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Cyberattack on AGD’s MarCel portal
Posted by sarahaird | Nov 10, 2022 | Community News | 2 |
Remote witnessing of NOIMS – help make it pe...
Posted by sarahaird | Jul 28, 2022 | Community News, COVID-19, Our Guidelines to Australian Marriage Law | 8 |
It’s time to change the one month notice per...
Posted by Josh Withers | Mar 30, 2021 | Community News | 10 |
Not-as-ongoing professional development
by Josh Withers | Dec 21, 2021 | Community News | 0 |
For the most recent information regarding ongoing professional development and OPD for Australian...
Read MoreRemote witnessing of NOIMS – help make it permanent!
by sarahaird | Jul 28, 2022 | Community News, COVID-19, Our Guidelines to Australian Marriage Law | 8 |
Let’s make remote witnessing of NOIMs permanent! We need your help to change marriage law.
Read MoreMarriage statistics 2021
by sarahaird | Nov 10, 2022 | Community News | 0 |
I was about to give myself a long lunch break when my daily statistics release email came through...
Read MoreCyberattack on AGD’s MarCel portal
by sarahaird | Nov 10, 2022 | Community News | 2 |
The Attorney-General’s department MarCel database has been accessed by hackers. Find out how it was accessed and what we know about the data leak.
Read MoreIt’s time to update and modernise the Marriage Act of 1961
by Josh Withers | Apr 4, 2023 | Community News | 2 |
Over sixty years ago the Australian people were gifted one of the most progressive and liberating...
Read MoreWhy the World Looks to Australia for Wedding Industry Inspiration: 50 years of Celebrancy
by Josh Withers | Jul 15, 2023 | Community News | 0 |
To celebrate fifty years of the Marriage Celebrants program in Australia, Josh Withers looks at how the movement has moved the entire industry forward.
Read MoreWe’ve got a seat at the AGD’s table
by Josh Withers | Oct 18, 2019 | Community News | 3 |
Twice a year the Marriage Law and Celebrants Section (MLCS) of the Attorney General’s...
Read MoreWhy we deliver the best Cert IV in Celebrancy Australia
by Josh Withers | Nov 21, 2019 | Community News | 0 |
If you’re aspiring to be a celebrant in the near future, Sarah and I deliver the Certificate IV in Celebrancy through this very Institute. We’re lucky enough to have experienced, and to continue to experience the full breadth of celebrancy training, students contact us every day with questions their trainers and colleges are answering incorrectly or weirdly.
Read MoreFacebook’s a bit salty at us
by Josh Withers | Feb 20, 2021 | Community News | 0 |
After posting a guide on making sure you and your business is prepared if and when the Facebook ban hammer falls on you, the Facebook ban hammer fell on us.
Read MoreIt’s time to change the one month notice period to one week
by Josh Withers | Mar 30, 2021 | Community News | 10 |
To my fellow celebrants, I have a proposal regarding the one month notice period, and I’d like to run it up your flagpole, so to speak, and then take it to the Australian parliament: that the one month notice period required by the Marriage Act, be reduce to one week.
Read MoreCoronavirus income support for self-employed marriage celebrants
by Josh Withers | Mar 23, 2020 | Community News | 0 |
This blog post does not serve as legal or financial advice. We’re all just reading the Economic Response to the Coronavirus, fact sheet on Income Support for Individuals, on a Monday morning, the 24th of March at 9:50am, so take...
Read MoreCommunicating with couples about COVID-19
by Josh Withers | Mar 23, 2020 | Community News, COVID-19 | 3 |
Do you know the Greek myth of King Sisyphus? As retribution for tricking the gods, he was punished to an eternity of pushing a large boulder up a steep hill only to have it roll back down just as he reached the top. With...
Read MoreCOVID-19 and marriage practicalities – UPDATED
by sarahaird | Mar 28, 2020 | Community News, COVID-19 | 1 |
How do we actually manage marriage ceremonies while respecting social distancing rules?
Read MoreCOVID-19 and critical issues for marriages in Victoria – UPDATED
by sarahaird | Mar 28, 2020 | Community News, COVID-19 | 0 |
BDM Victoria has shut down their offices and their call centre until further notice. This raises two critical marriage issues that they have not clarified. This evening I’ve sent the following email to my local State member, Michael O’Brien, who is the Leader of the Opposition in Victoria. I’ll keep you posted…
Read MoreCheck out an 11 year old celebrant survey
by Josh Withers | Apr 21, 2020 | Community News | 0 |
11 years ago (in 2009), celebrant directory website Celebrante, conducted a survey of about 1400...
Read MoreMLCS & celebrant associations/networks meeting 5 May 2020
by sarahaird | May 11, 2020 | Community News, COVID-19 | 2 |
I attended the meeting between the Marriage Law & Celebrant Section of the Attorney-General’s Department and celebrant associations and networks last Tuesday. It’s taken me much longer to write a report for you...
Read MoreHow to update your Bose S1 speaker’s software
by Josh Withers | Oct 14, 2019 | Community News | 2 |
You can update the software on your Bose S1 speaker, and it comes with new features like using your speakers with the Bose Connect app, whilst also making the speakers operate with greater stability.
Read MoreAnnual fee waived!
by sarahaird | May 15, 2020 | Community News | 0 |
No annual fee for celebrants for 2020-2021!
Read MoreLook out for a zero dollar invoice for the annual celebrant charge
by Josh Withers | Jul 13, 2020 | Community News | 0 |
The Attorney-General’s department has let us know that they are starting to send out those $0 annual celebrant charge invoices today. Make sure you pay that $0 quickly otherwise you’ll be in $0 debt, and the interest on that will be expensive.
Read MoreMLCS & celebrant associations/networks meeting 28 October 2019
by sarahaird | Nov 2, 2019 | Community News | 2 |
I attended my first meeting with the other celebrant association/networks and staff from the Marriage Law and Celebrants Section (MLCS) of the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department (AGD) on Monday 28 October 2019. Here’s a summary of what was discussed!
Read MoreWe have changed membership systems
by Josh Withers | Jul 25, 2020 | Community News, COVID-19 | 0 |
Just a quick note for members of the Celebrant Institute, your membership management, updating of cards, changing plans, logging in, and just using it, has become a whole lot easier. It’s involved four weeks of work on my...
Read More2018 marriage and divorce statistics, 5.5% increase
by sarahaird | Nov 27, 2019 | Community News | 2 |
The annual release of marriage and divorce statistics by the Australian Bureau of Statistics occurs every year around 27 November. Right on time, the statistics for the full calendar year 2018 were released today at 11.30am. If you’re interested you can find all the information on the ABS website.
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