Arthur Bragg AO

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TitleMrGiven NamesArthur WorrallSurnameBraggPost NominalsAOBiographyPresident Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales 1995 - 2004.

Arthur Worrall Bragg was educated at Tudor House in Moss Vale and Kings School, Parramatta. An avid polo player, he was President of Scone Polo Club and represented NSW and Australia, competing in the UK, USA and New Zealand.

A high-profile merino woolgrower,cattle breeder and finisher, Bragg became manager of the Rossgole Pastoral Company in 1968. He was elected to Council in 1975. He served as Assistant Ringmaster from 1980 to 1989, then Ringmaster until 1995.

As a Vice President from 1990, Arthur Bragg was closely involved with negotiations to relocate the Showground to Homebush Bay. As President he successfully oversaw the completion of the new facilities and commencement of operations. Given the logistics and competing needs of stakeholders, it was the biggest change the Society had undergone in a hundred years and the most complex in its history.

The last Show at Moore Park and the first at Homebush were both outstanding successes, as was the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games which used the Showground as a venue.

In 2002 Arthur Bragg was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for service to primary industry through the RAS of NSW, particularly through the provision of leadership in the area of future growth, for furthering relations between agricultural societies as Chairman of the Australian Council of Agricultural Societies, and for fostering the importance of the organisation in the Australian community. He continues to serve as an honorary Vice-President with the RAS.

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Arthur Bragg AO