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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 […]
Heather Mayne chose Youth Insearch as her DG partner’s project. Youth Insearch is one of Australia’s most successful youth intervention programs, having helped more than 32,000 young people rebuild their lives since 1985. It is a peer-to-peer program led by youth, with the support of adults and mental health professionals. “Suicide is the biggest killer […]
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 […]
Government owned and Australian Landscape Trust managed Calperum and Taylorville stations have been adopted by D9510 as the centre for their ecology and environmental projects. This massive 337,000-hectare site in the Riverland of South Australia covers an extensive mallee forest dryland area as well as River Murray floodplains. This includes lakes, creeks and wetlands that […]
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 […]
At the time of writing, it was Day 30 of Ukraine’s heroic resistance to a full-scale Russian invasion. A total of 977 civilian deaths (as of March 24), including 81 children, have been verified by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and an estimated two million people have fled […]
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 […]
If you wanted to charter a Rotary club in some remote areas of the Australian Outback, you would need to induct kangaroos and emus to make up the numbers. The sparse Outback towns don’t have enough interested people to even form a viable satellite club unless they combined with others online. One solution to bring […]