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...
Calperum and the environment
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...
The Toy Boys
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...
Rotary unites for Ukraine
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...
Waikerie Rotary Cliff Top Walk
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...
Taking Rotary to the Outback
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...