MEMBERS OF DUNGOG ARTS SOCIETY…

Please attend the Special General Meeting, appropriately scheduled on April Fool’s Day by Dungog Arts Society’s committee.

As a member of DAS, you need to know the facts, and be prepared to ask questions.

Why? Because your committee is telling lies, discriminating against and bullying a past president and secretary, as well as concealing facts and proof to the contrary, from the members.

There are also questions about their lack of transparency in making payments of large sums of money for items which DAS already owns and did not need to purchase. These items appear NOT to have been purchased, despite large sums of money apparently being given to persons months ago.

Proof of these allegations will be produced to allow the membership to make up their own minds, based on facts, not hearsay.

The committee has not given members one shred of proof that their allegations concerning Lisa Wiseman have any basis in fact. In presenting their case against Lisa, the committee is relying purely on hearsay, and denying plenty of concrete evidence to the contrary.

Lisa has presented the DAS committee with this proof, such as phone logs and screen grabs. This evidence completely contradicts allegations which your Acting President continues to make against Lisa, despite having seen this concrete evidence for themself. In short, your Acting President alleges that what they say is true, regardless of proof to the contrary. This evidence will be produced AGAIN at the meeting so YOU can make up your own mind.

Ask your President to provide THEIR phone logs- they won’t.

The DAS committee has had the information needed to access the domain and hosting all along, they just didn’t look where they were told to look for it.

Ask them why not.

And ask them why they are pursuing Lisa and Lorraine for information that was in their possession before the resignations and/or handed over on a thumb drive by Lorraine.

The committee are basing the revocation of Lisa’s membership on false allegations which appear to be fabricated, and which have been incontrovertibly demonstrated to be false. Yet they are stubbornly persisting in pursuing Lisa for matters which are false, falsely described, or against longstanding precedent.

Another question you, as a member could ask is, “Why are they pursuing Lisa for these matters, and yet they say they are not pursuing Lorraine, when she has also been bullied and harrassed in person, in phone calls and emails by the current committee and members?”

Possible speculative answers could be; spite, ignorance, refusal to listen to common sense, covering their own misdeeds, not wanting their incompetence or ignorance to be exposed…

There are lots of possibilities, few of which make sense. Lisa herself could not understand why this was happening, until she considered the old adage, “follow the money”…

Ask your committee where the $4000 paid out recently went, and WHO was paid how much to do what…

And which committee members and members were paid?

And why there was no breakdown of the payments in the meeting minutes?

And where are the things they were paid to purchase…? Things which they did not need to purchase, at

all…?

So the committee alleges that Lisa resigned without notice, which is true. However, the last NINE persons to resign from DAS positions did so without notice and without any “handover” AT ALL. Some of these caused considerable difficulty to Lorraine, as secretary, and Lisa as President. These persons include a past President who declined to help with any handover because she was “busy”, and did not actually provide an actual resignation, but who has now been rewarded with a Life Membership.

So, if the reason why Lisa’s membership has been revoked is that she resigned without notice, why do some of the current committee members and members who previously resigned without notice still retain membership and hold office now? These are people who resigned without notice, without handover, causing considerable trouble and inconvenience, and yet they are allowed to retain membership.

How can the committee reward one person and punish another for the exact same thing? This smacks of favouritism, bullying and discrimination.

Lisa resigned without notice because current committee members and members bullied her mother, Lorraine Wiseman, and because the same people were flouting promises made to sponsors, promises made in writing, which she believed were legally binding agreements. Despite her best efforts, she could not get these people to see that what they were doing was if not illegal, immoral, and so she resigned without notice, in protest, and to distance herself from these acts which she believed fraudulent. Perhaps she should have told the entire membership then and there what was going on.

No one else seemed to care, apart from the sponsors, and this situation has not been remedied.

The committee alleges that Lisa failed to provide handover after resigning. In fact, Lisa did have phone conversations about handover, and did change over the contact details for domain name and web hosting.

This is proven by her phone logs, showing conversations with Paris and Wendell. However Wendell- with NO evidence and without showing THEIR phone logs says that Lisa had ONE, ONE MINUTE call with Wendell. This is clearly wrong, has been drawn to Wendell’s attention in phone logs and texts emailed to them as attachments, and in hardcopy format by registered mail. Lisa has shown Wendell that their allegation is false.

Yet they continue to spread the lie that Lisa spoke to Wendell for ONE MINUTE.

Lisa’s phone logs are available to be inspected at the meeting to PROVE that Wendell is preading misinformation.

If Lisa did even only speak to Wendell about the website for ONE MINUTE, after resigning, then how can that not be considered an attempt at handover?

Lisa DID speak to Wendell and Paris Goodman about handover, and her phone logs demonstrate this. Wendell themself says that Lisa spoke to them. And then they say that Lisa did NOT speak to them about handover.

Ask your committee to make up their minds whether phone calls about handover- considerably more than Wendell is alleging- are NOT attempts at handing over? These phone calls DID take place. The committee have seen proof- via registered mail- and yet they say it doesn’t exist? They can’t have it both ways, surely.

Lisa says that because Wendell is very ignorant of matters concerning websites, email, domains and hosting, Wendell could not understand, and would not TRY to understand what she was saying about the domain name, email, hosting and websites.

Lisa was President, but also website admin person- two separate positions. And yet she is being punished for resigning the president’s position for actions she took, as website admin, to protect her own intellectual property and banking-related records and details.

In short, Lisa deleted her own intellectual property after resigning from her positions, to leave a “clean slate” for Paris, who she was told would be taking over the website. It is not Lisa’s fault that the committee took weeks to get around to supplying her with details to change over the contacts for domain and hosting.

Or that they, as craftspeople, NOT artists, seem to have no understanding of an artist’s intellectual

property.

During the conversations and texts with Wendell shortly after resigning, Lisa asked for these details, and told Wendell that they had all the details necessary to take over the website. The log ins and other info was supplied to DAS at a meeting in August 2025, as well as ON THE THUMB DRIVE WITH ALL OTHER AVAILABLE FILES by Lorraine Wiseman, in her handover from the secretary position. Wendell could not comprehend what Lisa was saying, and unfortunately, Lisa is NOT a teacher of web design and hosting. But she did TRY to explain. The explanation fell on deaf ears.

At NO POINT did Lisa EVER “own” or “hold onto” the domain or hosting, as Wendell alleges. Wendell HAD all the info needed to transfer the domain and hosting contact, and chose to do nothing about it for weeks, then, months later, blamed Lisa because WENDELL did not understand what Lisa told her, shortly after resigning. And in fact, despite Lisa having phone logs showing that calls took place, and screen grabs showing that she ACTED IMMEDIATELY on the phone calls, Wendell says there was only one very brief phone call?

Lisa has supplied screen grabs and phone records, showing that she DID in fact transfer the domain and hosting contact details when Wendell got around to giving her new info needed. Doing that is hardly NOT handing over. This was proven work Lisa did AFTER resigning her positions. And

yet Wendell says there was “no handover”? Lisa DID make efforts to hand over, but without the requested information from Wendell, she could not do the transfer. The transfers were done IMMEDIATELY after the phone calls- as the logs and screen grabs demonstrate. How can this NOT be a “handover”?

Around January 2026, apparently the committee decided to pay Paris Goodman to buy a new domain and for web hosting. Paris is a hosting reseller. That means, she is a middleman, who sells a hosting company’s services to others, and gets paid a commission. She stood to PROFIT from selling hosting which DAS ALREADY HAD AND COULD ACCESS. Paris apparently told the committee that they couldn’t access the domain and the hosting had NOT been paid for- despite there being receipts held in DAS records, in the name of DAS for domain name renewal and hosting, paid in August, 2025 and 2026.

The Treasurer was well aware of the fact that the domain and hosting had been paid- and yet went along with paying Paris for a new domain and hosting which they didn’t need? Can you say “collusion”? Or should that be “ignorance”? Or perhaps “incompetence”?

Lisa and her mother Lorraine both worked tirelessly and without asking for any payment for their service, to help DAS, and membership numbers and the bank balance both showed that DAS looked like becoming financially viable while they were involved. Then Lorraine resigned, after being verbally attacked and bullied at a committee meeting at which Lisa was not present, by people who are now office holders and committee members. And they are the same people who appear to have profited financially from Lisa and Lorraine’s resignations.

Since then, the Society’s bank balance has dwindled, unnecessary payments have been made for website hosting and domain, and yet there is NO website, no new domain, nothing to show for it.

This meeting to decide whether to uphold Lisa’s appeal or not has been staged at a time convenient to committee members, and no one else who has a day job. There has been no provision for members to vote in any way other than in person. Given the current fuel situation and the timing of the meeting, it appears that the committee do not want members to attend. Are they hoping you, the members don’t ask questions?

Please attend and ask some questions…

Ask your committee why they don’t want members to attend meetings or give you any information on what goes on at meetings?

Ask your committee how much they spent on a new domain and website, it was not in the minutes of their meetings. They seem to be hiding something.

Ask how much Paris was paid. The minutes say she was paid for hosting and domain registration.

Ask HOW MUCH she PERSONALLY PROFITED from steering the committee to buy hosting from her?

Ask how many quotes were sourced for the new website.

Ask where the new website is.

Ask what the new domain name is.

Ask why they refuse to believe their own eyes when given concrete evidence and proof that Lisa never “owned” nor “held onto” the domain.

Ask why they are bullying, and harrassing people who only tried to promote and help DAS. And who DID NOT profit personally. And who proved themselves to be honest.

Ask if YOU are going to be the next person to have their membership revoked if YOU get in their way.

Ask were the money went.

Ask the committee if they can say, “DOUBLE STANDARDS”.

Please attend the Special General Meeting on April Fool’s Day, Wednesday 1 April, 3-4pm, at the Uniting Church Hall, 246 Dowling Street Dungog.

Come along, view the evidence, ASK QUESTIONS, MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND. And vote.