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WNBR Australia National Convention 2008-2009

Following the success of WNBR promotional activities at CONFEST over the 2007-2008 New Year period and again over Easter 2008, the first WNBR Australia National Convention will be held at CONFEST over the 2008-2009 New Year period. Everyone is welcome to participate. Please bring your pushbike. The terrain is fairly flat though there are no paved roads within the Confest site so it suits bikes with wide tyres like BMXs, Mountain Bikes, Ladies Shopper Bikes and Cruisers. Road bikes and racers are not recommended. The area is known for having thorns which can pierce tyres and tubes so make your tyres thorn-proof if you can and bring a puncture repair kit. Features of the programme include:

• Twice daily clothing optional bike rides through the vast natural Confest private site.
• Pre-Ride body painting workshops.
• Pre-Ride mud baths.
• Post-Ride skinny dipping and refreshment.
• Bike fixing workshops. Learn how to fix and repair your bike with help and instruction from a professional bike mechanic. Tools are supplied for use at the workshop.
• New Organiser's Workshop. Learn how to become a World Naked Bike Ride organiser and plan a World Naked Bike Ride in your town or city.
• Australian Organisers National Conference. New and existing Organisers and Coordinators will meet to plan future WNBR activities within Australia.

Links to Confest

• Official ConFest website
• ConFest Facebook group
• ConFest 2008-2009
• What do you need for confest A networking tool for people going to confest needing lifts, tents, dog minding etc
• carpooling forum at confest.org.au
• ConFest Yahoo group
• Bender's ConFestHippy site
• Sydney Confesters
• Sydney ConFest Yahoo! group
• Sydney ConFest Facebook group
• Brisbane ConFest Facebook group

Media enquiries

Media enquiries for Adelaide: please contact Marte Kinder the WNBR Australia Coordinator.

Media enquiries for Brisbane: please contact Dario Western the WNBR Brisbane Organiser.

Media enquiries for Byron Bay: please contact Byron Bike Rider the WNBR Byron Bay Organiser.

Media enquiries for Melbourne: please contact Heidi the WNBR Melbourne Organiser.

Media enquiries for Nimbin: please contact Jacmul the WNBR Nimbin Organiser.

Media enquiries for Sydney: please contact Marte Kinder the WNBR Sydney Organiser.

Media enquiries for the rest of Australia and Newcastle: please contact Marte Kinder the WNBR Newcastle Organiser, WNBR Australia Coordinator and Media Liaison.

Press releases

• WNBR Australia press release
• Melbourne press release
• Sydney press release

Media coverage

• BBC News, 22 Jan 2007: "Australians embrace pedal power"
• Mei Qi Tan (freelance journalist), 10 Dec 2007: "Stripping for society’s sake - Exposing nudity in social protests"
• Aduki Independent Press, 04 Mar 08, "World Naked Bike Ride"

History

Australia has participated in the World Naked Bike Ride since 2004. Check local ride location pages for further information.

Future

Organisers are planning rides for several cities in Australia. All the cities with media contacts have future rides planned. Where rides have not occurred or not occurred in the last 12 months, it is often the case that there is no one who has volunteered to organise the next ride in that location. People interested in participating or organising a WNBR in Australia should join the discussion group appropriate to their location (or the WNBR AustraliaYahoo! group if none of the existing discussion groups are appropriate), try to make contact with others with similar views and demonstrate some initiative. It will happen if you help make it happen! Please refer to the Organizing a ride page for more information about starting or restarting a ride.

Publicity: flyers, posters, images etc

These are the current flyer, poster and BIG POSTER to be used for the WNBR Australia 2009 to help promote participation. Please print these and stick them up where people will see them. Why not colour one in and stick it to your refrigerator?

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  BIG POSTER

Links

Website/s

• WNBR Australia (official site)

Discussion group/s

• WNBR Australia Yahoo! group

Endorsements

The following organisations support and/or endorse WNBR Australia:

• Critical Mass Australia, see Critical Mass Wiki also Michael Bluejay's Critical-Mass.Info
• Bicycle Institute of South Australia Inc.
• Rising Tide Australia Grassroots Climate Action
• The Biking Revolution
• ClimateMovement
• www.futureenergy.org Futureenergy has great information pages on climate change, clean energy, polluting energy, energy efficient homes and transport solutions.
• The Rainforest Information Centre
• Envirowiki
• South East Queensland Nudists A Forum for SE Queensland nudists. Regular group bushwalks and social activities are held around SE Queensland.
• Byron Bay - Rainbow Region Community Noticeboard
• blueorange natural health, sprituality + social activism
• Free Beaches Australia Inc.
• Australian Sun & Health
• Australian Sun and Health
• Antinuclear Australia news
• The Otesha Project (Australia): Cycling for Sustainability