Robb College Rugby Union Football Club - 1983 1st Grade Premiers Reunion & 40th Anniversary and - 1979 3rd Grade Premiers Reunion & 44th Anniversary SYDNEY.

“the older we get, the better we were”

 Date: 28th October 2023, at 12.30 pm

 Venue: Crown Plaza, Coogee Beach, 242 Arden St, Coogee

 Lunch: $135 (2 course lunch and 3 hr drinks package)

 Come along and see old friends from the 70’s and 80’s.

Back in the early 80's, on a cold day at Armidale Showgrounds, the mighty Robb College lead by Dave Pratten had a fine victory over the tough boys of Armidale City lead by Greg Cornelsen and John Hipwell.

While hard to believe it's 40 years since that fine victory, it's time to remember how good we were and catch up with friends from the 70's and 80's!

 Accommodation available at the Crown Plaza, an IHG hotel

(Book online and join free the One rewards club for a 10% discount)

Invitation to celebrate the Robb College Annual Sports Ball. We encourage parents/carers, sponsors, students, and SCR members to come and enjoy a fantastic night put together by the Robb sporting committees.

 There is a limited number of tickets so please purchase promptly through the link below:

https://www.trybooking.com/CAXLP

This is an invitation to all Robb Alumni and Friends of the College from the Robb Rugby Club to return to the College for a day to watch rugby, etc to raise funds for the club to send a team to Canada later this year.

Go here to buy a ticket or contact the organisers: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing?eid=927717&fbclid=IwAR3ye3WkUnnUXfE-PwWCCpWQx1EIWqdTlCOMWlgahozMHDsdZEi5i6DC1WQ

There are TWO Robb Alumni groups returning to College on 30th July for the Robb-Albies Rugby and Ladies Day:-

1. - 25th Anniversary of the 1996 Britain Rugby Tour Group.

   CONTACT: Simon Scott: s.scott@uq.edu.au Tel: 0418875975

2. - 20th Anniversary Group.

   CONTACT: George Hoddle: ghoddle@eversol.com.au Tel: (02) 6766 1066

Robb College invites Alumni & Friends of the College to the 2022 Rural Focus Dinner:-

“The Murray Darling Basin: A delicate dance for water, community, agriculture and the environment”

Guest Speaker: Andrew McConville

Chief Executive - Murray-Darling Basin Authority

Robb College Dining Hall

Call the College Office to book tickets. Seats are limited. Tel: 6773 3370

Robb College Foundation invites you to a special appeal dinner and reunion in Brisbane.

“Who will be our Future Farmers? Who wants to be a Farmer?

Discover the answers and meet the Master of Robb. Network with Robb Alumni.

At Regatta Hotel from 5.30pm Wednesday 13th November 2019.

Ticket is $75.00 and covers cocktail style dinner with drinks. Any net funds go to the appeal.

Help us reach our appeal target to raise $60,000 before Christmas to enable us to launch our new Leader Scholar pathway for the 60th Year of Robb commencing 2020.

PLACES STILL AVAILABLE - please RSVP NOW. See the invitation below for details and please send your email RSVP immediately to:-

Mr Jamie Moore mmoore8@une.edu.au or phone College Office on 02 6773 1700.

2 Robb Netball teams make the Grand Finals.

Robb Rams and Bumble Bee’s get through to the grand finals.

Come along to cheer on the girls to victory 🏆🤩🥇🎉

A Res Rams vs. Impies
10:30 New Hall UNE

B Grade Bumble Bees vs. Albies Yellow
9:30 New Hall UNE

GOOD LUCK GIRLS.

Three Robb teams make the New England Rugby Grand Finals.

Come and support the Mens 1st and 2nd XV’s and the Womens Sevens.

1st XV and Womens 7’s are the defending champions from 2018.

10.55am - 4th Grade - Tamworth vs Albies

11.10am - 3rd Grade - Tamworth vs Glen Innes

12.40pm - 7’s Womens - Robb vs Barbets

1.00pm - 2nd Grade - Robb vs Albies

2.40pm - 7’s Womens - Robb vs Barbets

3.00pm - 1st Grade - Robb vs Albies

The 2019 Rural Focus Symposium will be held on the 25th July at UNE.

This year’s theme is "Family or Corporate Farming - Learning from each other”

“One day I’ll be returning to run the family farm. I’m worried are they sustainable?
How can we remain profitable? Do we have to get bigger to survive?”

How is farming changing?
What are the key measures used by successful operators?
How can you collaborate to grow and remain competitive?

Speakers for our 2019 Symposium include:

Professor Derek Baker, UNE Business School
David Sackett, CEO, Growth Farms Australia
Jock Whittle, CEO, Paraway Pastoral Co.
David Brownhill, Merrilong Pastoral/AMPS Agribusiness
Charles Coventry, Ag-Edge
Simon Fritsch, Agri-Path
Sam Ditchfield, Ebor Beef
Andrew Roberts, The Farm Owners Academy
Dr Lou Conway, Director, UNE SMART Region Incubator

• Are our Family farm models profitable, competitive, sustainable? • Are our Corporate farmers really the big bad guys some people make out? • How are leading family farmers measuring their business and what are they doing to remain competitive and ease the pressure?

Let’s learn from each other; Don’t farm alone; Benchmark to the best • Best practice examples • Lessons from Family for Corporate farms • Lessons from Corporate for Family farms

Open to and suitable for students, researchers, academics, producers, wholesalers, industry suppliers, and investors.

Join a Q&A with some leading representatives in the Agricultural space. What are the issues they are confronted with and how are they dealing with them?

What are the latest management techniques these leading family and corporate farmers are using?

Come and learn from others’ experience. Rural Focus will help you build your network with current leaders, other industry organisations and our future leaders..

Early bird tickets are available now for $75.00 but get in fast as these are sure to go out the door very quickly! For more information regarding event booking, detailed information on speakers as well as a schedule of events open the program below.
The Rural Focus Dinner and Symposium is an initiative of the Robb College Foundation.

18th Annual Robb Ruralfocus Dinner

Open to Alumni & Industry to attend - why not book a table & bring your clients?

Wednesday 24 July at Armidale Bowling Club - BLACK-TIE EVENT

5.30pm Cocktail commencement

6.15pm Please be seated in the Conference Room for 6.30pm Welcome and Opening 6.45pm Dinner

Guest Speaker: David Brownhill, Merrilong Pastoral

“My Stories in Agriculture. Issues & Opportunities for the future”

David Brownhill completed a Bachelor of Applied Science - Agriculture degree at Hawkesbury Ag College and graduated with awards in leadership and sportsmanship. He jointly manages Merrilong Pastoral Company whose five properties focus on dryland and irrigated grain production. David is also a founding director of a grower group of 24 farms, AMPS Commercial Pty Ltd, which is committed to information dissemination, structured farming and returning profits to research.

He undertook a Nuffield Scholarship in 1997 and has since gone on to hold roles with the state, national executive, board chair and governance/finance Committee of Nuffield.

David also sits on the RAS foundational board, is a regular presenter at the GRDC Grains Research Updates, been a member of GRDC Update committees and presented at ABARES and the Oxford Conference on Australian Agriculture.