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...
Reduce. Reuse. Repurpose.
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...
Queensland jumps on board the End Polio Now train
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...
Rotaract in Lockdown
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...
Vincent goes home
By Lucy BladenThe Canberra Times Vincent Toto has a smile that could brighten up any room. But the toddler from the Solomon Islands hasn’t had an easy start to life. He was born with a gap between his stomach and oesophagus, which meant no food was able to get through....
Diversity: Part of Rotary’s core values
By Dave KingRotary Great Britain and Ireland When incoming Rotary International President, Holger Knaack, addressed the International Assembly in San Diego, California, earlier this year, few would have realised how prophetic those words would become three months later. On May 25, 46-year-old black American, George Floyd, was killed 2400 kilometres...