DRAFT CONFERENCE PROGRAM 7/12/13
Friday, 11th April 2014– Day
Registration – 1.00pm onwards
10am
Bowls (Steve Dick) and Golf (Harvey Lovelock)Tournaments
Bike ride (Trevor Butler)
12.00pm
College of Governors’ Lunch
Bordertown Hotel
1.00
College of Governors’ Meeting
Bordertown Hotel
3.00 – 4.00 pm pm “Welcome to Rotary District Conference 2014” Banner held by
Rotarians lead Naracoorte Pipe Band , Horse Riders and Bordertown Vehicle
Restorers Club Members in Vehicles. Walk up main street from Police Station to
Bordertown Oval and then back to stop riders outside Civic Centre. Rotarians
welcomed in main street outside civic centre by Mayor Richard Vickery.
5.00 – 6.00 pm Civic Reception for Invited Guests
Host: Mayor of Tatiara District Council Richard Vickery
Friday, 11th April 2014– Evening
6.00 pm Wine and Cheese Tasting Wirrega and Melino Vineyards
First plenary session
7.00 pm
Welcome by MC Alan Richardson
Arrival of Official Party
Youth Exchange students take their country flags onto stage
National Anthem
Welcome to Country
Welcome to Bordertown – Mayor of Tatiara` District Council,
Cr. Richard Vickery
Welcome to Conference – DG Ken McInerney (5 minutes)
Opening remarks - RI President’s Representative: PDG Ken Linkhorn District
9910 Governor 2004-2005 New Zealand
When Ken Linkhorn saw India's victims of polio he realised how lucky he was to
survive his own bout with the crippling disease. The Takapuna Rotarian had polio
when he was just five. He was in Auckland Hospital for five months.
Ken was chosen to be one of 30 New Zealand Rotary members to travel to India to
help vaccinate children in an anti-polio campaign in January 2011.
India has just marked a year of no reported cases of polio. The country's last
reported case was a two-year-old girl in West Bengal state on January 13, 2011.
Forty-two cases were recorded in 2010.
India is one of four countries worldwide where polio is considered to be endemic.
The other countries are Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan. To be considered polio
free a country has to have no reported cases for three years.
Ken is grateful he had no lasting effects from polio when he visited patients in
hospital in India.
"I saw the scars of polio. People on crutches who had limbs affected. I realised
how close I was to being like them," he says.
Ken remembers he was not the best of patients.
"They used to strap me to the bed so I didn't get up to mischievous," he says.
7.40 pm
Keynote Speaker: Steven Dunn,
Dynamiq
In 2006 Steven started Dynamiq with his business partner who he had worked
with in the army. They started the company with no funding, no clients and a plan
drawn up on the back of a napkin. Their goal was to fill an observed gap in the
security market in Australia. However, overtime the company increased its scope
of service whereby they are now a fully integrated emergency management
company currently employing over 190 staff, across 3 continents, with an annual
turn over of $25 million. A trusted emergency management company with global
reach.our cores services include security and risk consulting; project staffing of
medics, security officer and fire fighters; and 24/7 emergency assistance to over
300,000 corporate travellers globally.
8.10pm
Keynote Speaker: Local Identity Shannon Warnest
World Champion Shearer Shannon Warnest talks on his experience and training to
achieve this unique title. Demonstrates his technique on stage with Rotarian
Richard Halliday blade shearing.
World Champion 2000 Bloemfontein South Africa (Age 25)
World Champion 2005 Toowoomba Australia
National Sports Shear Australian Champion 1999,2003-2008
Has been a part of the Australian team in 2000,2002-2013
Patron for “make a wish”
1996 ABC Radio Sports Achiever
2000 Young Australian of the Year finalist, for outstanding achievement
2002 Order of Australia, for services to the industry.
2006 SA Great Regional Sports Award
8.25
Drinks and finger food
8.45
Entertainment: Shamrock “ Irish Pub”. (David and Rose Milton)
Saturday, 12 April 2014 – Day
7.30am
Presidents, AGs and Partners Breakfast with RI President’s Representative: PDG
Kenneth Littlehorn & DG Ken McInerney - Bordertown Hotel (Ken)
President Elects and Partners Breakfast with DGE Jeoff James – Woolshed Inn
Hotel (Ken)
Breakfast (Remainder make own arrangements)
Registration – 7.45 am onwards
Second plenary session
8.45 am
Singalong andWarm up – David Milton, Natalie Klitcher, Tracey
Grosser
9.00 am
Welcome – DG Ken McInerney
9.15 am
RI President’s Representative: PDG Ken Linkhorn
Rotary District 9910 New Zealand
9.45 am
(International Services )
RYLA Chairman PP Barry Clark Mt Gambier West to introduce
Keynote speaker – Mieka Main (nee van Rijn)
Meika works as an Occupational Therapist specialising in the area of Mental
Health. She has a passion for improving the outcomes for children and families
who have experienced trauma. Since graduating with honours in 2011, Mieka has
completed further study in the area of Infant Mental Health. Mieka was sponsored
by the Rotary Club of Naracoorte to attend RYLA in 2010, and was later a member
of the RYLA leadership team in 2013. She was an active member of the Rotary
Club of Adelaide EDGE from 2010-12.
10.05 am
MC Alan Richardson interviews panel of Meika, Kaitlyn Opie
(Naracoorte/Horsham), Lucy Dodd, Louisa Maney (short term
exchange student to NZ) Overseas male student.
10.30 am
Morning Tea
Third plenary session
11.00 am
PP Julie Burdett, Rotary Club of Naracoorte introduces
Keynote Speaker Lieutenant Governor of SA Mr Hieu Van Le AO
Chairman of the South Australian Multicultural and Ethnic
Affairs Commission
Hieu and his wife Lan arrived in Darwin Harbour in 1977. They were some of the
first “boat people” to flee Vietnam for Australia following the fall of South
Vietnam.
Hieu had just spent months at sea as the navigator, by default, of a small, flimsy,
leaking fishing boat with 41 fellow refugees on board. Barely 23 years old, he had
already experienced the horrors of war, the constant fear of persecution and the
hopelessness of refugee camps.
Hieu settled in Adelaide where he returned to university to regain his qualifications
in economics and accountancy. He went on to finish a Masters in Business
Administration, also at the University of Adelaide.
He has worked as a senior manager with the Australian Securities and Investments
Commission (ASIC) and in 1996 received an Australia Day Medal for outstanding
service to ASIC. He also was awarded a Centenary of Federation medal in 2001 for
his contribution to the advancement of multiculturalism in Australia.
On Australia Day, 2010, Mr Le was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia
(A.O.), for his service to the community in South Australia. Hieu was awarded
Honorary Doctorates by both the Adelaide University and Flinders University in
2008 and 2011 respectively.
Hieu has been Chairman of the South Australian Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs
Commission since January 2007. Later that year, he was appointed Lieutenant
Governor of South Australia. He is the first person of Asian background to have
been appointed to these positions in South Australia.
11.30 am
MC Alan Richardson to interview
Lieutenant Governor of SA Mr Hieu Van Le AO , plus two refugees
of recent times
12.00 pm Youth Exchange Students are taken by bus for Adventure Caving in
World Heritage Naracoorte Caves.
12.00 pm
DG Ken McInerney introduces
Keynote speaker PDG Jessie Harman to speak on
'Strengthening Rotary: Great stories of success'
Jessie has been a Rotarian for the past fourteen years, a member of the Rotary Club
of Wendouree Breakfast in Ballarat, Victoria.
She has been active at both club and District levels, having held many different
roles, including a term as Governor for District 9780 in 2010-2011. Nationally,
Jessie is an incoming Rotary Co-ordinator for Zone 7B and 8 (part of), a member
of Zone 7B and 8 Membership Committee, and a member of the National Training
Team.
Jessie’s first experience of Rotary was as a participant of RYLA in 1987, and she
maintains an active interest in Rotary’s Youth and leadership programs to this day.
She also has a keen interest in membership development, and is co-author of ‘101
strategies for recruiting and retaining members’. She and her husband Andrew are
major donors to The Rotary Foundation.
In her working life, Jessie is Director of Commercial Services at the University of
Ballarat. In addition to her work with Rotary, Jessie is secretary of the Ballarat
Symphony Orchestra and a Trustee of several community –based Foundations.
12.30 pm
Lunch:
Fourth plenary session – Break-out Sessions
1.30 pm
“Engage Rotary – Change Lives” Sessions concurrent in
Main Hall and Little Theatre
Main Hall
1.30 pm
“The World Around Us” Vocational service committee Chairman
AG PDG Ron Pickford addresses tasks of his committee and introduces next
speaker Ali Douglas
1.40- 2.10pm
Alastair Douglas – Australian Foundation for Fostering
Learning in the Philippines (AFFLIP)
Ali Douglas was the co-founder of AFFLIP and is currently its Deputy
Chairperson. The organisation is a voluntary, non-government, not-for-profit
Foundation based in South Australia which seeks to make a contribution to the
educational development of young people living in some of the poorest areas of the
Philippines. At present its work is located in Mindanao in the Southern Philippines.
Ali is an education consultant with international work experience including
Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Gabon, United Arab
Emirates and Saudi Arabia. His work has involved consultancies for AusAID in
the Philippines between 2003 and 2010 in the area of systems reform related to the
Millennium Development Goals, school management, teacher training and
educational leadership. He has also held consultancies in the UAE, Vietnam and
Gabon to establish new international schools.
He was originally a teacher in DECS in SA and left the department in 1998 as the
Principal of Bordertown High School.
Ali was a member of the Rotary Group Study Exchange Team to Finland in 1984
and was awarded life membership of Apex through the Maitland Club in 1989.
2.15 pm
.
Public Relations Committee Chairman Rtn Pauline Stewart
Highton to speak on Rotary Public relations and introduce Michael Angelakis
Michael Angelakis: King of the Ocean
The Angelakis family are synonymous with seafood in South Australia. Managing
Director, Michael Angelakis, shares his experience of leading a third generation
family business.
Angelakis Bros. Seafood Poultry & Game - A Central Market Tradition: In
the Adelaide City region of South Australia
There is something truly inspiring about family businesses. Traditions, values,
work ethics, precious memories and our rich cultural heritage. At Angelakis Bros.
we are proud of our humble beginnings and our success as South Australia's largest
and most respected family-operated seafood and poultry company with national
and international markets.
In the 1920's Michael George Angelakis farewelled his Greek island home of Symi
in the Aegean, famous for its sponge divers, and opened his arms to Australia as a
migrant. The fish industry has always been in our blood.
In a borrowed dinghy fishing the waters in the Great Australian Bight off
Thevenard, he began what grew into a leading Australian enterprise. Sons George,
Nick and their brother-in-law Sam Sperou embraced the opportunity to establish
Angelakis Bros. as a formal entity. Today, the third generation - Michael G
Angelakis, Tom and Michael N Angelakis, Peter and Michael Sperou, possess
ownership and day to day management of the business.
Our history of commitment to all aspects of the seafood industry (processing,
marketing, wholesale and retail) and reputation for quality, consistency and
innovation has been developed for over 70 years. Today, Angelakis Bros. is a
diversified family business employing the latest technology and over 140 people.
Whilst seafood is the core of our business, we also have a reputation for Poultry
and Game products. Angelakis Bros.' new processing facility in Adelaide is
designed and operated on a single principle - 'To ensure that the products are as
fresh and full of natural flavours as they can possibly be'. We constantly set out to
exceed the most stern standards and quality approval under the HACCP-based
Quality Assurance Program.
Angelakis Bros. is dedicated to bringing the finest seafood, poultry and game to
your table and we are always happy to offer tips and pass on our traditional family
recipes. Every week we feature a different seafood and poultry recipe, as well as
the Out of the Blue Recipe of the Month. You can also pick up your copy of the
latest Out of the Blue cookbook there, in fact a 'One Stop Shop' for all your needs.
Michael currently combines his role as Managing Director of seafood business
Angelakis Brothers with a hugely successful television career as co-host on
Channel 9’s Out of t he Blue.
Michael Angelakis was always destined to work closely with the ocean. Growing
up he wanted to be a marine biologist but this soon led to a passion for the seafood
industry.
Michael received an Order of Australia for his work in the fish industry and is a
cancer survivor. He now wakes up with an attitude and energy to enjoy the best
days of his life.
Michael’s presentation with anecdotes on his life will include demonstrating
cooking his favourite dishes and delegates will be able to sample them.
2.25-3.00 pm
Michael Angelakis
3.00 – 3.40 pm
Michael Angelakis
Little Theatre
1.30 pm
“The Next Generation” AG Sue Williams or Chair Graeme Cox
Youth Exchange Committee addresses tasks of his/her committee and introduces
next speaker Melany Stainmesse, France
1.40 – 2.10 pm
Melany Stainmesse France Segolene Rolin’s Cousin
Studying Agriculture in France. Spent several months looking after elephants in
Nicaragua Community Service program, regularly in contact with Rotary Club in
France. At Warrensville from Feb to June 2014 for work experience.
2.15 pm
“Sustainable Environment” PPE-Water and Environemt and
Heritage Sub Committee Chairman PP Lidia Aitken Ballarat West Talk
about Rotaries Activities in this regard and introduce next speaker, Steve
Bourne
2.25 – 2.55pm Steve Bourne Director Planning Environment and
Community Development, Naracoorte Lucindale Council ,Former Manager Caves
National Park World Heritage Naracoorte Caves,-Water and the Environment
3.00 pm
“Looking to the Future”
Rotary Grants Sub Committee
Chairman Jerry Leech Mt Gambier Lakes to talk a little about District grants
and then introduce Tony Gregson.
3.10- 3.40 pm
Tony Gregson: Food Security
Tony is a Rotarian and farmer from Warracknabeal and was pivotal in Australia’s
first deposit of seeds to an over-seas vault. This was instigated when he was invited
to ‘Come and visit the Global Seed Vault, Oh and by the way, bring some
Australian seeds with you’. Tony travelled to Svalbard which is only 1000Km from
the North Pole. The ‘Doomsday Vault’ was built in 2007 and is in the side of a
mountain and capable of holding 4.5 million samples at a constant temperature of –
18C. Many of the back-up seed storages have been lost in recent years with wars in
Iraq, Syria & Afghanistan. Victoria’s storage is at Horsham with a new building
currently under construction. Seed storage is essential for the protection of world
crop production with the diverse genetic pool being available for breeding to
overcome plant disease etc.
3.40 pm
Close of day.
Optional Excursions:
Tours to Glenda Rowett’s Art Gallery
Rose Milton Tour of Artworks in Bordertown
Clayton Farm
Saturday, 12 April 2014 - Evening
6.30
pm
7.15
Drinks Bordertown racecourse (cash bar)
MC Alan Gay
Conference Dinner, presented by Rotary Club of Bordertown at the
Bordertown Racecourse
Three course dinner prepared by the Barn Palais
Band: Cindy Cross and ‘The Mechanics” Apsley
Sunday, 13 April 2014
Fifth plenary session
8.45am
Singalong andWarm up – David Milton, Natalie Klitcher, Tracey
Grosser
9.00
Announcements
9.05
The Rotary Foundation Round-up
PDG Brian Trenery Chairman D9780 The Rotary Foundation.
Presentation of TRF awards PDG Ted Gafney
9.20
Andrew Pipcorn, President Ballarat South to introduce Paul M??
9.25-9.55 am
Paul M Rotary mentoring police program
9.55am
Club Projects Round-Up MC Alan Richardson to interview
some of Rotarians involved in projects within the District about the
very short Power-point presentations
10.30
Morning Tea
11.00 am to 12.30pm Youth exchange students have tour of Art Gallery and
Exhibition with Curator Talk
Sixth plenary session
11.00 am
PP Trevor Butler introduce Keynote Speaker Sam Leach
11.05 am
Sam Leach: 2010 Archibald Winner
Sam Leach (born 1973) is an emerging Australian contemporary artist. He was
born in Adelaide, South Australia. His family came to Bordertown in 1872 and
took up land in the vicinity. After studying in Adelaide gained employment in
Adelaide. Leach worked for many years in the Australian Tax Office after
completion of a degree in Economics. He also completed a Diploma of Art,
Bachelor of Fine Art degree and a Master of Fine Art degree at RMIT in
Melbourne, Victoria. Leach currently resides in Melbourne.
Leach's work has been exhibited in several museum shows including "Optimism"
at the Queensland Art Gallery \ and "Neo Goth" at the University of Queensland
Art Museum in 2008, in 2009 "the Shilo Project" at the Ian Potter Museum of Art
and "Horror Come Darkness" at the Macquarie University Art Gallery and "Still"
at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery in 2010. His work is held in public collections of
regional galleries of Geelong, Gold Coast, Coffs Harbour, Newcastle and
Gippsland and the collections of Latrobe University and the University of
Queensland.
His portrait of musical comedian Tim Minchin won the Archibald Prize, one of
Australia's most noteworthy art prizes, in 2010. In the same year, he won the
Wynne Prize for his landscape Proposal for landscaped cosmos In doing so he
became only the third artist after William Dobell and Brett Whitely to win the
Archibald portrait prize and the Wynne landscape prize in the same year. The
award has generated some controversy due to the similarities, acknowledged by
Leach, between his work and one by seventeenth-century Dutch artist Adam
Pynacker.
11.45 am
DGE Geoff James Address
Conference 2015
PDG Cathy Roth Sydney Convention 2014
12.20 pm
Rotary Awards AG Libby Furner
Rotary Legislation PDG Chris Sims
Closing Remarks – RI President’s Representative, PDG Ken
Linkhorn Rotary District 9910 New Zealand
Closing Remarks – DG Ken McInerney
Close of Conference
1.10 pm
Lunch