The society has also organised two workshops and prepared a paper to accompany the new Years 7-10 syllabus and continues to meet with main decisionmakers, including the Minister for Education. Three workshops to help teachers develop effective fieldwork programmes were held. The two winners each from the 1998 and 1999 competitions will represent Australia in the International Geography Olympiad in Toronto in August. The society's report was tabled by Iain Hay. The monograph programme continues, with completion of one on flooding and dryland salinisation in the southeast, and the series on Lake Eyre South still being progressed.
Members review the current programme of actions being undertaken.
Recognising the limited resources at its disposal, the committee agreed that it needed to focus its activities on those matters outlined in the Academy's terms of reference for National Committees and that more effort needs to be directed towards informing the geography community of the role of the committee. There being no other business, the meeting was closed at 3.40 pm.