This article presents the author's response to to W.G.K. Duncan's 1961 paper, "Agenda for a national association", in the first number of the "Australian Journal of Adult Education," the journal of the newly established Australian Association of Adult Education (AAAE). The brief has been interpreted in this way. Duncan viewed AAAE as an "outsider" and proposed challenges for the new association without giving guidance as to how the challenges may have been met. As an "insider", the author proposes to review Duncan's challenges, how they were dealt with, or ignored. Then he plans to look at newer challenges that the growing association has had to meet and some current concerns.