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FFANZ Welcome to Ross's FFANZ page. For those of you who don’t know it, the Fan Fund of Australia and New Zealand was established in 1982 to encourage closer ties between fans in Australia and New Zealand. The two countries play host to trans-tasman guests on alternate years. FFANZ exists solely thorough the support of fandom and the candidates are voted for by interested fans throughout the world. Money raised from votes, donations and sales are what enable the fund to exist. FFANZ relies on the continued interest and generosity of fans to ensure its future. Edwina Harvey has been unanimously voted to be the 2012 FFANZ Delegate. This means she will be traveling from Australia to attend unCONventional. Here is some more info about Edwina: Author of YA SF novel, The Whale's Tale. (available through peggybrightbooks.com and as an e-book through Wizard's Tower Books: www.wizardstowerbooks.com) Ceramic and Silk artist. See the Celestial Cobbler site: www.celestialcobbler.com Editor and Ad Girl for Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. (www.andromedaspaceways.com) For Edwina's view on this strange planet see: edsed.livejournal.com Oh yes and she will be launching a book at unCONventional! Delegates to 2010 Worldcon in Australia. Jan butterworth and Stephen Litten made the trip to Aussiecon 4. Read the voting platforms here. Announcement of new Australian Delegate. Congratulations to David Cake, the Australian FFANZ delegate. Read more here. Barbara & Peter Clendon are the New Zealand FFANZ delegates. If you want to know more about them, you can read this. As part of making this site a proper resource for Trans-tasman fandom I plan to include some information for fans travelling to Australia and New Zealand. It is not about the places, its about the fans you can get in touch with during your travels. Here is my attempt at a New Zealand page. And thanks to Rose Mitchell here is the Australian page. So what is the future of FFANZ? One of the possibilities discussed was that maybe an ambassador programme of some sort might be the way forward. At this stage, nothing has progressed on this.
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Disclaimer and clarification - despite the similarities of the acronyms, FFANZ and SFFANZ are not affiliated in any way. |