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5 June, 2014

This week’s speaker:

Prof Rob Moodie Population & Global HealthRob Moodie is Professor of Public Health at the Melbourne School of Population Health. Prior to this he was the inaugural Chair of Global Health at the Nossal Institute. He first worked in refugee health care in the Sudan and later for Congress, the Aboriginal community controlled health service in Central Australia. He was the inaugural Director of Country Support for UNAIDS in Geneva from 1995-98, and was CEO of VicHealth from 1998-2007. He chaired the National Preventative Health Taskforce from 2008-2011 and was a member of the Commission on AIDS in the Pacific. He chairs the technical advisory panel of the Gates Foundation’s HIV prevention program in India. He has particular interests in non-communicable diseases and HIV/AIDS and teaches a number of courses here and in Mozambique on public health leadership and health promotion. He has co-edited and co-authored 4 books including Promoting Mental Health, Hands on Health Promotion and his latest, Recipes for a Great Life written with Gabriel Gate. Rob will speak to us about Population and Global Health.

BULLETIN

LAST MEETING: Pictured are Pres Pat Kearns with Rebecca Abley, guest speaker Ian Conway and Chairman Damien Hellard. Highlights of Ian’s story are on page 2.

Highlights of the Brighton Lunch page 8

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UPCOMING EVENTS: l ‘Mayer Page Health Walk’ - Sun 15 June p6l ‘CHANGEOVER’ - Frid 27 June - Sandy Yacht Club p4l ‘Bayside Art Show’ - Aug 20-24 - Sandy Yacht Club

Everyone joined in the final song at the Brighton Lunch last Friday.From left: One of the Sheedyettes, Kevin Sheedy, Michael Long,Cathy Freeman, Katie Bentley & Brian Ward. Photo Darren Donnellan

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Last meeting’s speaker - 29 May, 2014

Ian Conway

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History: Kings Creek Station was established in 1982 by Ian and Lyn Conway. This was originally vacant crown land with no infrastructure - no water, no electricity, no communications, no roads, no buildings. Originally the vision was to run the Station as a cattle/camel property. Since then tourism has taken precedence although Kings Creek Station still runs cattle and exports camels. Kings Creek covers an area of 1800 sq kilometres of which 110 sq K’s is Freehold, the remainder being Leasehold. Ian Conway is the grandson of William Liddle, who, in 1907, was the first permanent pastoralist in the Kings Canyon region. In 1929 Liddle took up a pastoral lease known as Angas Downs Station. Liddle’s first wife was an Arunta woman from Alice Springs. Bill and Mary had four children, the eldest being Hilda, Ian’s mother. Ian’s father, Mortimer, was also born to an Arunta Woman and a white pastoralist. Mortimer attended the first school in Alice Springs in 1914. He then went on to work for Syd Kidman for 20 odd years as a boss drover.Lyn Conway was born in Adelaide and met Ian in Alice Springs. When they first started Kings Creek Station, Lyn was more or less thrown into the deep end as there was no infrastructure. Everyday chores were very difficult especially with 2 young children. Ian Conway is a self-made man who grew up in Central Australia during the 1950s. A one-time ward of the state after his mother died, his early years were spent in bush camps outside Alice Springs. Against the odds, Ian Conway finished school and carved out a career running a big cattle station near Kings Canyon. But material success wasn’t enough, and when he saw poverty and deprivation on his own doorstep, he was determined to do something about it.

A brief account of Ian’s story. “This is a magnificent country, it’s the most beautiful scenery in Central Australia. This place is in my blood. There is absolutely no doubt about that. I love this country very much. Tourists come here and view Kings Canyon and Ayers Rock. They don’t see what is happening in the back blocks. They don’t see Ukaka for instance. Behind this curtain of beauty live traditional owners of this region who find it very difficult to live day by day. They have no future unless somebody helps them. A long time ago I made a promise to an old Aboriginal elder. I wasn’t able to keep that promise and that promise has stayed with me ever since. Kings Creek Station is about 300 kilometres as the bird flies from Alice Springs. We have something like 300,000 visitors a year coming through here. People that are just travelling through. Lyn turned up here on the 1st of January 1981, it was New Year’s Day and I remember that very clearly because somebody gave me a cheap bottle of wine and I had a very, very bad hangover on the 1st of January 1981 and I’ll never forget it. But Lyn didn’t come to this building. We only had a piece of tarpaulin between the trees behind us and that was our first place of residence. I had no idea what we were going to do with this piece of land. I was just interested in coming out here at that time. There was wild camels everywhere and at that time camels were a fad in Australia and as I’d done a fair bit of camel catching, not very experienced at that time and I thought well, this is the way to go. But as time went on we developed it into a business where we were selling camels to people all over the World. Seventy kilometres to our east is Ukaka which is an Aboriginal homeland. Ukaka is a little community which consists of about 60 people, sometimes more, sometimes less. It’s got about 20 children living there. We’ve been to Ukaka where the children have been starving and I mean starving. They’ve been malnourished - we’ve even found kids on the side of

road waiting for tourists to go by so that they can actually stop them and tell them that they’re hungry and please give us some food. And this is happening today, not 50 years ago. The education on Ukaka like most homelands is really nothing. The kids go to school for a number of years and they come out of the schools not even being able to spell their own names. My background is a mixture of Indigenous and European and I spent most of my life in and around Alice Springs as a small child. We’re actually at the old Telegraph Station which was the original Alice Springs. On this side of the river lived my ancestors from time beginning on my mother’s side and on my father’s side. My great grandfather on my father’s side was a white man and my grandfather on my mother’s side was a white man as well. I didn’t really know my mother. She was a half caste lady, as they were called in those days. Today they’re called an Aboriginal person. My extended dream I guess is to try and help the adults as well as the children. And when I say adults I mean kids from the age of 15, 16 years old to 40 years old. What we are doing is we are going to be mustering mainly camels off Tempe Downs Station which is traditionally owned by the people who live at Ukaka. This is the first time that these guys have been involved in a proper muster as such. The place is alive with feral animals. And these fellows are worried about their country. They want to get all those feral animals off their country so that they can start it from scratch and be able to have a sustainable cattle industry on Tempe Downs. And one of them said to me, “My dream is in five years we’ll be the best Aboriginal-owned cattle station in Australia.”This a small extract of Ian’s story. He is a man who cares deeply for his people and is trying to get the government to do something about the poverty and derivation. Read more on Australian Story www.abc.net.au/austory/content/2007/s2679591.htm

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At the end of his talk President Pat thanked Ian and presented him with the Club tie.

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* PP Ian Mence: Was seen by the sergeant in Brighton strolling with Peter Reith who he seemed to be mentoring with the budget in mind. He had a large bank

money bag in his hand - if it was the savings from the budget - $1 - if not $2;

* Marcus Bastiaan: Organised a function for PP Ian Mence with lots of important guests and Ian fell asleep in a corner;* Barry Hickman: Sergeant referred Barry to Pres Pat and Sec

Bill as to how Presidents and future Presidents should dress at meetings. Not in jeans Barry - “Another generation” quipped Barry. The sergeant fined him anyway;

* All Members who have not brought a guest to Rotary this year were fined $1;

* Gerhard Sommer: PP Arthur Hubbard was playing golf last Thursday and Gerhard’s phone rang. Wobbly knees Arthur missed the putt. Bill Jeans to put in;

* Bruce Crossley: Off to Alice Springs to support Melbourne FC last weekend and then doing a fishing trip in the Tiwi Islands - obviously recruiting for Melbourne;

* All Melbourne supporters: They have all had a year of reduced pain;

* George Jerzyk: Has had a pacemaker put in to slow him down;* Michael Rundle: Bought a pair of trousers from a reputable

sponsor of the Club only to find that his money has burnt a hole in it as it went straight through the money pocket. Sarg encouraged him to by his suits at Club sponsor Raoul’s;

* Max Martin: Thought the President said Rob Noodie was the speaker next week and sent the Bulletin out to 32 people. Should have been Moodie. Bulletin was recalled;

* PP Paul Nicholson: Went to Queenstown NZ to play a game of golf and it started to snow. He couldn’t find the ball;

* Graeme Wallace: Was overheard bragging about his two weeks holiday on the Gold Coast;

* Tony Rouse: Flew back specially from Bali last Thursday so he could be at the meeting;

* Damien Hellard: When up in Northern Territory he ran into Ian Conway and sat down with him and talked him into speaking at our Club. Sergeant apologised for Damien’s harrassment but was happy to see Ian at the meeting.

PP Brett Parkin with Exchange Student Vivian Yu ran the raffle last week.

The prize winners of a bottle of wine were:

1. PP Des Thomas

2. Sven Erik-Bredenberg

3. Guest of Damien Hellard

4. PP Alan Pinkus

5. George Jerzyk

6. PP Julian Goglia

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Friday27 June, 2014

FarewellPat & Lesley

The President of the Rotary Club of Brighton Inc. requests the pleasure of your company to a Dinner with Entertainment at The Sandringham Yacht Club, Jetty Rd, Sandringham

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for the Rotary Year 2014/2015and to recognise the efforts of Pat Kearns and his Board of

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PRESIDENT’S REPORT

SECRETARY’S ANNOUNCEMENTS

Presented by President Pat Kearns

• Michael Rundle - Bayside Art Show 2014 Manpower -

This year we are expecting a bigger and better Art Show thus year at our new at the new venue the Sandringham Yacht Club.

The one issue that we need to get up is the administration especially the front desk and Michael is looking for help from wives and partners who have a bit of retail experience to help man this desk during the Art Show opening times. The dates are between the 21 August and 24 August. The Art Show will be opening from 11.00am - 8.00pm Thursday - Saturday and 11.00am to 4.00pm on Sunday. Shifts will be around 3 hours. Training will be about 4 weeks out from the Art Show around mid July. Michael will circulate an email to all members shortly.

• Sec Bill Howley: Cambodian Water Project/Ronald McDonald House In the past weeks information was circulated about the Cambodian project

and a donation to Ronald McDonald House and Bill said we needed to formalise the approval from Members of these items. Barry Hickman explained about the work that was done last year in Cambodia with 6 Club Members working on a water project with 6 water tanks being installed and seed for agriculture and also fish tanks being provided. It has been enormously successful project. End of last year with 8 other Rotary Clubs we sought help from the Rotary Foundation and $120,000 was granted and we will be seeking approval of $30,000 being donated by our Club. The motion was approved as was the $6,000 for Ronald McDonald House.

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• Pres Pat welcomed Rotarians and guests.• Pat said that we had Dr Roger Dargaville the previous meeting and that he had spoken to us about ‘Reducing Emissions’. It was a great talk Pat said and it prompted many questions and it was good to have Roger with us.• Pat then pointed out two members who have had a struggle with

their health recently - Michael Rundle and George Jerzyk - and he especially welcomed them to the meeting.

• Pat then introduced his front table - Chairman Damien Hellard, special guest speaker Ian Conway, Secretary Bill Howley, guest Rebecca Abley, CEO of Conway’s Kids and Sergeant Alan Jarrott.

Pat the asked us to give Ian Conway of Kings Creek Station a big Brighton Rotary welcome.

• Pat then asked Members to introduce their guests.• Pat also gave a Club sick list report: Greg Biggin is out of hospital and making progress while resting

at home. Noel Williams is getting stronger every day after bypass surgery. Has to take it easy. He will be able to drive in about 3 weeks.

• We have had 3 expressions of interest from people who want to be become Members of our Club. Their membership has been approved by the Board and it has have been circulated to all Club Members for approval according to Club rules. Members have been given time to raise objections if they wish.

• At the end of the meeting Pat reminded us about several upcoming events. The Brighton Lunch held last Friday, The Mayer Page Health Walk on Sunday 15 June and Changeover on Friday 27 June.

Front Desk Report Thursday 29 May, 2014Attendance: 48 Percentage: 47%

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Highlights of 29 May

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Welcome to all visiting Rotarians & Guests

The Club meets Thursdays at 6pm for 6.30pm at Milanos Hotel, The Esplanade, Brighton Beach.

Rotary Grace “For good food, good fellowship and the privilege of

service, we give you thanks O Lord.”

Rotary Toast “To Australia, The Queen of Australia,

Rotary International & the Rotary Club of Brighton.”

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In the absence of Captain Ian Cole due to shoulder surgery (all Hackers send him their best for a speedy recovery) photos taken by Ron Stark will have to do instead of Ian’s witty comments. We do however know the winners on the day and they were: Bill Howley - Pregame Putting Comp, Ron Stark - Longest Drive, Ray Street - Handicap honours, Tony Morgan - Nearest the Pin & James Tisdall- Off the Stick.

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There was something slightly ‘Fawlty’ at the Brighton Lunch on Friday 30 May........ but it wasn’t the running of the Event which was done extremely well by Chairman Geoff Bentley and his hard working team who produced a wonderful, magical lunch. No, it was actually ‘Basil Fawlty’ with sidekick ‘Manuel’ who really stole the show popping up throughout the afternoon with impromptu skits even addressing the Bulletin Editor as ‘Major’ after a character in the TV series. Very funny stuff. ‘Marilyn’ was also there to remind us that ‘Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend’. There were over 300 guests who enjoyed great food supplied by the International of Brighton, Katie Bentley as MC extraordinaire, legendary Aussie singer James Reyne backed by Tracy Kingman singing a couple of his big hits and very entertaining interviews with Kevin Sheedy asking the big questions of the 3 celebrity speakers - Susan Alberti, Brian Ward and Beverley Knight. We also heard from Sonya Stephens and Cathy Freeman about the Cathy Freeman Foundation’s work with the indigenous kids of Palm Island and we were shown an inspiring video. The live auction looked to be a great success as auctioneer Peter Kakos from Marshall White plied his craft. Finally we heard from Michael Long and the ‘Sheedyettes’ prior to the Long Walk for reconciliation in the weekend’s round of AFL footy. Cathy and friends all joined in on the final number. Another successful Rotary Club of Brighton fundraising event. Well done again Geoff and Darren Donnellan for the great powerpoint presentation.

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