<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dear colleagues</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">    This email is to clarify some concerns that arose during the AGM. Maybe I was not clear, for which I apologise. But the situation at present is:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><ul><li>The 2024 ASM will be delivered in an "online-first" mode</li><li>The ASA has not decided to alternate online meetings with face-to-face meetings (this has been discussed but no decision has been made)</li><li>No decision has been made concerning the format of the 2024 (or later) HWSA</li></ul></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">The Council believes that we need to see what an online-first meeting looks like before making any decisions about the format of future meetings. Any decisions about alternating meetings would be made after consulting the membership.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I hope this clarifies things.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">John L</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p style="text-align:left;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:top;font-family:Merriweather,Palatino,"Palatino Linotype","Palatino LT STD","Book Antiqua",Georgia,serif;line-height:var(--ws-base-line-height);color:hsla(var(--ws-surface-text-color),var(--ws-surface-text-medium-emphasis-opacity))"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(53,28,117)">I'</span><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)">m</span><font color="#000000"> </font><span style="color:rgb(106,168,79)">a</span><span style="color:rgb(241,194,50)">n</span><span style="color:rgb(230,145,56)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)"><span style="color:rgb(230,145,56)">L</span><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">G</span></span><span style="color:rgb(142,124,195)">B</span><span style="color:rgb(53,28,117)">T<span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)">I</span></span><span style="color:rgb(106,168,79)">Q</span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,255,0)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(241,194,50)">A</span><span style="color:rgb(230,145,56)">l</span><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">l</span><span style="color:rgb(142,124,195)">y</span></span></span></b><i style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><b>  </b>    -     Find out more at </span></i><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/T5pTCMwGxOt2VgZwMIk4MWs?domain=monash.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank"><i>monash.edu/lgbtiqa</i></a><br></p><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div dir="ltr"><div><i><br></i></div><div>Professor John Lattanzio</div><div><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36)">Immediate Past</span><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"> </span>President, Astronomical Society of Australia</div><div><br>School of Physics and Astronomy<br></div><div>Monash University Victoria 3800 AUSTRALIA<br><br></div><div>Ph:  +61 (0)3 9905-4428<br>WWW: <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/GNAeCOMKzVTNrJK7zhrvptu?domain=maths.monash.edu.au/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">users.monash.edu.au/~johnl/</a><br><div><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/LAIfCROND2uGPJLMjIQfUTu?domain=orcid.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">orcid.org/0000-0003-2952-859X</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>---------</div></div></div><p style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:top;font-family:Merriweather,Palatino,"Palatino Linotype","Palatino LT STD","Book Antiqua",Georgia,serif;line-height:var(--ws-base-line-height);color:hsla(var(--ws-surface-text-color),var(--ws-surface-text-medium-emphasis-opacity));text-align:center">"<i style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:top">When you arrive in Heaven, you’ll have to leave your dog outside the gate. That’s because Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.</i>"   <span style="color:var(--text-color-1658212901230-1658212894919);font-weight:var(--ws-heading-5-font-weight);text-align:right">Mark Twain</span></p><p style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:top;font-family:Merriweather,Palatino,"Palatino Linotype","Palatino LT STD","Book Antiqua",Georgia,serif;line-height:var(--ws-base-line-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