The latest Una Voce drops into my mailbox weighing in at a substantial 68 pages and looking most refined with its recently acquired paper stock, as smooth to the touch as a silk stocking.

Its articles include my letter of resignation from the PNGAA presidency, a generous response from the committee and an unsuccessful attempt at analysis by Graham Taylor, for whom the hazy distance of Adelaide permits no insights into the inner workings of Association politics. Icarus shmickarus, Graham.

Una Voce is published quarterly, can be obtained only by joining the Association and, since this costs just $20 a year, represents a true bargain for anyone with an enduring interest in what happened to old whatsisname last seen on the Rai Coast in ’62. You can become a member by clicking through from here and I encourage you to do so.

The current journal also comes with an embedded proxy form that allows members to exercise a vote for or against constitutional change at a special general meeting scheduled for 26 April, the Sunday after Anzac Day. I suspect that most members will dump this form along with the old newspapers sometime in the next few days.

Accordingly, the most significant constitutional change proposed for the PNGAA in its history has the profile of a drinking lizard. Getting the 75 percent majority of voting members required to achieve a result that will revive and redirect the Association will be difficult. This will need much more targeted information and energetic advocacy than has been the case so far.

So, if you’re a PNGAA member and have your Una Voce to hand, extract that proxy form, put a cross in the ‘yes’ for change box and post it to the Returning Officer. That way, when the resolution is defeated, you can rightly claim it wasn’t your fault.

In PR we’d call the committee’s approach a low profile campaign not intended to rise above the radar and conducted merely as a matter of record.

I will be delighted if the final result proves me wrong.