Over the past 40 years, Rotary and Interplast have made a significant contribution to improving the health and wellbeing of people in need in the Asia-Pacific region, and have set an inspiring example of what can be achieved through effective collaboration and partnership. In the early 1980s, Dr Gerald Duff,...
Youth Exchange 50th Anniversary
Fifty years ago, Kaye Green arrived back home in Tasmania, after a year in Osaka, Japan, as a Rotary exchange student. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of that extraordinary year, Kaye decided to create 50 bonsai artworks. “This ‘bonsai pilgrimage’ gave me the opportunity for a deep, reflective and meditative...
Homeless Photographic Exhibition at Federal Parliament
When photographer Phil England created the photographic portraits of homeless people that featured in a humanitarian exhibition of hope, he stated, “Don’t walk past them, look into their eyes and you will see through the stigma. Everyone has a story, including a homeless person.” On International Women’s Day this year,...
Books and Bandicoot Burrows
When considering ideas for the Rotary Club of Tamar Sunrise’s Rotary Expo display, the small committee challenged members to come up with some unique ideas to showcase the club and its projects. From an initial idea to feature the club’s Books for Kinder Program by displaying children’s books and performing...
Ocean adventures for youth
Jervis Bay Marine Park on the South Coast of NSW covers 215 square kilometres and contains over 100 kilometres of coastline. The park’s spectacular 100-meter cliffs and waterfalls provided the backdrop for the Rotary Club of Nowra’s recent youth program fundraiser. Sightseeing, snorkelling and scuba diving tours around the bay...
Seeing things through Indigenous eyes
In 2022, the Rotary Club of Moonah decided it was time we corrected our own ignorance about the colonisation of Australia and the impact this had and still has on Aboriginal people. Members decided to host a NAIDOC week event to show their respect for and support of the Tasmanian...