Early bird tickets are now available for all Rotaractors and Rotarians in Australia, New Zealand and across the Pacific to attend the Zone 8 Better Together Conference in Canberra, ACT, from October 28-30. The conference is set to be the first in-person zone event since the COVID-19 pandemic and is shaping up to be a […]
Rotary SAFE Families has had its Guide for Prevention of Abuse in Australia translated into five languages to inform our non-English speaking communities on the prevention of family abuse. Rotary SAFE Families has continued to work hard with its commitment to engage Rotarians and the Australian public to become responsible and informed in how to […]
By Nicole ShanksPublic Relations Director, Rotary Club of Dubbo West The Rotary Club of Dubbo West became involved with the Western Cancer Centre in 2015, when doctors Florian Honeyball and Colin McClintock came to their meeting as guest speakers to discuss the need for a positron emission tomography (PET-CT) scanner in Dubbo. This piece of […]
By the Rotary Club of Dubbo For the past two years, the Rotary Club of Dubbo has hosted Santa photos with a difference. Drawing on what had been an unusual and often unsettling time for people, the club came up with Santa Paws – photos of pets with Santa. With pets often being the only […]
The National Cartoon Gallery is Australia’s only dedicated cartoon gallery, exhibiting the largest private collection of contemporary cartoons in the Southern Hemisphere. It is organised by the Rotary Club of Coffs Harbour City. The original gallery is housed in an underground WWII bunker that has been converted into a funky exhibition space. The creation of […]
Tasmanian Rotarians Phil and Joyce Ogden mount their tandem bicycle to stage an epic fundraiser in support of Rotary’s End Polio Now campaign. PDG Bob AitkenRI End Polio Now Coordinator, Zone 8, 2018-22Rotary Club of Lower Blue Mountains, NSW With 30 years of tandem cycling behind them, the duo will leave Perth, WA, on May […]
The Northwest Regional Careers Expo is coordinated each year by the Rotary Club of Tamworth First Light. The expo helps the region’s students navigate the extensive career pathways available to them. With over 70 exhibitors, the expo is the largest in the region. Exhibitors range from local businesses, leading universities and colleges, registered training organisations, […]
It took two years for COVID-19 to reach American Samoa, but since breaching its shores earlier this year, it has sent the island nation into lockdown, with limited business territory-wide. Thousands of residents now face reduced work hours or have been laid off completely. Among those most affected are low-income homes and ‘non-essential’ workers, who […]
The Burindi Campdraft has been operating for 27 years and is the major fundraising project of the Rotary Club of Barraba; a small, dedicated club in the New England region of Northern New South Wales. It is the hometown of INXS founding band member and singer/songwriter Andrew Farriss, and country singer and harpsichord maker Bill […]
A collaboration between three Rotaract MDIOs across the globe is raising awareness of Rotary’s newest area of focus – protecting the environment. By Jack CampbellRDU Journalism Intern During the devastating 2021 wildfires that burned across the Mediterranean, three Rotaract Multi District Information Organisations (MDIOs) – Rotaract Oceania, Rotaract Mediterranean and Rotaract Europe – came together […]
You don’t have to be big to be successful. One of our smallest Rotary clubs in District 9510, the Rotary Club of Charles Sturt Grange, has a long running program where club members and volunteers, 16 in all, meet weekly to make high quality wooden toys. They achieve a massive total of 600 toys built […]
When a club wins a $356,000 grant from the Murray Darling Basin Authority to repair, replace and refurbish its Cliff Top Walk, it knows it has long-term credibility for doing good in its community. The Cliff Top Walk project was started in 1988 by the Rotary Club of Waikerie and was completed as a Waikerie […]