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Club Fellowship

Club Fellowship

Michael Williams—Experiences at National Youth Science Forum

Michael is a Year 12 student at Penleigh & Essendon Grammar who was sponsored to attend the NYSF in Canberra by Rotary Club of Carlton.

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Beryl Jones

Beryl Jones

Creating a Brighter Future.

Beryl Jones visited the Cub and introduced Rhiannon a student who has benefited from the work of The Smith family. Beryl has been a tireless volunteer for many years and we saw their work first hand. 

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Rob Newton-- The Elizabeth Blackburn School of Sciences

Rob Newton is the principal of University High School. He spoke the history and contribution of University High School, the rationale for establishing the Elizabeth Blackburn School of Sciences as a sub-school of University High, and the type of education it provides. 

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Warwick Mihaly-- Why engage an architect?

Warwick Mihaly is the Principal Architect with the firm Mihaly Slocombe. He also teaches design and construction, and writes a blog under the name Panfilocastraldi. He spoke about the 10 reasons one should use an architect on construction projects.

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Club Fellowship

Club Fellowship 19th January 2016

Michael Wiliams

My NYSF Experience

James Herringer - RMIT and Airbus Fly Your Ideas Competition

James inroduced his team of undergraduate and postgraduate students at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) who are exploring the feasibility of replacing conventional jet fuel with liquid methane for commercial aircraft. Supported by academics within RMIT University, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (SAMME), the project was selected for further development in the 2013 Airbus “Fly Your Ideas” Competition.

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Peter Spence

Peter Spence;

Victorian Taxi Services Commission Fraud Investigator;

In his role he investigates alleged assaults committed by taxi drivers and other negligent behaviour.

He briefly discussed the car share model Uber. He state that it is illegal and unlicensed at the moment in Victoria but State Government is still to decide whether to change that status.

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Kate Goodridge Griffith

Kate Goodridge Griffith is currently an Honours student at the University of Melbourne studying how to bridge to gap between perception and reality of Islam in the western world. The RC of Carlton supported Kate to attend the National Youth Conference of Australia: www.ylaleaders.org.au/2015-nyc.html held in Canberra 14-18 April 2015.

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Prof David Bowtell—Cracking the cancer code

David Bowtell is head of the Cancer Genetics and Genomics Laboratory at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. He spoke about central concepts in the genetics of cancer and about exciting developments in treatment.




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Denis Baguley - Preparing the Shine for the Centenary

Chair: Des Jones

Mr Denis Baguley has been the Chief Executive at Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne since 2003. He spoke of the recent developments at the Shrine and the 2014-2018 Anzac Centenary.

 

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Betty Kitchener- Around the World with the Mental Health First Aid Training and Research Program

Betty talked about the origins of Mental Health First Aid training, the Action Plan taught in the course, its spread to over 20 countries, and told some stories about her experiences in taking the training program to those countries. 

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Dr Karen Block-- Beyond Bushfires Study

Karen Block is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Health Equity in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health of the University of Melbourne.

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Franco Urlini

Franco Urlini, Counsellor and Mediator Family Court 

Franco shared some of his near 4 decades of experience as a counsellor at the Victoria Family Court. He brought home that there are many sad clients of this court. Only a small number of separated couples go to Court.  The ones that do, are often sad and or angry. Having restricted access to your kids is tough and it can be difficult to maintain a good relationship with the children.

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Hat Day: Jo Robinson—New approaches to suicide prevention in young people

Jo Robinson was invited as a speaker as part of the Club’s celebration of Australian Rotary Health Hat Day. Jo works as a researcher at Orygen on youth suicide. She spoke about priorities for suicide research and new approaches to suicide prevention using the internet and social media.

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Bronwyn Stephens -- Cambodia

Bronwyn spoke about a project in Cambodia that the Rotary Club of Carlton is involved in, together with other clubs in the district. The project won a Rotary District International Service Award 2013-2014.

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Rebecca Harris

Rebecca Harris - Communiy Learning Co-ordinator at Carlton Primary School

"Trauma informed practice in schools"

Carlton Primary School adjoins the high-rise public housing estate in Carlton, Victoria. The estate is home to a large number of migrants and refugees from countries in the Horn of Africa, many of whom are affected by the trauma of violence, loss of family and forced displacement. The school has developed considerable expertise in caring for and educating children from these backgrounds.

Rebecca gave some examples of the traumas and challenges faced by the school community and ways the school was supporting those families.

Speaker: Dr. Bruce Wells - Managing Stress in the Workplace

Bruce gave the Club a mini workshop of his presentation. He summarised stress as that sinking feeling we all get! You know you are stressed if you have the following:

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Kent Perdrisat

"Listening to the Tax Man - The ATO Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow". Kent has worked at the ATO for over 30 years, having taken a position there in 1982.

The ATO has been around for 100 years, with the role not to write but to interprte and administer relevant tax legislation. The introduction of self assessment in 1986 was a major change, followed shortly later by signifcnat computerisation. GST was introduced in 2000 and is again the ATO is on the cusp of re-invention.

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Chris Egger

Chris Egger- Membership Presentation (D9800 Membership Director 2015-16)– Producing an Effective Membership Plan

Maintaining membership is a major issue for all Rotary Clubs in Australia.  Membership is falling in Australia and other developed countries, although it is growing in developing countries, so is being maintained worldwide.  One reason for this fall in Australia is the rise in single purpose charitable organisations that, between them, are supporting many of the issues our communities are facing.

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