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Notice of Annual General Meeting - 2006

The Board of Directors of the .au Domain Administration (auDA), is pleased to invite you to attend its 2006 Annual General Meeting.

Date: Thursday 23 November 2006
Time: 11.00 am
Venue:   Maddocks. Angel Place, 123 Pitt Street, Sydney 2000


Purpose
The purpose of this meeting is to:

  • Report the activities of auDA
  • Ratify an increase in independent directors’ fees
  • Ratify the amount of fees payable to elected directors
  • Elect directors to board of auDA to replace those retiring by rotation

Agenda

  1. Motion to approve the auDA AGM 2005 Minutes
  2. Report from the CEO on activities and progress
  3. Acceptance of the 2005–2006 audited accounts
  4. Approval by ordinary resolution of independent directors’ fees
  5. Approval by ordinary resolution of elected directors’ fees
  6. Resignation from the board of those directors retiring by rotation
  7. Elections for new directors to the board:

    Supply Class (3 directors) - 4 nominations received
    Demand Class (2 directors) - 4 nominations received

  8. Other Business.
  9. Close of Business.

Ordinary Resolutions

Independent Directors' Fees (Agenda Item 4)
Purpose of Resolution
To ratify an increase in the amount payable to the independent directors for the next 12 months from $60,000 to $100,000

The Resolution
"To ratify the board’s resolution made at its meeting in October 2006 to increase the amount payable to the independent directors to an amount not exceeding the sum of $100,000 in aggregate per annum, such amount to be distributed amongst the said directors at the discretion of the board.''

Elected Directors’ Fees (Agenda Item 5)
Purpose of Resolution
To ratify the amount payable to elected directors of $750.00 per meeting attended (in person or by teleconference), commencing in February 2007

The Resolution
“To ratify the board’s resolution made at its meeting in October 2006 to set the amount payable to the elected directors of $750.00 per meeting attended (in person or by teleconference).”

Board Election (Agenda Item 7)
The AGM will elect 5 directors to the board, to replace 5 directors who must retire in accordance with clause 19.3 of auDA's constitution. The retiring directors are Bennett Oprysa, Peter Shilling, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Kim Heitman and Greg Watson

The directors elected will serve for a term of two years

The vacancies which will become available are:

  • three (3) directors elected only by the Supply Class members
  • two (2) directors elected only by the Demand Class members

Retiring directors may re-contest these vacancies.

 Candidate  Class  Proposed by  Seconded by 
 Marty Drill  Supply  Domain Candy P/L  2 DDNS
 Amin Kroll  Supply  NetRegistry P/L  IntaServe P/L
 Bennett Oprysa  Supply  Web City P/L  Host 1 P/L
 Peter Shilling  Supply  TPP Internet P/L  Destra Corp.
 Benny Browne  Demand      Shelston IP Lawyers     3 IIA
 Kim Heitman  Demand  1 EFA  Kimberley Heitman 
 Cheryl Langdon-Orr     Demand  Kate Lance  Craig Ng
 Brendan Lewis  Demand  Bruce Tonkin  Joshua Rowe

1 Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc
2 Discount Domain Name Services P/L
3 Internet Industry Association

Select Candidate Statements, to view the information

Voting
You cannot vote at the AGM unless you qualify to vote under clause 16.1 of auDA’s constitution and your membership fee has been paid

Proxy
For members who cannot attend the meeting but still wish to vote, a Proxy Form (PDF) with instructions is available. All qualifying members have the right to appoint a proxy and the proxy does not need to be a member of auDA

If you have any trouble accessing the proxy form, please email Jo Lim

Proxy forms must be received by 5pm AEDT, Tuesday 21 November 2006

Forms must be mailed or faxed to:

auDA Proxy
Postal Address:   107 Faraday Street, Carlton VIC 3053
Fax Number: 03 9349 5711