Latest News: Coming Soon New on-line membership system allowing members to update their details, renew their membership and buy ADA branded clothing. There will be a link from this site. New Sub Branch formed in Western Australia Due to the dedication of a few local deer hunters, a sub branch has been formed in Perth. For details of meetings and activities, please call president Rick Mazza 0427 168 178 or secretary Joe Eastermann 0428 357 263. New Sub Branch for Brisbane Brisbane is expanding towards the Gold Coast with a new sub branch being formed. Click here Queensland Hunting & Outdoor Show 2010 Bigger. Better. Be there. If you're within cooee of Morayfield over the weekend of 2/3 October and want to see the best hunting and outdoor gear available in the state, then click here for details. New Sub Branch in classic sambar country It seems too logical that the newest Victorian branch of the ADA should be located in the heart of sambar country. Click here for details of the Upper Goulburn Sub Branch. Buy your ADRF books & DVDs on-line Click here to visit the ADRF bookshop The Australian Deer Association
was formed specifically to better the deer's status and to ensure its perpetuity as a free roaming game animal. We believe that this Association represents the widest possible range of deer interest. Its members comprise the most experienced deerhunters and deer managers in Australia. It welcomes the expression of opinions by any person or group with a genuine interest in deer. It is not sufficient to have preconceived ideas on management, for in these critical and formative years, problems which are peculiar to the Australian scene must be solved by the application of experience. Scientific study, the basis of all sound deer management is dependent upon skills and finance which are not immediately available. This fundamental problem will be solved, but in the meantime this Association is carrying out work of the utmost importance. Since its formation in 1969 the A.D.A. (to use the accepted abbreviation) has sought to include in its membership all aspects of deer interest, stalkers, houndmen, bowhunters, wildlife photographers, management enthusiasts, deer breeders, in fact anyone with a realistic involvement. All these people have one common interest - the deer. This is the paramount factor and acknowledging this enables us to overcome widely diverse views, and work towards the ultimate objective - the deer established in its rightful place as the game animal of Australia, accepted and managed as such at government level, thus ensuring its place among Australia's wildlife. This objective cannot be achieved unless we work together. So if you have the all-important interest in our deer and are wondering what you can do to improve the situation, and at the same time widen your own appreciation of the matters involved, you cannot do better than join the Australian Deer Association. Download a Membership Application Form (pdf) | 