Thanks to Anne Scott for putting a place mat at each seat, with a picture of Sir John Monash alternating with a commentary on his life. Anne has access to such resources!
How nice it was to have one member (Trevor Jones) tell us all how professionally another member (Jill Weeks) was in doing her job – in this case as an interviewer for Rotary Radio. Let’s all give credit where credit is due. Well done to both Trevor, and to Jill. Maybe this bulletin should have a regular feature about Rotary Radio?
It’s great to have our hard working secretary Gordon Cheyne apparently fully recovered from two (or by some counting, three) big operations over recent months. “We luv you Gordon!” (written in a Scots accent.)
Keep the evening of Tuesday 22 March free, a bowls evening is being contemplated in lieu of the lunch meeting.
· Tasmanian youth exchange has ended because the Tasmanian end is unable to keep it going. RH Youth Committee to explore possibility of similar exchange with some other rural community.
· Agreed to proceed with inducting a new member only when their subscription invoice is paid.
The guest speaker at our last meeting was Anita George. Introduced by Meredith Hayes we learnt that Anita is a senior legal policy advisor at the McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer.
Prior to that Anita practised as a lawyer with King & Wood Mallesons, Victoria Legal Aid and the Mental Health Legal Centre and worked as a consultant with the health policy section of the OECD in Paris. She has first class honours degrees in Law and Arts (Psychology) from the University of Tasmania. She was awarded a General Sir John Monash Foundation Scholarship to complete a Masters of Public Affairs at Sciences Po Paris and also holds a diploma in Law and Strategy in humanitarian action, health, emergency and development from University Paris 8.
So what was the topic of her address? In a short 20 minutes Anita concisely and clearly wove together three fascinating topics.
First she expanded on some of the common knowledge of Sir John Monash the revered World War 1 general. In addition to his exploits in WW1 and subsequent civilian life as founding Chairman of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, early Rotarian activity in Melbourne and all round academic brilliance and achievements in Law, Engineering, Arts we got an insight to his personal drivers and values.
Anita noted four characteristics of Monash. He was an “outsider” (from Prussian Jewish parents) and always cognisant of input from other outsiders, and he valued a lifetime and lifelong goal for learning. He was a compassionate leader and cared for his men and employees, and selflessly gave his time to the community (he had no desire for political recognition rejecting repeated overtures to enter politics).
In 2002 the General Sir John Monash Foundation was established. Nowadays it receives significant corporate, government and general philanthropic funding from the public. It is a charitable organisation with a purpose to raise funds for, and to administer, Australia’s prestigious postgraduate scholarships – the John Monash Scholarships – to recognise excellence and leadership. Anita received such an award in 2012. There are no age requirements but applicants are judged on many attributes but intellect, and contribution to the community in the past and any planned future career ranks highly.
Finally Anita told of her work in the McCabe Centre. At first the audience was a bit mystified by the name McCabe Centre for Law & Cancer. It conducts research, policy development and training; develops and disseminates materials on the relationship between law and cancer control ; provides cancer control organizations and others with an interest in cancer control with a place (both real and virtual) to go for information; provides a forum for discussion and sharing of information and experiences and connects lawyers, legal academics and law students with cancer control researchers and with other disciplines. Mmmmm…
It became clearer on explanation that its current areas of focus are the key cancer prevention areas of tobacco and alcohol control and obesity prevention, access to medicines, and cancer treatment and supportive care. The classic example was the “unbranded cigarette packaging story" and despite the success in Australia the ongoing battle to duplicate that in other countries is subject to legal objections by the tobacco industry invoking areas of domestic and international law including health law, consumer protection law, constitutional law, trade law, investment law, intellectual property law, drug control law and human rights law.
Remember our lunch meeting for the Tuesday 1 March is changed to a BBQ on the 4th at the car parking nerve centre opposite Kooyong Tennis Club.
We will be seeking to fill the parking roster for the above three days.
It will be busy as "No Standing" will be signed in Glenferrie Road and Kooyong TC members will have no special privileges in the area which we will monitor.
Looking forward to filling in the names in that roster, thanks There are 39 Spots (apology to Buchan's steps) to fill, please .
Our speaker’s topic related to Sir John Monash who, of course, became truly famous in WW1. The Shadow enjoys a good bit of heckling (as opposed to a bad bit of interrupting!); and The Shadow reckons that the enquiry to Joe Devereux as to whether Joe had fought in that war fell into the ‘good heckling’ category. However, later, Joe was heard confirming that he had fought at the Battle of Waterloo; now that must surely be an exaggeration. Maybe Joe was thinking of a minor brawl at Waterloo Station sometime in his youth?
There was an auction (of sorts) whereby Phil Stewart bought the mysterious brand new Hawthorn Footy Scarf. The Shadow is not up to scratch with the mathematics of game theory and bidding; but this is how the auction seemed to work: Start at $50, and bid downwards until the bidding reaches a price that Phil considers to be fair. Seems to be a public expose of Phil’s moral-and-financial compass. Unfair, but fascinating. Thanks to Phil for adding $20 to the coffers.
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Our forefathers were dragged kicking and screaming into the automobile age (from horses).
The same applies to us and the computer age. It is here to stay.
Have you visited and updated your personnel details yet?
ELECTRONIC SCAM on ROTARY !
Its all well to promote the use of the internet media, but alas there can be scams ( see below ).
From PDG Murray Verso
A new email purporting to be from Rotary Foundation Trustee Chair Ray Klinginsmith is targeting Rotary members.
The email falsely claims that members can become End Polio Now ambassadors if they email club information to a Gmail addresswithin 48 hours. The fraudulent email has the subject line “BECOME AN END POLIO AMBASSADOR” and is sent from a fake email address of info.endpolio@gmail.com.
2016 Business Leaders Breakfast
Current ethical challenges facing Australian business Dr Simon Longstaff, AO
Executive Director, The Ethics Centre
Tuesday 23 February 2016, 7:40am to 9:00am
Level 2, RACV Club, 501 Bourke Street, Melbourne
Coordinated by Rotary Melbourne Central Sunrise
Tickets: $65 per person, includes full hot breakfast
For bookings, please visit our online booking site before Friday 19 February 2015 at:
http://www.trybooking.com/177164
I am organising a table(s) for International Women's Day Breakfast on Thursday 10th March and I would like to take advantage of the early bird price if we book by 12th February 2016 ($590 per table of 10).
Please let me know if you are interested in attending, I almost have one full table already. I will book co-ordinate the booking of the table(s) for the event.
This is a popular event with over 1200 women and men attending last year. This event is a good opportunity to invite a family member or a friend along.
If you have any questions don't hesitate to contact me.
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