CJU would like to thank outgoing committee members and welcome newly elected ones. 

Thank you Luke, Georgia, Galen and Madu for your work shaping and guiding CJU in its formative years. Thank you Bella, who resigned several months ago too for your leadership in the movement and in CJU.

Welcome new committee! Secretary Simone, Treasurer Kate, and general committee members, Mace, Luke, Pheonix(Ro), Sarah and Trish. We look forward to your leadership and skills as CJU continues to grow and mature as an effective organisation

Finally, we would like to share outgoing Secretary Luke's letter shared at the AGM and 4 year anniversary celebration:

Kaya folks

Thank you for being here and my apologies for missing today's AGM - the first CJU AGM I will have not attended. I want to start by saying I am incredibly proud of what we have achieved together over the past 5 years - 4 years of growing our Union together plus a year worth of working up our goals, values, priorities and establishing the organisation from scratch.

It has been a great privilege and perhaps the greatest responsibility of my life so far, helping this Union grow from non-existent to a significant player in pursuing, designing and implementing the transition to a fair, just and sustainable future here in WA.

Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond my control ( in particular managing the deep grief associated with the death of my best friend in the world ) - I am unable to continue providing leadership at this moment in time. As such I have taken the difficult, but appropriate, decision not to re-nominate for the role of Secretary or for a position on our Committee of Management this year. This is the right thing for me to do, and is an opportunity for new leadership within CJU to step forward and strengthen our Union.

I couldn't be more proud of what we've managed to achieve together so far, although it's also very clear that our collective work in this space has really only just begun. In a generations-long battle like that which we face with climate change, stepping down successfully and building distributed leadership is equally as important as stepping up in the first place.

I want to thank everyone for your support at this time, and I especially want to thank those who have put their hand up and nominated for a position on our Committee of Management going forward. I am proud of the depth of leadership we are building together here, and I whole heartedly endorse each of the nominations we have received for the Committee this year.

And in closing, I just want to reinforce that while I am stepping down, this does not mean I am stepping away from CJU altogether. I will continue to be a member, and will still be around and working together with and supporting you all where and when I can.

I just need to prioritise looking after myself for a while.

Thank you everyone, it's been an honour and privilege to serve as your Secretary.

Solidarity.

Luke