sentences:  Shortly after, on 28 March 1994 Dally Messenger, the president of the Australian Federation of Civil Celebrants joined with Robert Ross, secretary of the Association of Civil Marriage Celebrants of Victoria in a meeting with the Honorable Peter Duncan, the assistant minister in charge of celebrants, and asked him for the deregulation of the fee for marriages, and a number of other reforms.Duncan, after several months of correspondence, responded negatively by appointing 1000 extra celebrants.This provocative action galvanised all eleven celebrant organisations to challenge the government via the media.