Rotary Club of Melbourne
www.rotaryclubofmelbourne.org.au

Meeting No 4860 in the Club’s 100^th year

8 Days left to bid for your item in our Silent Auction 

7 Days left to buy your Raffle Tickets

THIS WEEK'S MEETING

Date:  Wednesday 23 September – LUNCH MEETING

Guest Speaker: Phil Turtle, National President, Indonesia-Australia Business Council

Topic: ‘The Impact of the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement on Australian Businesses’

Unique ZOOM Meeting Registration:   https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrcumtrDwtEtVnpVTSAD5W7xsiVF1duS4z

Chairman: Richard Skinner

UPCOMING MEETINGS

30 Sep: Members' Lunch

07 Oct: Lunch Meeting - Dr Laura Hart, ARH Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, Population Mental Health Group at the University of Melbourne. Note each meeting will have a unique ZOOM Registration link.

14 Oct Evening Meeting

21 Oct Lunch Meeting - Tom Switzer, Executive Director, Centre for Independent Studies and ABC National Radio Presenter, Sydney.  Note each meeting will have a unique ZOOM Registration link.

LAST WEEK'S MEETING

Our Chair at last week's meeting online was our highly respected Bob Fels.  Bob has provided his insight into Professor Dewar's fascinating presentation.  Go online here and watch the presentation:  https://youtu.be/F10gfUUpt2U

Our thanks go to our wordsmith extraordinaire - Alan Trumble for his special promotion of our Silent Auction and Raffle.  Incidentally, Alan wrote: "No feedback from the audience is a strange feeling and my admiration of Marion and the way she copes is profound."

Thank you PP Robert Fisher for your highly appropriate Reflection which conveyed such a timely reminder to us all.

Great work by Warren Johnson as he described the successful Seniors' Lunches that he organises annually with his Rotary Melbourne team.

MEET OUR NEW MEMBER

We loved meeting Cas online last week when she was inducted into Rotary Melbourne.  We extend our hand of friendship, albeit virtually at this point in time.

CLUB EVENTS & REMINDERS

Have you placed your bids on the items (overpage) in our Rotary Melbourne SILENT AUCTION?  Check out the generous donated items.  We need your support now to raise that $25,000 target for The Smith Family Learning for Life Program's children. This is our major fundraiser for 2020! Winning bids announced at 30 September meeting online.

7 Days left for you to win First Prize: $2,000 of Bicycle and/or Accessories. If you are not into Raffles, simply Make a Donation via: https://www.trybooking.com/au/donate/learningforlife 

YOUR FAVOURITE PHOTO AS BACKGROUND

Great idea: This week, we are all invited to attend the Coffee with the President at 10.30 am online, with a background that has special meaning for us. Perhaps a photo of somewhere that is special, a country you were born in, family photo or for Elaine Saunders, her beautiful garden (below).  For those who don’t know how to put up a virtual background, don't worry, there will be some guidance.    https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3096547242

Have you registered to attend our "New & Emerging Young Leaders" event"? Four Guest speakers on Thursday, 24 September at 11.00 am - 12 pm online. Share the flyer with your friends and colleagues.  Great way to showcase what Rotary Melbourne is addressing.

There will be a Rotary Melbourne Special Screening - Homeland Story Thursday, 8 October 2020 at 7.30pm.  All funds raised going to the Donydji Community. Trybooking link is: https://www.trybooking.com/BLPVO  Flyer: RCM_Homeland_Story_Thursday_8th_October_2020.pdf

Each week we publicise the ZOOM meeting link in the Bulletin.  If by chance you cannot locate it on the day – just go to our website www.rotaryclubofmelbourne.org.au – scroll to the bottom of the page and find the event you are wanting to attend and “Click to Register”.

Headlines were made in the Katherine Times NT, 16 September, 2020 recognising the Rotary partners: Monash University, University of Melbourne, Inpex, Katherine West Health Board in ending trachoma: "The MKII Interactive Water Trailer uses play and interactive games to teach children about the importance of hygiene". Thank you to PP Peter Rogers for all your hard work.

The Brett Sutton meeting in its entirety is now on YouTube for members only. You can only find it if you have the link, which is https://youtu.be/7amTfz_CQcs

MEMBER HIGHLIGHTS

PHOTO SAYS IT ALL AT THIS TIME

"Memorial to the Brave, Bird of Beauty, Flower of Life"... Thank you to Peter Berg for this beautiful photo and caption.  Peter is a Member of the newly created Rotary Environment Sustainability Committee.

Sometimes it is good to be reminded as Rotarians that we are guided by the Four-Way Test in all things Rotary:  Of the things we think, say or do (1) Is it the TRUTH? (2) Is it FAIR to all concerned? (3) Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? (4) Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

A MIND OVER MATTER TEST

CONDOLENCES

Vale Janine Jones, wife of Peter Abotomey – our sincerest condolences to Peter.

Greg Romanes, an online funeral has now been set for 2pm Wednesday 23^rd September – straight after our weekly meeting.  To attend online

 https://tobinbrothers.com.au/tribute/details/17585/Gregory-Romanes/obituary.html#tribute-start

OTHER ROTARY NEWS

21 September is International Day of Peace.

D9800 BREAKFAST SEPTEMBER

If you would like to attend the next D9800 Zoom Breakfast, Bookings via trybooking https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=644397& 

MEMBER ANNIVERSARIES

Membership anniversaries this week Ken Badenoch, Mary Harney, Stephen Lake, John Levi, Kazuyoshi Matsunaga. 

GREETINGS

Happy birthday this week Ken Badenoch, Christina Boys, Serena Low, Carolyn Ballagh, Bernie McIntosh, Robin Syme, Phil Watson. 

LAST WEEK'S GUESTS

Guest of Club Prof. John Dewar AO (Guest Speaker)

Visiting Rotarians & Visitors Bruce Anderson, Claire Kearns, Clifford Stinson, David Silver, Deb Neal, Dianne Juracich, George Liu, Guglielmo Gottoli, Heather Ablett, Ing Kong, Irene Blackberry, Jacquie Burnheim, Jade Sleeman, Jane Kasby, Jennifer La Torre, Kim Venskunas, Kristina Huntley, Madison Hunt, Marcela Corona, Mark Smith, Meifang Gu, Mohammad Danish Haroon Khan, Nandi Lakshmanan, Nicki Green, Ian Knight, Peter Andreopoulos, Philip Clancy, Phoebe Chen, Phuc Nguyen, Rebecca Tolstoy, Richard Luke, Robert Macmahon, Robert Renshaw, Salvatore Babones, Sana Malik, Stephany Hutt, Stephen Kent, Victoria Dillon, Zoe Hodgson.

 Celebrating 100 years of service in 2021