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Auckland Branch 2025 - Meeting dates
Here are the details we have so far for our 2025 branch meetings. We have some interesting speakers booked so please put the dates in your diary. More details will be published on the website and in the newsletter, closer to the function date. In each case the venue is the Western Springs Community Hall 2 and start time is 10.30am. There is a large car park at the venue where you can park for free. A morning tea is provided. Apart from the Christmas function these events are free to our members and their guests. We would love to see some new faces !
On Tuesday, 25 March 2025 we introduce Shanthi Ameratunga whose speech is entitled
What shifting boundaries and “in-between places” teach us about health and wellbeing
Shanthi Ameratunga was born in Sri Lanka, grew up in Porirua, qualified in medicine in Dunedin (University of Otago) and trained in paediatrics and public health medicine in Northland, Auckland, and Baltimore (Johns Hopkins University). She holds honorary professorial positions at the University of Auckland, Monash University (Melbourne) and University College London. She feels she’s now into the 4th innings of an exhilarating test match, combining her love of clinical medicine and community health at the coalface that is South Auckland.
Shanthi will discuss learnings from 30 years of research endeavours providing critical insights on how our environments – physical, social, and health systems – challenge or support our wellbeing. Findings from the ‘Inclusive Streetscapes’ project (which engaged with older people and disabled people) are a call to action to transport engineers, city planners and health professionals to work with communities to enable people of all ages and abilities to enjoy the pleasures and benefits of active travel. She will also discuss her work with paediatric trauma and the compelling need to look beyond hospital care. Shanthi is convinced a just society leaves no one behind. This requires discussions in safe environments, where dissent and debate are valued alongside shared aspirations. She looks forward to an active and engaged discussion, drawing on the wealth of lived experience you bring to this topic.
All members are also invited to these presentations
· Tuesday, 10 June 2025 (AGM) We have Tammy McLeod from Davenports Law speaking on Wills, POA’s and Trusts.
· Tuesday, 23 September 2025 Jude Dobson is speaking about her book '' The last Secret Agent "
Introducing your current Auckland Branch Committee members:
| Chairman | Sandie Gusscott | Education | ||||
| Vice Chairman | Craig Jensen | Crown Research | ||||
| Secretary/Treasurer | Andrea Beechey | |||||
| Committee: | ||||||
| Murray McElwain (80+) | Railways | |||||
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Defence | |||||
| Eric Bowater | Education | |||||
| Neil Carey | Railways | |||||
| Keith Rawlings | Defence | |||||
| Claire Couch | Education | |||||
| Max Thomson | Post Office | |||||
| Denise Greenwood | Education | |||||
| Philippa Stevens | Education | |||||
Annuity News and Auckland Branch Newsletter
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Have you heard any interesting speakers lately ?
Auckland Branch is always looking for new speakers for our meetings. As our membership is far reaching and many of our members belong to other groups who have speakers at their meetings, we ask that if you hear someone speak whom you think would be good to have at an Auckland Branch meeting, please pass their contact details on to the Branch Secretary, Andrea at auckland@gsa.org.nz or phone her on 0800 888 472.
To find out more about activities planned for members, or to suggest other activities or venues, contact:
Branch Secretary
Andrea Beechey
0800 888 472
auckland@gsa.org.nz