{"id":1812,"date":"2026-10-19T18:44:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T07:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/tasmania\/2026\/10\/19\/a-message-from-the-national-president\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T22:11:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T11:11:21","slug":"a-message-from-the-national-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/tasmania\/2026\/10\/19\/a-message-from-the-national-president\/","title":{"rendered":"A message from the National President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/national\/a-message-from-the-national-president\/#\"><br><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/national\/a-message-from-the-national-president\/#\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/national\/a-message-from-the-national-president\/#\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following his election at the Annual General Meeting on Sunday, 18 October 2026, newly elected National President David Doyle has delivered his inaugural address to the members of Pipe Bands Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his address, David outlines his vision for the Association, including strengthening member engagement, supporting education and development, recognising the contribution of community and competition bands, and building a more connected national pipe band community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Members are invited to read the President\u2019s inaugural address below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-10-19-Presidential-Message.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:1161px\" aria-label=\"Embed of 2026 National Presidential Message.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-32d5ce9d-f1ff-4f0c-a4b4-f54a4670ce8d\" href=\"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-10-19-Presidential-Message.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2026 National Presidential Message<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-10-19-Presidential-Message.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-32d5ce9d-f1ff-4f0c-a4b4-f54a4670ce8d\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p>\n\n<p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following his election at the Annual General Meeting on Sunday, 18 October 2026, newly elected National President David Doyle has delivered his inaugural address to the members of Pipe Bands&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/tasmania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/tasmania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/tasmania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/tasmania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/tasmania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/tasmania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/tasmania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/tasmania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/tasmania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/tasmania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}