1991, Whitlam Centre, NSW

The year is 1991, and New South Wales hosts the championship show and again difficulties were experienced in trying to obtain a venue to cover all the activities.  An excellent venue was chosen for the show at the “Whitlam Centre”, a sporting complex in Sydney’s South West.  Once again, a bus was required to take visitors from their accommodation to the various functions, all the venues were near, and this kept the bus trips down to a short duration.

The council decided that at future Championships the council meeting should be held on the Monday after the show,

  1. To enable the delegates to deal with any business arising from Sundays show and therefore avoiding the necessity of holding a special meeting as per 1990.
  2. This would enable the delegates to deal with all business without the concern of other activities overlapping.

A decision to include a variable class in 1992 to be trialed over a seven-year period was agreed to, and the 1992 class would be for dark green or olive with a postal vote deciding the other classes.

Clarification of candidates eligible to sit the National judges exam was that the candidate was to be nominated by their member body and to be of senior standing in their area.  Not necessarily senior panel or senior in age!

The show cage issue was resolved and future cages can be made from timber products e.g. Custom Wood, Craft Wood and of course Timber.

From and including 1992 all judges adjudicating at ANBC championship shows must have sat for and passed the ANBC exam.  Future exams are to be held on the Saturday before the championship show.  This is to allow the candidates the rest of the weekend free of concern over the exam.

Final Results were:

  • 1st Victoria                                          323
  • 2nd South Queensland                         288
  • 3rd N.S.W.                                           255
  • 4th Tasmania                                        220
  • 5th North Central Queensland             200
  • 6th South Australia                              150
  • 7th Western Australia                          139

Officiating Judges were

  • Burnie O’Connel, Victoria,
  • George Duffield, South Australia,
  • Kevin Kelly and
  • Ron Hunt N.S.W.

*Show was completed in record time due to efficient stewarding reducing the down time between classes

Ron Hunt, 1991
ANBC Historian