Rotary Club of Melbourne
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Meeting No 5026 in the Club’s 103rd year 

Highlights in this bulletin include: 

• This Week's Evening Conversation
• Upcoming Meetings & Events
• Last Week's Meeting
• Reflection
• Member News
• Club News 
• District News
• Environmental News

This Week's Evening Conversation - 3 April 2024

Wednesday 3 April 24 5.50 for 6.00 - 7.00pm Evening Conversation: FORaMEAL packing

Venue RMIT  ROOM 3 SECOND FLOOR, Building 80 RMIT University 435-457 Swanston St, Melbourne 

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Upcoming Meetings & Events Calendar    

10 April 24 12.30 for 12.50 - 2.00pm Lunch@No35 - Dr Chantel Thornton, Specialist Breast Cancer Surgeon - Partners Day

No35 Sofitel Melbourne & by ZOOM

Register https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melb-10-april

17 April 12.30 for 12.50 - 2.00pm Lunch@No35 - Tony Pearce

Inspector-General for Emergency Management Department of Justice & Regulation, Director - Board Chair ESF

Bookings & Information: https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melb-17-april

Wednesday 24 April 24 12.30 for 12.50 - 2.00pm Thomas Baker Oration 2024 Dr Doug Hilton AO, CSIRO  

Level 1, Sofitel Melbourne 

Register: https://events.humanitix.com/rotarythomasbakeroration24

Last Week's Meeting

At the Rotary Melbourne meeting on Wednesday 27 March 24 Clementine Lucas, Head of Philanthropy at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Australia spoke on the topic ‘Growing Philanthropy in Australia – Why a culture of giving matters’.   

Member News 

At the Rotary Melbourne meeting on 27 March 24 we witnessed the presentation of a Paul Harris Fellow Award to Bill Pickett.      

Some 12 years ago Katie Stjernholm, an Ambassadorial Scholar was coming to do her Masters at Melb Uni and Past President Phil Endersbee was asked to be her mentor.       

Club News    

In 2017, Rotary Melbourne signed an MOU with the Minister for Education in Timor Leste for the publication and shipment of a series of books written by Kirsty Sword Gusmao, Timor’s first lady to enhance the opportunities for school children in Timor to have access to publications in Tetun and Portuguese for reading. Several books were written, published, and sent to Timor via Donations In Kind (DIK).

A powerful SBS podcast by Tarang Chawla: 'From grief to activism', on domestic violence that illustrates the importance of the Rotary SAFE Families information program. Please note some people may find the language offensive. Click HERE to view the video.      

District News 

ROMAC provides surgical treatment for children in Australia and New Zealand from developing countries from our Pacific Region in the form of Life Giving and/or dignity restoring surgery not accessible to them in their home country.

If you would like to read the latest ROMAC Chairman's Message and articles on successful medical cases for March 2024 please click on this link

Environmental News 

This month the Environmental Sustainability Rotarian Action Group (ESRAG) newsletter ESRAG April 2024 Volume 8 Issue 10 features an article titled 'Rotary responds to the health harms of climate change'.

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Member Anniversaries: Tony Battaini (1), Bev Brock (18), Joseph Ebbage (9), Ted Garland (41), Christine Johnson (22), David Kram (18), David Nurse (49).

   Member Birthdays this week: Kelton Dennis, Clive Hollands, Peter Hollingworth.

Visitors & Guests at Meeting 27 March 24 

Guests of Club Clementine Lucas (Speaker), Bill & Victoria Pickett, Tenille Gilbert.

Visiting Rotarians Michael Lapina, Aviv & Jessica Palti, Maria Hicks (Passport Melbourne).

Guests of Members John Toumbourou, Barbara Minuzzo, and Jennifer Nazareth (Bill Pickett), Antwan Malouhi, Nushan Anguru, Kenza Dairi (Bernie McIntosh), Lily Shae, Andrew Durakovic, Margaux Dalbis, Darren Harris, Steve Debono (Chad Brendish & Arjang Taylor).

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