2025 Introduction to Topics for Conference

Introduction

The whole 2025 Topics for Conference can be download from the Members Website under TOOLS or here

These are the Topics that will be discussed and voted on by Conference in November 2025.

These are usually distributed via the Area Delegates to the GSRs who then in turn ensure their group members are aware of the Topics and have discussed them so that their GSR be informed of their Home Group’s Group

Conscience on the Topics when they attend their Area Assembly. Doing this means that they can be part of an informed discussion there. This in turn allows the Area Delegates to be informed with the Group Conscience of their Area on each topic when they take part in the General Service Conference.

Assemblies and Delegates alike should remember that Area Delegates are not representative of Areas in the usual political sense. Conference is the collective Conscience of AA Australia as a whole. Area Delegates do not go to the Australian General Service Conference to push for special benefits for their respective Areas. They go primarily to render a service to Australian and to world AA, to ensure that AA continues to function – as a whole.

Certainly, they should bring with them the viewpoints of their own Areas on Australian issues, or such local problems as may affect AA as a whole. But Area Delegates are always servants, never senators. Based on a bigger picture gained from sharing with others at Conference, a Delegate may well gain a different  understanding of an issue and should be free to follow his or her conscience in voting. (The Australian AA Service Manual – p61).

See Concept III on “Right of Decision” for a full explanation. The Conference Steering Committee will aim to provide the Conference Topics Document by the end of July each year. This will give GSRs Area Delegates (and)

two months to organise group conscience discussions and Area Topic Assemblies. This time frame is suggested as Conference Committee meetings are scheduled to take place starting in early October.

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