{"id":5270,"date":"2025-06-26T15:20:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T05:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/?p=5270"},"modified":"2025-06-26T16:20:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:20:43","slug":"shooting-australia-aligns-constitution-while-scott-houston-joins-the-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/shooting-australia-aligns-constitution-while-scott-houston-joins-the-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting Australia Aligns Constitution, while Scott Houston Joins the Board"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Wednesday 25 June, Shooting Australia held a Special General Meeting to consider an amendment to its Constitution that will align it with the Australian Sports Commission\u2019s (ASC) Sport Governance Standards. Shooting Australia is required to comply to these standards by the 30<sup>th <\/sup>of June 2026 as a condition of its funding from the ASC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The key amendments to the Constitution were voted upon by Shooting Australia\u2019s Member Organisations and were approved unanimously. The key amendments included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Director Composition<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ensuring the Shooting Australia Board has a minimum of 40% appointed directors, resulting in a reduction in the number of elected directors from 5 to 4 and an increase in the number of appointed directors from 2 to 4.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This will provide for a minimum Board size of 4 and up to 8 with which aligns with the ASC\u2019s recommended optimal Board size of 7 or 8.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gender Provisions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Shooting Australia Board demonstrating a strong and public commitment to progressing towards achieving diversity, equity and inclusion goals with no one gender accounting for more than 50% of the total number of directors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/resource\/constitution\/\">SHOOTING AUSTRALIA CONSTITUTION<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to these constitutional changes, Shooting Australia is pleased to announce the appointment of Scott Houston to the Board.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1011\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Scott-Houston-002-1011x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5272\" style=\"width:256px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Scott-Houston-002-1011x1024.jpg 1011w, https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Scott-Houston-002-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Scott-Houston-002-768x778.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Scott-Houston-002-1516x1536.jpg 1516w, https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Scott-Houston-002-2022x2048.jpg 2022w, https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Scott-Houston-002-600x608.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1011px) 100vw, 1011px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Adelaide based Scott, is a former professional table tennis athlete and an experienced senior executive in the sports industry. His CV includes executive roles with the International Table Tennis Federation \u2013 Oceania, Table Tennis Australia and the South Australian Cricket Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, Scott has held Board and committee positions with Commonwealth Games Australia and the Olympic Sports Federation of Oceania, before joining as Shooting Australia\u2019s Nominations Committee as its Independent Chairperson in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of his appointment Scott said \u201cI\u2019m excited to join Shooting Australia\u2019s Board. I hope that I can bring an alternative view from the perspective of someone who has come from outside of the sport of shooting. I think it\u2019s important to have that diversity on the Board.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A call for Board nominations will take place leading into the Shooting Australia Annual General Meeting that will be held in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shooting Australia updates its Constitution and appoints a new Board Member, Scott Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5275,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270\/revisions\/5275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shootingaustralia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}