1978, Melbourne, Victoria

The national competition returns to Melbourne, to be held on the same weekend as the BCA Annual Show.  This show was to see Western Australia competing for the first time.  An unofficial meeting was held in a motel and the first talk of forming a national council was raised. The national show was held on Sunday the 19th February.

Results were:-

• Victoria                          151
• New South Wales          98
• South Australia              88
• Western Australia          49

A dinner was held on the Saturday evening at a local Golf Club and it was reported in the Sydney Fancies magazine.  That this dinner was responsible for cementing the ideals of a national Championship with social occasions as well as a bird show.

Ron Hunt, 1978
ANBC Historian