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20th August 2019

  • Next Meeting - Guest Speaker

  • Love Thy Neighbour

  • Sausage Sizzling Returns

  • Meeting Minutes 13th August

  • Gallery

NEXT MEETING - GUEST SPEAKER

Mr Anthony Wall, Operations Manager Policy, Safety and Quality

Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists

 

Building specialist anaesthesia and pain medicine capability in PNG

  • A joint venture between Rotary Central Melbourne and ANZCA

 

Anthony has worked for 25 years in marketing, policy and research roles within the Australian healthcare system. With tertiary qualifications in psychology and postgraduate studies in project design, evaluation and statistics, Anthony commenced his career in private sector healthcare consulting firms and for the past decade has worked in government agencies and public sector organisations including Rural Health Workforce Australia and the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services. 
With a particular interest in global, rural and Indigenous health issues, Anthony has served as chief investigator on numerous studies examining health workforce maldistribution including a federally-funded national study into the retention of allied health professionals in rural and remote Australia. Anthony has published more than a dozen conference papers on rural health workforce issues. In his role at ANZCA Anthony works closely with the college’s Overseas Aid Committee and is a member of the joint ANZCA and World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists Essential Pain Management steering committee.
 

 

LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR

Suvam Ganguli is organising a social dinner on Saturday 10th August 2019 to kick start the social calendar for the Rotary year 2019-20. 

Variouis dinners were held around Melbounre on the 10th.  All those that could make it had a great night see the photo's in the Gallery.

Thanks to Suvam and the champions for making it a great night.

 

 

SAUSAGE SIZZLING RETURNS

A new Rotary year and suddenly the first Bunnings sausage sizzle at Port Melbourne was successfully completed on Friday 12th July.

If you are able to help on any of the future dates listed below, could you please email me at peter.duras@bigpond.com indicating your preference for morning, lunchtime or afternoon?  We'll run from shortly after 8am to 4.

Remaining dates for Port Melbourne this calendar year are:

Friday 30th August

Friday 1st November

Friday 15th November

Sunday 22nd December

MEETING MINUTES 13TH AUGUST

Rotary Central Melbourne
Meeting Summary 13 August 2019
 
Notices
 
  • Sick members
    • Neale is recovering from home
    • Lampu is coming back soon
 
  • Future Club Trip
    • Roy spoke of a planned trip to Sri Lanka in April 2020 at a proposed cost of around $8 k pp
 
  • Love Thy Neighbour
    • Gerard thanked all the dinner convenors for their assistance in arranging the Club dinners last week which were a great success.
 
  • Community Emergency Service Awards
    • Stuart E advised the Club he had attended the NSW Rotary Community Awards for Emergency Service personnel and this was planned to be replicated nationally, including Victoria in 2020.
 
  • Bottles for Raffle
    • Members were reminded to bring bottles to the breakfast meetings for raffle prizes
 
  • President Warwick
    • Advised of another international trip planned in February 2020 with the Rotary Club of Delhi and District 3011 to support a water conservation project.
 
Speaker – TLC for Kids
Our speakers at the 13 August meeting were Michael Luddeni and Niear (sp) talking about TLC for kids which with eight staff in Melbourne services hospitals across Australia with local referrals from health care professionals.  TLC for Kids have been working behind the scenes since 1998 to provide practical, emotional and distractional support to sick children and their families. This is about to include an Ambulance in Victoria, delivering special moments to children in palliative care by transporting them to wherever they wish for the day.
 
Michael emphasised the very inclusive approach to all that seek TLC for Kids assistance, which generally comes in the form of ‘Distraction Boxes’ and practical support through ‘Rapid TLC’.  There are a recorded 998,000pa with repeated use of these services. The cost per impact is $1,38.
 
 
GALLERY 

Breakfast Meeting Photos

Presedent Warwick Cavell

 Roy Garrett

Guest speakers Mia Vassallo & Michel Luddeni 

(below) North Dinner

 

 

East Suburbs Dinner

 

SE Bayside Dinner

City Group Dinner

Meeting Responsibilities

Chair
ROLLS, Russell
 
Greeter
CALLANDER, Tom
 
Reporter
THOMAS, Tony
 
Photographer
THORNTON, Roger
 
Door
GREENWOOD, Herb
 
Bulletin Editor
CLIFT, Nick
 
Social Media
LIM, Daniel
 

Upcoming Events

TBC - Family activity
Aug 25, 2019 12:00 PM
 
BBQ – Port Melbourne
Aug 30, 2019 8:30 AM
 
Tree Planting Benalla- 31 August/1 September, plus Bushdance on Saturday evening
Aug 31, 2019 - Sep 01, 2019
 
National Gallery of Victoria – Friday night visit optional dinner afterwards.A FAIRY TALE IN RED TIMES WORKS FROM THE WHITE RABBIT COLLECTION
Sep 06, 2019 5:30 PM
 
Board meeting – zoom
Sep 11, 2019 7:30 PM
 
School Holidays
Sep 20, 2019 - Oct 06, 2019
 
TBC- lift the lid– Community services
Oct 01, 2019
 
TBC Club Film night –
Oct 05, 2019 7:00 PM
 
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Speakers

Aug 20, 2019
Operations Manager Policy, Safety and Quality Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists
Aug 27, 2019
What are we up to?
Sep 24, 2019
Protecting at-risk children through the Safe & Together™ Model
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