympie PC; North Arm PC; QP PC; Toogoolawah PC and Warwick PC to be approached in 2011.

Central Zone

Club Date Members Club Date Members

Blackwater PC 24 April

24 July

3

Bundaberg PC 16 October 9

Callide Dawson PC 25 July

5 December

2

8

Emerald PC 24 July 3

Fraser Coast PC 19 June 12 Gladstone District PC 16 October 10

Isis SBRC 17 October 9 Mackay PC 04 September 2

Maryborough SBRC 17 October 5 Moranbah PC 05 September 5

Rockhampton PC 25 July 4

Mackay UIT to be approached in 2011, as no one was available to attend a meeting on 04 September.

These meetings are to be �Open Forum� type meetings, with all members very welcome, and we will also revisit some clubs again in 2011.

� 50 000 SHOTS WEEK:

50 000 Shots Week ran from 18 September to 25 September 2010:

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING CLUBS, AND A HUGE THANK YOU TO ALL THE CLUBS

WHICH PARTICIPATED.

Most shots fired: City of Brisbane PC 15 430 (Thank you to the River City Open IPSC shooters who helped boost the numbers!)

Greatest number of Participants: City of Brisbane PC: 65

Most money raised: Cairns Inner Circle Shooting Club: $557.00 !!

Total funds raised: $906.00

Total number of participants: 178

Shots fired: 27 626

50 000 SHOTS WEEK IN 2011 WILL BE FROM 17 SEPTEMBER � 24 SEPTEMBER.

We have a long way to go to register 50 000 shots!!

� Our 2010 CONFERENCE will be held on November 19‐20

MAKE THIS A DATE CLAIMER NOW! Two delegates from every club (Full or Partial Member Club) will be funded to attend: travel, meals and accommodation (staying at the QRA).

� MEDIA COVERAGE FOR QAPSA EVENTS:

QAPSA Management has funded media coverage for 10 events this year: 5 Open Shoots and 5 State Championships.

Coverage has been very widespread, with good space received in the Qld Country Life, regional papers relevant to the shooters featured, and the Courier Mail.

Our Media Watch file is growing, with some clubs sending in the �spin off� articles which appeared in their local papers � thank you to the clubs that have done this, as it helps the association assess the value we get for this investment.

The Media Watch file was on display at the Conference.

Events covered will rotate around the zones, so different areas/clubs will receive coverage each year.

� NOTICE OF INTENT AND SANCTION APPLICATION OPEN SHOOT/S 2011

Most of our usual sanctioned events have been applied for, for the 2011 year.

Thank you to those clubs that have attended to this � well done!

This allows us to get the event/s sanctioned and included in the annual calendars (Pistol Shooting Qld and Pistol Australia); to give maximum promotion via newsletters, the December 2010 QPN and the website, before the close of the office (December 17).

� GRADES

Please note new grades for 25 Yard Service Pistol: as per page 46 of the September QPN.

Operational from 01 October 2010.

� CLUB SAFE RANGE CONDUCT COURSE/PROGRAM

Our Board has recently approved a basic level club range officer course, to fit below the current Pistol Australia accreditation. Participants in this program will learn the necessary basics to run a range, at club level.

The course was put together by two of our Judges: Margaret Baker and Dale Ramm, in consultation with our Referee Council Coordinator, Joan Yet Foy and input from several clubs.

This draft was presented to Club delegates at the Conference and the final program will be posted to your club very soon, with a few final tweaks to be confirmed.

This paperwork will outline the procedure for conducting the course and registering those who have completed the course successfully, if the club wishes to use this program.

This program is free of charge to affiliated members in our registered clubs and can be conducted by qualified Range Officers in your club, or the association will send a qualified Range Officer to do the job for your club.

� COACHING ESSENTIALS COURSE

Early 2011 will see our association conducting a coach workshop, to construct a Coaching Essentials Course. Again this is a �basic� course (or program), sitting below the Australian Sports Commission�s General Principles Course and the official Club and Competition Coach levels.

This course will be for everyone, not just for those wanting to become coaches, to ensure that consistent and correct information is being circulated throughout the state.

Those members who wish to go further in coaching will find this a useful stepping stone to the other official coaching levels.

More information on this in early 2011.

There are also some exciting coaching developments with a DVD and posters, and coaching for specific events in the pipeline.

Coaching will be coming to your zone, or club, in 2011‐ so watch the club noticeboard or the Pistol Shooting Queensland website and Calendar.

Don�t forget: your club can request coaching for its members via the Coaching Request form in the club�s Sec Manual

Again, all coaching sessions are free of charge to affiliated members in our registered clubs.

� REPRESENTING AUSTRALIA

Brett Foster has again been selected in the Pistol Australia International 1920 Match Team to compete at the Bianchi Cup in the USA in 2011.

Congratulations Brett!!

� WEAPONS SAFETY COURSE TRAINING COORDINATOR

As per the advertisement in the September QPN (page 40) the position of the Weapons Safety Course Training Coordinator will be a salaried part‐time position within Pistol Shooting Qld.

Applications have closed and Pistol Shooting Queensland�s WSC Training Coordinator is Elaine Gilliver.

� CONFERENCE 2010

Thirty‐three clubs were represented at the Conference, with 31 of these clubs being present at the AGM.

The Conference evaluation has been emailed previously.

Some very important issues were discussed regarding insurance and risk management (Rob Low of Marsh Insurance) and the Weapons Act (Inspector Mike Crowley WLB).

From both these speakers the messages were loud and clear:

1. Take every possible step to ensure that your range facility is physically as risk free as possible.

2. Take very possible step to ensure that your members are shooting the events according to the rules of those events, as issued by the controlling body of those events.

3. For a participation to be legally recorded the event/match must be shot in its entirety, at the correct distance, at the correct targets.

4. Ensure that your members have the required accreditation (eg holster) suited to the specific event.

Mike Crowley also gave some insight into the new online policing system related to WLB.

Sue McLatchey from the Queensland Government�s Department of Communities gave a very detailed session on what grants are out there and how clubs can go about accessing these grants.

Australian representatives Bruce Quick (2010 Commonwealth Games), Judy Harding (Metallic Silhouette World Champs) and Brett Foster (2010 Bianchi Cup PA Team Member) all spoke about their experiences.

Our new logo was released, as per page 1 of this newsletter, with a tag line and stand alone icon as shown below.

Logos:

To clarify: The name �Pistol Shooting Queensland� had been registered with the Queensland Office

of Fair Trading prior to the AGM.

The decision to use this marketing name was approved by the Board at the August Board meeting.

If the AGM had decided not to go with a complete change, for the Company Ltd, the association could have still used the marketing name for our Queensland initiatives.

The PSQ logo will be officially available for clubs to use when we have it on our revamped website, letterheads and paperwork. Please wait for the Association�s approval before using the logos.

New Merchandise:

New merchandise was also released at the conference and will be available to clubs, to bulk purchase if they wish, at a lower price.

Aluminium drink bottles

Stubby coolers

Pens

We will advise clubs of these prices and process next week.

DVD:

The completed promotional DVD, summarising all our registered events, was presented to the Conference.

This DVD will be sent to clubs early in 2011 for their use on promotional days, or educating new members.

New promotional brochures will be available for posting to clubs early in 2011 and pull‐up banners will also be available for promo days and events.

Equipment Control Kits:

The kit for the Northern Zone was on display at the conference.

This kit contains everything in the way of Range Official equipment needed to run a sanctioned open or State Championship, and will be available to all clubs conducting a sanctioned Open.

There will be a kit prepared for each zone, with two being set up for the association.

� ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING:

The Annual General Meeting confirmed the following:

1. A name change for the Association:

With ASIC: Pistol Shooting Queensland Limited

With the Queensland Office of Fair Trading: Pistol Shooting Queensland

2. An amended and corrected Constitution was presented for adoption: this was carried.

3. Pistol Shooting Queensland Board for the 2010 ‐2011 year:

President Michele Sandstrom

Senior V �President Margaret Baker

Junior V‐President Dale Ramm

Secretary Tim Turner

Treasurer Elaine Gilliver

Director Greg Neal (SE Zone)

Director Graham Gow (SW Zone)

Director Sam Cristaudo (Northern Zone)

Director Kevin O�Sullivan (Central Zone)

The first 5 positions form the Committee of Management.

4. Fees

The standard CPI fee increase notice of motion (for the 2011‐12 year) was on the agenda, but prior to this being put to the vote the President stated that there was a Board recommendation that the CPI increase be applied to the Pistol Shooting Queensland component of the affiliation fee only.

This would work out to $1.40 for seniors and .70c for juniors.

The Board further recommended that any increase in the Pistol Australia component of the affiliation fee be absorbed by Pistol Shooting Qld for the 2011‐12 year.

This amendment was accepted and the motion carried.

5. Patron:

Kevin Rudd MP, Member for Griffiths, would once again be invited to be the association�s Patron.

6. State Championships 2011

Five nominations were received for various 2011 State Championships, and were confirmed by the meeting:

A) Service Match/WA 1500 State Championships Townsville PC 30‐31 July

B) ISSF State Championships Murrumba PC 4‐5‐6 November

C) Metallic Silhouette Toogoolawah PC 10‐11‐12‐13 June

D) Black Powder State Championships City of Brisbane PC TBC August

E) International 1920 Match No nominations received

Full Member Clubs represented at the AGM were:

Beaudesert, Blackall, Blackwater (proxy), Bowen, Bundaberg, Burdekin, Callide Dawson, City of Brisbane, Cunnamulla, Dimbulah, Emerald, Far NQ, Gladstone District, Innisfail, Isis SBRC, Maryborough SBRC, Millmerran, Moranbah, Murrumba, QP, Richmond, Rockhampton, South Burnett, Tarawera (proxy), Toogoolawah, Toowoomba, Warwick.

Partial Member clubs represented at the AGM:

Cairns TSC, Cairns ICSC, Metropolitan, Townsville.

Sincere thanks to all the clubs that were part of our Conference and AGM.

It was very pleasing to see the numbers increase again this year and we look forward to your club�s involvement in 2011.

If you read the Conference Evaluation you will see that overall the participants rate the experience as very worthwhile.

For some clubs it can be a real �eye‐opener�, and it definitely helps our association maintain better informed clubs and members who realise that they have a big responsibility to keep our sport safe, responsible and respected in the general sporting arena.

A special thanks to Lyn and Les Wright and Margaret Baker from the Gladstone District PC who helped put the AGM booklets together, helped make name tags and spent hours setting up the Northern Zone Equipment Control Kit.

It was very much appreciated.

� AISL INCLUSIVE SHOOTING TOOLKIT:

This toolkit will be provided with the revamped Secretaries� Manual in early 2011.

Available now electronically � on request.

� NEW PISTOL SHOOTING QUEENSLAND CONSTITUTION:

Will be provided with new Secretaries Manual in 2011: is available now electronically on request.

� SECRETARIES� MANUAL:

As discussed and decided at the Conference, a total revamp of the Secretaries� Manual will be done in December‐January.

With the name change of the Association many amendments will need to be made.

Pages will be numbered and a pdf file created for the Manual.

Updates will then be sent as needed, specifying which page has been updated or added.

This will also be available on the website when completed.

To start off afresh, however, each club will be given a complete hardcopy of the Manual, with updates the responsibility of the Club Secretary from then on (based on advice received from PSQ).

� COMMONWEALTH FIREARMS ADVISORY COUNCIL

Pistol Australia President, Catherine Fettell, has advised that she has been appointed as a member of the Commonwealth Firearms Advisory Council.

The Council provides an important source of advice to Government on issues affecting the operation of the Commonwealth importation regime and firearms issues of national importance.

It is reassuring and important that we, as competition target shooters, have a representative on this Council.

� AISL (Australian International Shooting Ltd) YOUTH NATIONALS 2010

Our squad of 6 juniors is in Sydney right now, competing in the AISL Youth Nationals on the Sydney International Shooting Centre (2000 Olympics) range. Squad Manager: Michele Sandstrom

Squad members are:

Maddison Cuerton (Murrumba PC); Alfio Casagrande (City of Brisbane PC); Jacob van der Merwe (Townsville PC); Sam John (Murrumba PC); Justin Woodward (City of Brisbane PC); Joel McGillivray‐ Bove (Maryborough SBRC). There has been one PB in 25m Pistol so far � update on results later.

� COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT FORM RETURN

Clubs which have not returned this form (pink) will find this in the December mailout.

We would appreciate its return asap so we have all the contacts for our clubs current to start the 2011 year.

� MEMBERSHIP AGREEMENT

Some clubs are yet to return their Membership Agreements to the office.

If your club is one of these you were sent an email on 10 December, or have had a note put in the

December mailout.

� RANGE APPROVALS

Thank you to those clubs which have sent through their renewed Range and Club Approvals.

This gives us the important information about which events our insurance policies are covering your club and members for.

If you have not updated us with your latest RA we would appreciate that asap.

� AMENDMENTS TO THE FIREARMS IMPORTATION REGIME

We have been advised by Cath Fettell, member of the Commonwealth Firearms Advisory Council, that there have been some minor amendments to the Customs Regulations, which came into effect on 19 November 2010.

The email from Cath Fettell and the CFAC was forwarded to club secretaries on 9 December.

� CLOSE OF OFFICE: CHRISTMAS � NEW YEAR PERIOD

The Pistol Shooting Queensland Office will close on Friday 17 December and reopen on Monday 10 January.

The Pistol Shooting Queensland Board thanks all our Coordinators, clubs and members

for a very positive year.

We have many new initiatives in the pipeline for 2011 and hope that our clubs and

members will take full advantage of these.

We wish you all a very safe and happy Christmas and a wonderful year in 2011.

PISTOL SHOOTING QUEENSLAND