AJS-NSW AGM 2025 Plus guest speaker and networking

Annual General Meeting 2025

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Annual General Meeting of Members of the Australia Japan Society of NSW Incorporated will be held on Monday 1 December 2025 at 6.00pm, at The Japan Foundation, Sydney.

The meeting will be followed by a talk by our guest speaker Ray Nickson, about the forgotten history of the Nippon Baseball Club, and networking over refreshments.

There is no cost for members to attend the AGM but to assist with catering please register. Non-members who wish to attend the talk and networking may register with a small fee payable and expect to attend from 6:30PM.

Please note that to attend the AGM and to nominate for a Board position you must be a current financial member of the Society.

AGM papers and nomination forms are available from the links here:

• Notice of meeting
• Agenda
• Minutes of AGM held 2 December 2024
• 2024-25 Financial report
• Attendance/Proxy form
• Nomination form
• Combined Notice/Agenda/Forms

Guest speaker talk:

Dr. Ray Nickson on the forgotten history of the Nippon Baseball Club

The Nippon Baseball Club was formed in Sydney in 1917; their games were watched by large crowds, where they would contribute to fundraising for the war effort. The Club also donated a silver cup that was awarded to the winner of the District competition for decades after. Despite widespread media coverage at the time, their role has been almost entirely forgotten in Australian sports history. This talk seeks to redress that omission.

Dr. Nickson is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle School of Law and Justice. He is speaking to us as a sports historian, a role in which he fuses his love of sports with research as the leading expert on baseball’s history in Australia. A current project examines the role of migrants from Asia in advancing baseball during the early years of the White Australia policy.

We look forward to seeing you at the AGM.

Anita Byrnes, President