AUGUST 2024 

MEETING - Friday 9th August 2024

Committee Meeting @ 11am

Light Luncheon @ 12pm All welcome

Guest Speaker @ 12.45pm 

General Meeting @ 2pm to 3.30pm

# For those members wishing to participate remotely (via ZOOM), please email to register at 

rtazoom@gmail.com 

GUEST SPEAKER

Development of the Eveleigh Locomotive Workshops

Roger Jowett

National Secretary of the Australian Rail, Tram and Bus Industry Union (1993-2005)

MONTHLY LUNCHEON - Wednesday 14th August 2024

Location - Club York @ 12pm

Contact Chrys to reserve your seat or if you have any questions.

Chrys 0427 188 126 

MONTHLY OUTING -  Tuesday 20th August 2024

Tour of the new building at the Art Gallery of NSW

WHERE - NSW Art Gallery. Art Gallery Road, The Domain

TIME - 11.30am

COST - $34 pp (paid on the day)

LUNCH - at your own expense in the cafe

 For further information contact

Max - maxprince@optusnet.com.au or 0431 473 983

Have you, or are you turning 80 in 2024? 

It is a tradition that RTA members turning 80 in the current year receive a Lions Christmas cake.

Please contact Halina on 0433 011 920 if you turn 80 in 2024 so that arrangements can be made to have a cake delivered to you at the end of the year.

 Join this month’s Retired Unionists Network meeting, which will be held remotely over Zoom on Thursday 25 July at 2:00pm (AEST).

We will be joined by guest speaker Dr Mark Diesendorf who will talk on the topic of sustainable civilisation, and his recently published book, The Path to Sustainable Civilisation.

Dr Mark Diesendorf is Honorary Associate Professor in the Environment & Society Group at UNSW Sydney.

Originally trained as a physicist, he became a Principal Research Scientist in CSIRO and then broadened out into interdisciplinary energy and sustainability research and education. From 1996 to 2001 he was Professor of Environmental Science and Founding Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures at University of Technology Sydney.

His most recent book is The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation: Technological, Socioeconomic and Political Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). He is a member of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) (retired category) and Sydney Retired Unionists Group (RUG).


 Zoom Meeting ID:

813 3458 3143

 * Please note change of venue

 NAIDOC Week

7 - 14 July 2024

Please visit www.naidoc.org.au for information, resources and events.