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Published by Bicycle New South Wales ABN 26 511 801 801 1st Floor, Heritage Building A, 1 Herb Elliott Avenue, Sydney Olympic Park, Homebush Bay, NSW, 2127 Phone (02) 9704 0800 Fax (02) 9746 2600 Email www.bicyclensw.org.au/contact Website www.bicyclensw.org.au


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BICYCLE NEW SOUTH WALES STAFF


Chief Executive Officer: Omar Khalifa Chief Operating Officer: Elizabeth Hole Assistant Accountant: Brian Fong Government Liaison & Advocacy Officer: Tom Tansey Head of Behaviour Change: James Adams Coordinator Behaviour Change: Elizabeth Roberts Event Manager – Traffic Management: Natelle Palfrey Event Manager – PR & Marketing: Nicole Whelan Event Coordinator: Lisa Kerr Operations Manager: Tony Henderson Member Customer Service: Mark Pullen


BICYCLE NSW OFFICE VOLUNTEERS Advocacy:Werner Steyer Admin: Richelle Pratap, Lucy Warren, Elizabeth Muscaino, Hebe Strong, Thomas Cockerton


BOARD Jenny Burn (President), Richard Birdsey (Vice President), John Cooper, Anthony Drury, Christina Harlamb, Jon Leighton, David McGrath, John Richardson.


OFFICE BEARERS AND BOARD COMMITTEES Bicycle NSW Audit and Risk Committee: Jenny Burn, John Cooper (Convenor), Anthony Drury Bicycle NSW Public Officer: Elizabeth Hole Bicycle NSW Environmental Trust: Greg Krix, Geoff Martin, Hilary Wise Chair of BUGs Council: Graeme Edwards


Bicycle NSW is the peak community cycling organisation in NSW established in 1976 and has a mission to promote, advocate, and support cycling in all its forms as an environmentally sustainable and healthy form of transport, recreation and tourism through the engagement of government, industry and the community at all levels. Bicycle NSW is bound by the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). To find out why we collect your personal information, how we disclose it and how you can access it, please log on to www.bicyclensw.org.au/privacy


“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down


them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” ~Ernest Hemingway


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Getting to know Omar STAFF AT BICYCLE NSW were pleased to welcome newly appointed CEO


Omar Khalifa to our lovely offices at Homebush Bay during July. PushOn asked Omar if he would like to take the opportunity to pen a few words and say “hello” to our many members and friends.


“Firstly, it is an absolute honour to have been selected as the new CEO of


Bicycle NSW at this particularly interesting time for cycling and cyclists. Certainly, the transport, health, recreational and sustainability benefits of cycling have never been more clearly in focus. As new plans are discussed and developed there is an increased need on organisations like ours to ensure they are both properly prioritised and effective in delivering meaningful results.


My goal is for Bicycle NSW to be regarded as the best cycling membership and


advocacy organization in Australia and among the top internationally. I would like NSW to be regarded as a terrific place to bicycle – however, I am under no illusion - we have a lot of hard work to do!


My three main goals are to increase the relevancy of the organization to more


members, BUGs and the greater cycling fraternity; to grow and leverage the capacity of the organization to deliver more tangible benefits to more cyclists and indeed to the community; and to prioritise safety and responsible cycling as cyclists begin to share more of the roads and paths. However, it is only by working with and growing our base of loyal BUGs that we will be able to leverage our modest resources and deliver the positive benefits Bicycle NSW can and should offer.


across NSW to better understand the needs and opportunities for us to work together at the local and state levels.


I’ll bring my bicycle.”


One of my first objectives will be to get out and visit with BUGs and members If you are interested in hosting such a get


together, please contact our BUGs Council Chair Graeme Edwards (president@ bikenorth.org.au).


Omar Khalifa CEO, Bicycle NSW


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