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Hi Everyone

Welcome to the new financial year.  I am not sure where the last financial year went or for that matter the first half of 2016.

Following my recent communique to you on my activities in May, I have had another interesting month of activities in June.  A key activity was the NGIA Board meeting where the Directors worked through the following items of business:

• NGI Structure Review – the review committee was in attendance and they are making excellent progress with their information and data gathering activities
• NGIA Strategy 2016-2020 – endorsed for implementation
• Nursery Production Farm Management System (including NISA, EcoHort and BioSecure HACCP) – progress on the transition of the administration and management of the programs to NGIA
• Nursery and Garden Awards – will not be held on a national basis in 2016 but will be reviewed.
• Horticulture Innovation Australia R&D and Marketing programs – including a presentation by Graeme Yardy who is the Marketing Lead at HIA and has oversight of the 202020 Vision Program

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Hi Everyone

I had a very interesting and varied month of activities in May. The following details the breadth and type of work I undertake on behalf of members:

• Attendance at Nursery Industry Strategic Investment Advisory Panel (SIAP) meeting. I was there representing NGIA as a service provider (Biosecurity and Communications programs) to industry and due to my involvement on the “work in progress” meetings for the 20V Program.
• Participation in the fortnightly meetings between NGIA and Cox Inall Communications to deliver the nursery industry communications program.
• Chairing the NGIA office staff meeting. This occurs every month to ensure activities are being progressed and all staff aware of work being conducted.
• Meeting with the Business Development Manager at IBIS World to determine how IBIS can assist in gaining accurate industry data to better represent members nationally.
• Participated in the quarterly Project Steering Committee for Project NY 15004 – Building the resilience and on-farm biosecurity capacity of the Australian production nursery industry. The project is being conducted by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries in Queensland and is an important contributing project to the Nursery Industry Biosecurity Program.
• Attended the 20V Program monthly work in progress meeting. The key projects being progressed are:

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