No matter where you are in Australia or New Zealand, block out the last weekend in March 2021 and bring your entire family to Canberra, ACT, to take part in the Centenary Walking Festival for Peace. You may even like to use the Rotary Aussie Peace Walk to garner patronage for your favourite Rotary program? […]
Every Monday at 5.30pm, members of the Rotary Club of Ahuriri, NZ, meet just across the road from Napier’s Ahuriri Estuary for their club meeting. But it is not just Rotarians who migrate for company and a meal: the Ahuriri Estuary is also home to some of the world’s most extraordinary birds. Bar-tailed godwits annually […]
Donations In Kind West Footscray, part of Rotary’s Donations In Kind Network, is a specialist operation that focuses on recycling goods, with 85 per cent of the goods processed being redeployed and 11 per cent sent to process recycling. The DIK operation saves nearly all of the goods received from being destroyed or going to […]
The RAWCS Australian Beirut Rebuilding Committee has received a recommended project from the Rotary Beirut Disaster Committee, with an assessment and sustainability report for providing medical equipment to the delivery and nursing departments of the neonatal and newborn unit at the Saint Georges Hospital University Medical Centre. This is a significant first project considering one […]
District 9940 in the south of New Zealand’s North Island jumped on board the Train Ride to End Polio Now campaign, with Rotarians from throughout the district riding on the Capital Connection, the Wairarapa Line, and the four Metlink lines in Wellington, visiting all 62 stations in the lower North Island on the way. The […]
For 2020, the Polio All Transit Districts 9910 and 9920 task force decided to up its game for World Polio Day, adding Auckland’s ferries to the previous rail itinerary. This year’s event proved bigger and bolder than ever, despite COVID-19. With Mayor of Auckland Phil Goff seeing the 50 riders off from Britomart Station, the […]
Queensland Rail was a sea of red on Friday, October 23, when 100 Rotary clubs across three Rotary districts in Southeast Queensland – Districts 9600, 9630 and 9640 – collaborated for the Train Ride to End Polio Now campaign. Kicking off in Gympie at 5.56am, hundreds of Rotarians and Rotaractors jumped on and off at […]
Seventeen-year-old Doncaster East local, Hannah Senior, and 17-year-old Caroline Springs local, Minseo Kim, are busy teens at The Mac.Robertson Girls’ High School in Victoria, but have found the time to create an inspiring program to bridge the gap between the young and young at heart through their ‘Letters Against ISO’ program. Created by Hannah and […]
Rotaractors across Australia and New Zealand were able to transition to online formats relatively easily when the first series of COVID-19 lockdowns occurred. While many clubs have been able to return to some semblance of normality, our friends in Victoria have not been able to reconnect as easily due to the second wave experienced in […]
District 9640 has set another benchmark in making Rotary membership accessible to all, with the induction of Natasha Price and Adam Sheppard to the Rotary Club of Surfers Sunrise, Qld, on November 25. Natasha and Adam are both champion wheelchair athletes. Natasha won Gold in both the Sunshine Coast Marathon and Auckland Marathon, and also […]
By Ashleigh Armstrong and Shauna LoganathanHills Rotaract Club, NSW To inspire curiosity and celebrate diversity, Hills Rotaract Club devoted November to building cultural awareness within its membership. The club’s first meeting of the month allowed members to share their own different cultural experiences. “Our members come from a diverse range of backgrounds, including South African, […]
By Matthew ChownCowra Guardian The Rotary Club of Cowra’s traditional tree planting at Europa Park in Cowra, NSW, usually carried out by the district governor, was this year carried out by a member of Cowra’s Congolese community. The community is part of the Banyamulenge, a minority group from the Tutsi tribe, who have been subjected […]