DUFF 2005 IS A'COMIN' UP!

Calling all fans! -- or at least, every North American fan who has ever wanted to visit OZ ...

2005 could be your chance! For the Down Under Fan Fund will be selecting a new delegate for North American Sf fandom to the June, 2005 Australian National SF Convention in Hobart, Tasmania -- and it could be you!

Find three American, Canadian or Mexican science fiction fans, and two from Australia and/or New Zealand. When nominations become open (on January 1, 2005) ask them to send letters of nomination to the current North American DUFF administrators, GUY & ROSY LILLIAN, at P.O. Box 53092, New Orleans LA 70153-3092 (or GHLIII@yahoo.com).

You, the candidate, send us a $25 bond, a pledge to attend the Natcon if elected and to administer the DUFF fund until your successor is chosen, and a 100-word platform. Ballots will go out on FEBRUARY 15th, 2005, and votes -- with a minimum $4 US ($6 Australian) fee -- will be accepted until MAY 1st, 2005. Either Guy & Rosy or the Australia/New Zealand delegate, NORMAN CATES, will accept ballots -- but we're getting far ahead of ourselves!

Two months remain until nominations are closed! Plenty of time to get a campaign together -- run for DUFF -- and fulfill the fannish dream of a lifetime, a journey to Oz ...

SPREAD THE WORD!

THE 2005 DUFF RACE IS UNDERWAY!


Nominations for the 2005 Down Under Fan Fund delegate are now open. The North American winner will attend the Australian National SF Convention June 10-13 in Hobart, Tasmania -- and experience first hand the Joys of Oz!

To appear on the DUFF ballot, a candidate must submit nominations from 3 North American nominators and two from Australia and/or New Zealand. Nominations will close February 15, 2005.

Ballots will go forth as quickly as possible. and will be downloadable from this website. Anyone who wishes may also publish ballots for their conventions and fanzines, or downloadable ballots on their own sites.

Ballots must include a voting fee of at least $4US or $6Aus. Ballots will be accepted until April 15th, the winner announced as soon as the current administartors, Norman Cates in New Zealand, and Guy and Rosy Lillian in America, confer.

Candidates should start preparations towards obtaining their passports and visas NOW.

Any questions or comments should be directed to Cates or the Lillians via e-mail. (Norman is at normanc@clear.net.nz, the Lillians at GHLIII@yahoo.com or rmlillian@bellsouth.net.)

The Lillians will be moving from their New Orleans home at year's end, probably to Shreveport, Louisiana, but they will be maintaining their New Orleans post office. A new address will be posted here when available.

EVER WANT TO GO DOWNUNDER? DUFF 2005 IS YOUR CHANCE!