About the AUS

The Australian Unicycle Society is a national organisation representing unicyclists in Australia that aims to increase awareness of and participation in unicycling as a sport.

Organisational Structure

The AUS has been an incorporated association since 2001.

The Executive Committee is comprised of several roles including:

• President: Nic Vevers
• Vice-President: Roz Beste
• Secretary: Cris Bailiff
• Treasurer: Peter Howard
• Ordinary Member(s):
• Rochelle Braaf (Newsletter Editor)
• Rod Lambert (Public Officer, ACT)
• Scott Griffith (Uninats Organising Committee)

UniNats

The AUS has successfully hosted four Australian Unicycle National Championships (UniNats) - in Canberra (2001 and 2003), Darwin (2005) and Sydney (2007). These events have been attended by scores of unicyclists from around Australia, and by international guests from countries such as New Zealand, Puerto Rico and Switzerland.

Planning is underway for the next UniNats, in Wollongong, NSW over Easter weekend, 2009 (April 10-13). See the Uninats 2009 page for detail.

International Representation

The AUS follows the guidelines of the International Unicycling Federation (IUF). Several prominent members of the AUS have served executive roles on the IUF committee and have also been members of the IUF subcommittees.

Local Support

A key role of the AUS is to support the regional unicycling groups around Australia. AUS offers an affiliation program, where local unicycling groups can become affiliated with the AUS, and get a number of benefits (especially including low-cost insurance coverage, subject to certain conditions).

Local groups currently affiliated with AUS include:

• ACT Unicycle Riders Society Inc. (ACTURS)
• Castlemaine and Community Unicycle Society (CACTUS)
• Unicycle Revesby

Sponsorship of International Visitors

The AUS has invited, and helped to sponsor, high-standard international unicyclists to visit Australia and have them demonstrate their skills and mentor some of the local unicyclists. This has been especially valuable at inspiring young riders and those who have not been able to visit international events like Unicons, to open their eyes to some of the things that it is possible to do with unicycles.

Past guests have included:

• Javier Ruiz, Puerto Rico (UniNats 2001)
• Tony Melton, New Zealand (UniNats 2003)
• Roz Beste, Hong Kong (UniNats 2003)
• Roz had such a good time that she later moved to Melbourne and became a member of the AUS executive!
• Julian Monney, Switzerland (UniNats 2005)