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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• HISTORY BY NUMBERS
• 1947/8
• First club formed in Lismore
• 2007/8
• Approximately 1,300 Club and around 27,500
• members
• Beyond 2007/8
• Lets look at a 60 year timeline comparison
• to determine successful future growth

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• MEMBER GENDER
• 1947/8
• Male members only
• 2007/8
• Both male and female members
• We now have twice the opportunity
• to grow

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• WORKING HOUSEHOLDS
• 1947/8
• Most working households only one
• breadwinner normally male
• 2007/8
• Most working households two
• breadwinners one male and one female

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELIME COMPARISON

• WORKING HOURS
• 1947/8
• Heavy majority typical 9-5 Mon-Fri
• (by 1963 still a high 65)
• 2007/8
• Just 8 typical 9-5 Mon-Fri

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• OVERTIME
• 1947/8
• A small minority
• 2007/8
• Worked by many both paid unpaid

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• SHIFT WORK
• 1947/8
• Only worked by a small minority
• 2007/8
• Now worked by an ever increasing number
• (many with shifts varying week to week)

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• WEEKEND WORK
• 1947/8
• A small minority
• 2007/8
• Many and continuing to expand

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• PART TIME CASUAL WORK
• 1947/8
• Limited to a small minority
• 2007/8
• Now being worked by an ever increasing
• number

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• EMPLOYEE VOCATIONS
• 1947/8
• For many only the one vocation area in
• their working lifetime
• 2007/8
• Many now have multiple vocation
• changes

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• EMPLOYERS IN WORKING LIFE
• 1947/8
• A significant number had only one employer
• 2007/8
• An ever increasing number of employees
• have an ever increasing number of
• employers

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• WORK POSITIONS HELD AT THE
• ONE TIME
• 1947/8
• A heavy majority held only one
• 2007/8
• A much larger number now juggle more
• than one position

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• WORK IMPACT ON ATTENDANCE
• 1947/8
• As most worked in a daytime weekday position,
• it did not prevent most members from regularly
• attending 2 weeknight club meetings a month
• 2007/8
• Now difficult for many in society, at time of
• membership consideration, to commit to
• Regular meeting attendance

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• RETAIL SHOPPING HOURS
• 1947/8
• Most businesses traded 9-5 Mon-Fri, some
• traded Sat morning, but through doing so
• Closed one weekday afternoon
• 2007/8
• Many trade 7 days, including evenings
• Evening shopping competes with most
• Lions Club meetings

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• MARRIAGE AGE
• 1947/8
• Women and men early 20s
• 2007/8
• Women and men late 20s early 30s

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• PARENT AGE WHEN CHILDREN
• ARE BORN
• 1947/8
• Mainly in their 20s
• 2007/8
• Many now in their 30s through to early
• 40s

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• MAJOR PARENTING DUTIES
• 1947/8
• As most married women did not work,
• they assumed the major parenting duties
• 2007/8
• Now most married women work, resulting
• in the parenting becoming more equal
• with men

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIME LINE COMPARISON

• HOUSEHOLD DOMESTIC TASKS
• 1947/8
• As most women did not work, they
• performed the majority of domestic tasks
• 2007/8
• Now as most women work, many men
• strongly contribute, leading to a more
• equal sharing of domestic work

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHILDREN
• 1947/8
• A limited range of ex school and home
• activities for children
• 2007/8
• For most, a huge expansion in activities,
• with parents encouraging participation

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• TRANSPORTATION OF
  CHILDREN
• 1947/8
• Car ownership was low, so for many, activities
• were limited to those within reasonable
• walking distance
• 2007/8
• As most families have one or more cars, with
• mum or dad driving, it has opened up wider
• geographical opportunities for children

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• THE ISSUE OF SAFETY
• 1947/8
• Household doors unlocked, safe to walk,
• safe to use public transport
• 2007/8
• Household doors now locked, many places
• unsafe to walk, even public transport
• no guarantee to be safe

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• MORE IMPLICATIONS FOR
  LIONS
• 1947/8
• Being younger at marriage and as parents, saw
• an early development of a sense of community-
• With women happy to provide a major
• contribution to domestic and parenting duties,
• and with lower vehicle mobility and a safer
• society, it was much easier for men to take
• up Lionism many dads were still in their
• 30s when children became teens

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE FOR LIONS

• MORE
  IMPLICATIONS FOR
• LIONS CONTINUED
• 2007/8
• Time has become a major enemy to potential
• members (male and female). In addition to
• mum and dad both working, shopping can be
• over 7 days, including nights, they equally
• share parenting domestic duties, drive
• children to a wider range of activities, doing
• so because of mobility and safety Many are
• well over 40 before children are teens

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• NATIONAL ANTHEM
• 1947/8
• God Save the King at most functions the
• pictures balls and dances on the radio
• and a little later in the 50s on television
• 2007/8
• Advance Australia Fair - at limited functions
• - not at the cinema, balls and dances and
• not on radio and television

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• TOAST TO THE MONARCH
• 1947/8
• At many meetings and functions
• 2007/8
• Now at very limited meetings and
• functions

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• FORM OF DEMOCRACY
• 1947/8
• Monarchial with strong support across all
• all age groups
• 2007/8
• Still monarchial however now minority
• support only from those aged under 50

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• SPOKEN SALUTATIONS
• 1947/8
• Mr, Mrs, Miss, Sir, Madam, Lion, Past District
• Governor etc and as well men raised their hat
• to women
• 2007/8
• Jack, Jill, and still Lion and still Past
  District
• Governor etc and now men generally do not
• wear hats

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• CLUBS, ASSOCIATIONS GROUPS
• 1947/8
• Available but limited
• 2007/8
• Extensive

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS
• 1947/8
• Limited
• 2007/8
• Extensive and therefore diminishing the
• general spread of Lions service, when
• measured against past decades Perhaps
• a need for more targeted service

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• POPULATION DENSITY
• 1947/8
• Decentralised A good spread between capital
• city, regional and rural communities
• 2007/8
• The Sea Change is here greater density in
• cap cities .. essentially the larger the
• population, the less the Sense of Community
• Perhaps a need to create groups of common
• interest to maintain Lionism presence

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• MEMBER AGE
• 1947/8
• From 1947 onwards for more than 30 years,
• members came from all adult age groups
• 2007/8
• Average age now 60 plus .. In some clubs
• most members are in 70s and 80s - very
• few members aged under 45 years

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• MEMBER RECRUITMENT
• 1947/8
• Many one on one invitations to membership
• 2007/8
• Partly caused by an aging and often retired
• membership, a dwindling in contacts, has
• produced less one on one invitations

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1947/8 2007/8A 60 YEAR TIMELINE COMPARISON

• OUR MISSION IF WE CHOOSE
  TO
• ACCEPT IT
• While much has changed in 60 years, the need
• for service to others remains .. Our mission,
• therefore, is to embrace and reflect the change
• of the past six decades so that in the operation
• of our clubs we accomplish the following -
• Satisfaction for current members
  
• Satisfaction for future members
• Satisfaction for those we serve
• Let us accept and succeed