Events

M.C. Doug McLean

Trudy Poole, Past President of Rotary Peninsula 2.0 will talk about Play it Forward a joint venture between, Heartprint (based in Siem Reap), Rotary Overseas Recycled Playgrounds &  Rotary Peninsula 2.0 to deliver playgrounds from Australian communities to disadvantaged areas in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The initiative aims to give underprivileged children access to safe and imaginative spaces for play.

M.C. Katrina Flinn

Photo Courtesy: Trudy Poole

Ginny Giorgio is a retired family lawyer and former drama teacher dedicated to early intervention in domestic and family violence.

As Youth Director of Kingscliff Rotary, she founded Towards Respectful Relationships, a filmmaking program providing supportive, trauma-informed assistance to young people directly and indirectly impacted by violence.

This program is helping young people to recognise respectful relationships early — aiming for one less victim and one less perpetrator.

M.C. Dorothy Gilmour

Photo: Supplied by speaker.

Speakers are Emily Wilkinson is the founder and program manager & Voleak Pham is the Communications Co-ordinator of  ‘REACH Siem Reap.

A 'variety of programs which work to lift children and their families out of poverty are offered.

No single program alone can achieve this.

We have identified the following programs which operate simultaneously to make breaking the poverty cycle a reality:

We are passionate about keeping families together’.

M.C. Katrina Flinn

Photo Credit: Peter Borter, via Unsplash

Behind the Badge talks are not to be missed!

Come and hear Min share her insights, experiences and stories. 

M.C. Dorothy Gilmour

Photo: Jon Tyson via Unsplash

'Sue Williams bases her fourth historical novel, on her own family's legend that they are descended from Mary Ann and the Duke. In a beguiling mix of fact and fiction, she tells the rollicking story of the womanising Duke, whose appetite for women knew no bounds, the maid who was powerless to resist his charms, and her own quest to prove whether this was merely myth or a blood tie with history.

Her other historical novels, Elizabeth & Elizabeth, about Elizabeth Macquarie and Elizabeth Macarthur; That Bligh Girl, featuring Mary Bligh and her father, the notorious mutiny survivor and governor William Bligh; and The Governor, His Wife and His Mistress, about Philip Gidley King and his tangled love affairs, have all proved bestsellers.

Sue is also an award-winning journalist, travel writer and bestselling author of non-fiction. She lives in Sydney with her partner Jimmy Thomson, aka crime writer James Dunbar, and their two cats'.

(Source: Words and Photo:  Allen and Unwin)

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More to come.

M.C. Doug McLean

Ken Keech

M.C. Dorothy Gilmour

Laraine sets her Reggie da Costa Mysteries in the Melbourne of the early twentieth century, in the aftermath of the Great War and during the heady days of the 1920s, when gangs, sly-grog and gambling dens inhabited the back streets of Melbourne. 

In her talk, Laraine will discuss how she combined her love of crime fiction and history to depict historically accurate and lively settings for her Reggie da Costa Mysteries.

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Photo: Supplied by speaker

Hisham, Doherty prize winner.

M.C. Doug McLean 

Hisham, Doherty proze winner

'David is an Associate Professor and Principal research fellow at the Bionics Institute. 

He is the founding head of the Balance Disorders & Ataxia Service (BDAS) at the Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital, the Fragile X-Associated Tremor Ataxia (FXTAS) Clinic. He consults in the Monash Health Friedreich Ataxia clinic and the Machado-Joseph Disease Foundation Ataxia Clinic (Northern Territory), an honorary neurologist at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne and a lecturer at Melbourne University.

David regularly travels to remote regions in Australia to provide clinical care for first nations people with balance disorders, many of whom are much more prone to developing disorders due to genetics'.

M.C. Dorothy Gilmour

Photo Credit: Bionics Institute