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23.01.2022 Part of being a Rotarian is aspiring to make the world a better place. One Rotarian who truly delivered on this promise was Sir Clem Renouf, who passed away on ...11 June. Clem hailed from Nambour, Qld, and was president of Rotary International in 1978-79. However, he will perhaps be longest remembered for the pivotal role he played in helping rid the world of polio. If you would like to honour the life of this amazing man, Ian and fellow RI Past President Bill Boyd urge you to consider supporting the cause Sir Clem was so passionate about End Polio Now. Along with Past RI Director Noel Trevaskis and RI Director-elect Jessie Harman, Ian and Bill have established The Sir Clem Renouf Polio Appeal. For details, please visit https://www.dropbox.com/s/pt03tzanf89/TSCRPA_Flyer_EP.docx

21.01.2022 Deb Robertson whom you have met when she was visiting from Ballarat is running these catch up sessions

20.01.2022 The future is here! How to attract young people to Rotary is a question we have debated for decades. Here are the answers from a new breed of Rotary leaders who... are disrupting the traditional Rotary club models in Australia. Gold Coast Passport Rotary in my District 9640 is now the fastest growing new Rotary club in Australia. Follow them on FB or LinkedIn and share with friends. Join these #PeopleOfAction Candice Jade Olivier Wayne Froneman Carey Cam Marlie Jolanda Nancy Kyriakides Alex Kyriakides Patrick Mauder Marc Nuss Jacob Kay Angie K Pulido Nipedal Kasia Brzezicka Meagan Martin Christian Hammerle Brett Maloney Ryan Tarrant Scott Chesterton Guy Murphy Amy Thomson See more

20.01.2022 Education and reading are two things that most of us take for granted - not so for developing countries though. September turns Rotary's focus to Basic Education and Literacy #basiceducationandliteracymonth

18.01.2022 WWHS Community Health and Wellbeing Grants are now open for 2020! We recognise that health and wellbeing grows in our communities, in our towns and in our p...eople. We also recognise that making improvements in health and wellbeing requires some support. WWHS is offering both financial assistance (up to $5,000 per project) and the support of our dedicated Health Promotion team to help our local communities to identify and address opportunities to improve health and wellbeing. Online application portal is open: https://form.jotform.com/WWHS/wwhs-community-hp-grants-2020 Applications close 11:59m Sunday 15 November 2020. Want to know more or discuss a potential project? Please contact Dorothy Mclaren, WWHS Health Promotion Manager, on 0427 085 896 or email [email protected]. You can also attend a one hour information session at 1pm on Wednesday 28 October 2020 via Zoom. Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/99149930864 Meeting ID: 991 4993 0864 Passcode: 608361

18.01.2022 The Rotary Club of Yea invites you to join their online meeting via Zoom on Thursday 12 November at 7.30 pm when our very special guest will be Past Rotary Inte...rnational President Ian Riseley. Ian is also a current Trustee of the Rotary Foundation and he will speak about Our Foundation and answer any questions you might have for a past RI President. The meeting is via Zoom and pre-meeting fellowship commences at 7.15. The Meeting ID is 930 8034 5830. Meeting Password is 239 717. With the relaxing of current COVID-19 restrictions, Yea Rotary will be looking to resume it's 'face-to-face' meetings following this meeting. See more

16.01.2022 The Rotary Club of Warracknabeal is saddened by the loss of an exmember Stan Deans. Earlier this year our Club presented Stan with a 3 Sapphire Paul Harris Fellow for his 52 years of service with Rotary. Deepest sympathy to Carol and family. Gone to Higher Service.

15.01.2022 Rotaract are planning something, but we need your help! Can you offer us 2 mins of your time to help us create the ultimate RUOK awareness video? If you can p...lease message us so we can give you the low down and get this project off the ground! Ask friends and family if they can also help! See more

14.01.2022 That is why the Skyhydrant is so good. It can be quickly move if necessary. Hope all is well after the flood.

14.01.2022 On 25 August 2020, the African region was officially certified wild poliovirus-free. Posters from Rotary’s archives highlight early social mobilization efforts that helped us achieve this milestone. Follow End Polio Now for more info.

14.01.2022 Hat Day is our annual national mental health research fundraising event. It's also a chance to create awareness of mental illness. Get involved or make a donation this October: https://buff.ly/2AWleKO #Liftthelidonmentalillness

12.01.2022 Your support of mental health research can help the 1 in 5 Australians who suffer a mental illness every year. There's never been a more important time to donate: https://buff.ly/2SF32va #Liftthelidonmentalillness

12.01.2022 The times they are a-changing friends! And in all kinds of feel good ways. We have our first female RI President-Nominee (well, not officially until 1 October, ...but who’s counting?), we have the world’s very first Rotaract Pride Club in support of the LGBTIQ+ community, and, after decades of work across 47 countries on the continent, the World Health Organisation has declared the African region wild poliovirus-free! In a time when ‘the new normal’ is the catchphrase on everyone’s lips, we are loving the look of this ‘new normal’! Check it all out in the September edition of Rotary Down Under. See more

12.01.2022 We are fundraising for Interplast through an online raffle. Funds raised will go directly to Interplast Aust & NZ to support their efforts to develop plastic a...nd reconstructive surgery services in SE Asia and the South Pacific. 1st prize $3500 travel voucher, 2nd prize $1500 travel voucher. Please note these prizes can be taken as cash. Click the link to buy tickets online: https://www.stickytickets.com.au/UW4NH

11.01.2022 Rotary History Bite #23/100: Quirks of How it Happened Many people have an inkling of when and how Rotary got a kick start in Australia and New Zealand. But the... story has some interesting quirks. The common story involves 2 Canadian Commissioners from Calgary and Halifax, Jim Davidson and Layton Ralston, who established clubs in Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington and Auckland in 1921. Their approach was to take a few weeks of exploring a list of prominent people with stature who might form the core group of 35 needed to get things going. Once the quorum was achieved, the first meeting took place and the club was underway with an organization luncheon. Melbourne, 21st April Sydney, 17th May Wellington, 7th June Auckland, 14th June. But what you may not know are 14 quirky parts of the story. 1. William Drummond from Melbourne had started exploring a Rotary expansion in 1913 but was delayed by WW1. He became the first Honorary Secretary at Rotary Melbourne, even though he was not deemed to be senior enough to become a Charter member until September 1921! 2. There were many discussions through the years aimed at creating a Rotary presence in the Antipodes that simply went nowhere. Eventually, Rotarians Davidson and Ralston were appointed Commissioners with special powers to undertake this important work for Rotary. Canadians were most likely appointed because of cultural similarity along with a preparedness by the Canadian Advisory Committee to provide $2000 and member support for the mission. 3. Commissioners Davidson and Ralston had never met prior to departure and became colleagues when they boarded the steamer Ventura in San Francisco for a 3-week voyage through the Pacific and total journey of 4 months. 4. In March 1921, a gentleman from Victoria (named Hall-Jones) arrived in Auckland with a letter of introduction from the secretary of the Victoria club. As Fowlds himself remembered: I utilised his presence in Auckland to issue invitations to about fifty of our citizens to a luncheon in the Pacific Club, to meet Mr Jones and listen to a talk about Rotary. I got a splendid response, and at the close of the luncheon a small committee was appointed to consider the question of forming a Rotary Club in Auckland. How this sits with the role of the 2 Canadian Commissioners is unknown. 5. Davidson and Ralston had passed through Auckland on the way to Sydney and met Sir George Fowlds who eventually became their first President, several months later. The legacy of Sir George has been strong ever since with 5 generations of his family maintaining a continuous Rotary lineage. Sir George’s great grandson, is DG D9920 for the centenary of his ancestors endeavours. 6. Sir George was so keen to get things underway that he wrote to the International Association to accelerate the consummation of Rotary DownUnder. So, Charter documents were prepared for all four clubs and sent to the Commissioners dated Sunday, 1st May a date that preceded any exploratory meetings with potential members in Sydney, Wellington and Auckland. It only takes a bit of magic dust to create excitement! 7. Sir John Monash was a founding member and may have known, or known of, Lt Col Layton Ralston during the combined Australian & Canadian campaigns on the Western Front and importantly at the decisive Battle of Amiens in WW1. There is no evidence either way that they did have previous connections, but interestingly Monash was the first person that was called upon by Ralston. 8. Another Melbourne founder was Harold Clapp who coyly took some time to declare that he had already been a Rotarian in Columbus, Ohio and became a Rotarian prior to Commissioner Ralston. Mr Clapp became the first Vice President of Rotary Melbourne. Similarly, the US Trade Commissioner Thomas Sammons had been a Rotarian in Shanghai. 9. Davidson had also been informed that the club Charters had already been signed in Chicago and he was ‘instructed’ to make sure the capital city was club number one. When the Commissioners arrived in Sydney, the Royal Easter Show delayed any investigation, so they went to Melbourne, the capital city of Australia in 1921. Then, Ralston went to Wellington via Sydney while Davidson recuperated in Melbourne before completing the business in Sydney. They both met up again in Auckland to finish the mission. 10. Ralston was given a week’s start to establish the Wellington club ahead of Auckland. Davidson’s main problem at this time was the fact that the eager Aucklanders were determined to charter their club in three days 35 charter members were needed but Auckland already had forty! 11. Once established, Australian and NZ Commissioners were appointed with special powers to set up the next generation of Clubs. By the time of the first Australasian 1924 Conference, with the energetic Sir George Fowlds and Charles Rhodes as Commissioners, NZ had established twice the number of clubs than Australia. The process of Clubs chartering other clubs was an innovation that took some time to become standard practice. 12. Rotary International established District 53 covering NZ, with Wellington medico Dr Will Herbert as the first District Governor. The first conference was September 1925. Charter member and District Governor Sir John Ilott, became New Zealand’s first Director of Rotary International. 13. Sir George Braddon was the first President in Sydney and was to hold the position three times. He was also the Commissioner with special powers that established additional clubs in NSW and Queensland over several years. In parallel, the first President of Melbourne, Prof Osbourne, established Clubs in Sth Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania and regional Victoria. 14. The first Australian District (No 65) was created in 1927 and the first District Governor was E Fred Birks from Sydney. By then, there were 17 clubs that were set up by the Commissioners Braddon (NSW & Qld) and Osbourne (Vic, SA, WA and Tasmania) with Canberra to follow shortly after. Sources: Rotary Global History online, RC Wellington website and Dr P Henningham’s Seventy Five Years of Rotary History.

10.01.2022 Trying to think of some COVID-19 safe ways to get involved in Hat Day this year? Here are some ideas! Register here: https://buff.ly/2AWleKO Get in touch: [email protected] #hatday #hatday20 #liftthelidonmentalillness

04.01.2022 Service has long been recognised as a fundamental feature of Rotary membership. But neither Rotary nor any of the other major service organisations have been ab...le to gain a meaningful handle on the actual scale or economic value of the volunteer effort they mobilise. Now, an international report has powerfully demonstrated the significant renewable resource of volunteering that service organisations like Rotary are generating. The recent worldwide study on the ‘The Scope and Scale of Rotary Volunteering’, conducted by the John Hopkins Centre for Civil Society Studies found that: Rotary’s 1.2 million members volunteered a total of nearly 5.8 million hours in the four-week reference period. Taking out the hours of volunteering associated with World Polio Day, which fell in the survey reference period, Rotary members accounted for close to 5.1 million hours of volunteering. Rotary annually mobilises volunteer effort equivalent to nearly 27,000 full-time paid workers. Rotary volunteers save communities an estimated US$850 million in service costs per year. Our members are responsible for 47 million hours of volunteering per year. Average volunteer hours per month varied by region, with the average hours in Australia and New Zealand being six. These statistics do not include the more than one million friends and relatives of members who frequently help out at Rotary-organised volunteering events. Nor do they include the volunteering contributed by more than 700,000 members of Rotary’s Rotaract, Interact or Community Corp affiliates. The study concludes that: ‘Rotary is annually generating a scale of social and economic problem-solving effort that is worth nearly nine times more than it costs the organisation to produce. Here is a powerful demonstration of the enormous leveraging possibilities available from mobilising the unique renewable resource represented by volunteer work.’ Check out the full story in the September edition of Rotary Down Under. In mailboxes and inboxes now! #Rotary #RotaryOpensOpportunities #DoingGood

03.01.2022 Celebrate Hat Day with Australian Rotary Health on October 10 or anytime during October. Your donation supports important youth mental health research - https://buff.ly/2AWleKO #Liftthelidonmentalillness

03.01.2022 Jerrabomberra Public School is participating in the Rotary Australia Centenary project by planting Peace Poles with the message May Peace Prevail on Earth. For ...more information on this project https://www.rotary100downunder.com/big-ideas/100-peace-poles #youth #peace #peacepoles #rotary100downunder #jerrarotary

02.01.2022 Why not reach out and invite a wide range of speakers to your online meetings, now that travel time is not an issue? Think big and invite other Clubs to join your meetings too.

01.01.2022 Only 4 weeks until World Mental Health Day! How are you celebrating Hat Day this year? Register your Hat Day event or donate to mental health research here: https://buff.ly/2AWleKO #Liftthelidonmentalillness #HatDay20

01.01.2022 October 10 is World Mental Health Day, when we celebrate our national fundraising event Hat Day. You can help us #Liftthelidonmentalillness by getting involved... this year! Register your event here: www.hatday.com.au #hatday #hatday20 #worldmentalhealthday #Mentalhealthmonth #mentalhealth #research