{"id":1702,"date":"2021-08-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging.pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/victoria\/welcome-jamie-robinson\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T00:19:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T14:19:38","slug":"welcome-jamie-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/victoria\/welcome-jamie-robinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Jamie Robinson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week, (Tuesday the 27<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;of July) a Special General Meeting of the National Council was convened to discuss and make decisions on several administrative matters. As a result Pipe Bands Australia is pleased to announce the appointment of Jamie Robinson to the Position of Principal of Rules &amp; Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jamie replaces Phil Weber who has relinquished that position to take up duties as the national secretary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We take this opportunity to thank Phil for his work as the Principal of Rules &amp; Administration over the past 20 months and welcome Jamie into his new role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>It is an honour and a privilege to be trusted with this appointment. I very much hope that during my tenure I can assist in promoting and increasing knowledge and simplicity in our contests, the operation of our Association and thereby the growth of our movement.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Jamie Robinson &#8211; Princiapl of Rules and Administration<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jamie commenced playing pipes with Scotch College in WA and has played competitively in Australia and in Indonesia, New Zealand, Scotland and Singapore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When not playing pipes, he is a practicing solicitor with an international law firm, having been admitted to practice in the Supreme Courts of WA, NSW and Queensland and the High Court of Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jamie has also been a Vice Chairman of Queensland Branch since 2016 and completed his Advanced Rules and Administration certificate in 2019 when he was also appointed Vice Principal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, (Tuesday the 27th&nbsp;of July) a Special General Meeting of the National Council was convened to discuss and make decisions on several administrative matters. As a result Pipe Bands&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/victoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/victoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/victoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/victoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/victoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/victoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/victoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/victoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/victoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipebandsaustralia.com.au\/victoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}