Reaction

The Webmaster did not expect any reaction to two of the three new web pages. One was a factual summary of the club's legal obligations as an incorporated association, and another was a factual summary of the duties of the President as shown in the club's constitution and job descriptions.

He considered the "Term of the President" page to be a bit more controversial as it recorded the untruths uttered by the Vice President - now forever enshrined in the club's minutes - and the actions of the President and Vice President in championing a return to limited Presidential terms - an outdated concept tolerated for years before good people produced a much better system, but everything mentioned in the "Term of the President" was true - so why would people complain?

A few days after the website was updated, newly elected President John Kubale arranged a meeting with the Webmaster at his home. When pushed to provide a reason for the meeting, John explained that "the meeting is to address some of your complaints while considering others."

John also arranged for John Souter (the SBW Liaison Officer) and Kynie Evison (the SBW Vice President) to attend. The Webmaster believed that the meeting would be a discussion about the many bad decisions that the Shoalhaven Bushwalkers committee had recently made. These bad decisions were detailed in an email he sent to John, which can be found here - Decisions.

As it turned out, the meeting would prove to be yet another violation of the SBW constitution. None of the Webmaster's complaints were dealt with at the meeting. Instead, John Kubale produced copies of two complaints that had been made about the three new web pages - one by Lyndal and Graeme Lawless, and another by David Campbell. Those complaints can be seen by following these links - the Lyndal and Graeme Lawless complaint and the David Campbell complaint

In an email to a former club member in 2025 when describing the two complaints, Brett wrote "while I did not agree with all the points made in the Lyndal and Graeme Lawless complaint, I did not have any major problems with it. It's their right to complain and they went about it in the right way. It was then up to the committee to action their complaint."

The David Campbell complaint, however, not only responded to the new web pages, but also included objections to the Webmaster's safety procedures emails which had been sent over three months earlier! Those emails can be viewed at - Proposed New Safety Procedures emails.

David's complaint accuses the Webmaster of "disrespectful and hurtful personal attacks" but gives no examples to back up his claim - because there are none. The emails he objects to were sent to the committee and not to David. Nobody on the committee, including Julienne McKay - the supposed victim of the attacks - complained about those emails at the time, or in the three (plus) months since they had been sent. David also admits that he didn't read all of them, and he relied on his partner telling him the truth about their contents.

The Webmaster could justifiably accuse David Campbell of ""disrespectful and hurtful personal attacks" - and unlike David, the Webmaster could actually provide the evidence as David's complaint is riddled with proof!

That meeting was the beginning of the end for the Webmaster's twenty five years on the SBW committee

For the next installment in this story - click on RESIGNATON.

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