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  • NEW MEMBERS WELCOMED

  • GUEST SPEAKER NEXT MEETING

  • MICHAEL SELECTED 'GVE' LEADER

  • SISTER CLUB SAYS THANKS

  • WORKING BEE 24th SEPT.

  • MEETING NOTES
  • GALLERY

 

NEXT MEETING - GUEST SPEAKER

ALAN OXLEY.  

"The Cost of Industry Protection"

Businesses that campaign for protectionism are self-serving. To advance their narrow commercial interests they demand bans or taxes on imports, obliging consumers to buy their own, more expensive products. This is often dressed up as a broader concern for jobs or the community.

A fundamental shift has occurred to sources of economic growth in Australia. The services sector is the leading creator of growth. It is creating more jobs than manufacturing is losing. The solution to job loss is to foster expansion of job-generating industries. The method is to increase competitiveness in the economy.
 

Alan Oxley is one of Australia's most authoritative advisers on international trade. He has an enormous depth and spread of experience, drawing on more than 25 years of practice, first in government as a successful trade negotiator and then as an influential adviser to the private sector in the core competences of ITS Global.

Alan has extensive experience advising government and the private sector on strategy and corporate affairs, managing multidisciplinary projects on trade and economic policy and delivering capacity building programs for developing countries in the Asia Pacific region.

He is Chairman of the national Australian APEC Study Centre and is the founder and Chairman of World Growth, a free market NGO based in the United States. He is also a Senior Fellow of the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE), Brussels.

 

GARDEN DESIGNFEST 2016

VOLUNTEERS ARE NOW SOUGHT - LOTS
FOR OUR MAJOR FUNDRAISER
 
This is not the type of operation that we can leave our volunteering until the 'eleventh hour'. 
 
Please contact  ROGER THORNTON  now. 
Some 'Captain' roles still available, but hurry.
 
You may have some gardening friends who might like to join you as a volunteer.  
A lovely day out  -  "Its not like work"   
 

GROUP VOCATIONAL EXCHANGE - PHILIPPINES

Marjorie Gerlinger is looking for expressions of interest for a four-week Group Vocational Exchange ['GVE'] with D3280 Philippines from mid-Feb to mid-March 2017.

OUTBOUND TEAM:

The GVE team will be comprised of an experienced Rotarian team leader and four suitably qualified team members aged between 25 and 35 years to be sourced and put forward by D9800 Clubs for final selection by District interview on September 18 2016.

The team leader will be selected by separate process and is not part of this call for applicants.

There will be deep cultural immersion in many aspects of the host country.

The theme of the exchange will be aligned with any of:

*Peace and conflict resolution

*Maternal and Child Health

*Water and Sanitation

*Basic Education and Literacy

*Economic and Community Development

*Disease Prevention and Treatment.

Click here to  download the “Team Member” GVE application form 2016-2017 

INBOUND TEAM:

D9800 will be hosting a similar inbound team concurrently from the Philippines.

We need registration by 12 September of willingness from four clubs (or Clusters)  to provide families to home-host the visiting team members for one week each over the four weeks.

Contact  Marjorie or District GVE Chair Henry Drury:  handjdrury@gmail.com

 

MEETING REPORT 16th AUGUST 2016

To read the full report, including Guest Speakers presentation please click on 'Read more' below. 
 
Chair:     Gerard Hogan.
 
Visitors:
John Hinreichs:
Christine Warren, guest of Sarah Overton & COO of Sarah’s employer Foresight Market Research, and overseas data security.
 
Announcements:
  • Frank O’Brien needs accommodation offers for two visitors for our sister club Echuca-Moama, night of 29 August.
  • Allan Driver reported on Dick Mitchell’s sad trifecta of ailments – Achilles tendon op, kidneys and shingles.
  • Roger Thornton briefed on Garden DesignFest, this year on two weekends,12-13th November and 19-20th November. Please see separate report for more details.
President Justine;
  • Spruiked a District Success Seminar 27/8 on membership, profiling and image.
  • Justine said Mary Voice’s birthday party call for gold coin donations for our Youth Projects raised $441, congrats.
 
Read more...

GALLERY

SARAH WITH HER GUEST CHRISTINE OVERTON
 
FRANK WITH A LINK TO THE OLYMPICS
 
 
KEVIN AND JUSTINE TALKING WITH GUEST SPEAKER CRAIG CUBOCZ
 

Meeting Responsibilities

11th October
 
Chair
ROLLS, Russell
 
Greeter
VOICE, Mary
 
Reporter
THOMAS, Tony
 
Photographer
THORNTON, Roger
 
Door
BAO, Ivy
 
Bulletin Editor
JONES, David
 
Project Report - Community Service
TAYLOR, Neville
 
MARKET BUMP IN
 
13th October
JONES, David
 

Upcoming Events

Board Meeting
RACV City Club
Oct 19, 2016
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
 
Garden DesignFest Melbourne
Nov 12, 2016 – Nov 13, 2016
 
Board Meeting
RACV City Club
Nov 16, 2016
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
 
Garden DesignFest Euroa
Nov 19, 2016 – Nov 20, 2016
 
Paul Harris Breakfast
RACV City Club
Nov 22, 2016
7:30 AM – 9:00 AM
 

Speakers

Oct 11, 2016
Astronomy: How to Get Started
Oct 18, 2016
The US Presidential Election
Oct 25, 2016
Five years on – the reconstruction of Christchurch
Nov 01, 2016
No regular meeting today
Nov 22, 2016
ANNUAL ROTARY FOUNDATION PAUL HARRIS BREAKFAST
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Russell Hampton
National Awards Services Inc.
Sage