In Gear R O T A R Y C L U B O F B E A U M A R I S W E E K L Y B U L L E T I N Number 38, 11 April 2016

Next Meetings

THURSDAY 14 APRIL

NO MEETING. REFER TRISH’S EMAIL

THURSDAY 21 APRIL

SPEAKER: MURRAY THOMPSON , MP

TOPIC: LOCAL MEMBER UPDATE

CHAIR: CHRIS WERNER

AV: DAVID LEA

CASH DESK: CLEM QUICK & GEOFF STOCKDALE

HOST:MARY SEALY

THURSDAY 28 APRIL

CLUB NIGHT

DETAILS TO BE ADVISED

THURSDAY 5 MAY

SPEAKER: KELLY EDWARDS -

TOPIC: BAYSIDE COUNCIL YOUTH SERVICES

CHAIR: LOIS LINDSAY

AV: ROSS PHILLIPS

CASH DESK: TONY MCKENNA & TONY PHILLIPS

HOST: RICHARD SHERMON

2015—2016

Serving the Community since 1985

Presidents Report

I was rereading my Conference notes this week and noting

that Ian Risely had said that we must never change our ethical

standards. How true! We can change, and often need to

change, but some aspects of Rotary need to stay the same;

our ethical standards, our fellowship and our commitment to

community. Our commitment to community was well to the

fore this week, with the Farmers Market this Saturday. Over

20 members helped at the market, honorary members David

Greenall and Brian Kimpton were there too continuing their

involvement. The market creates community and it gives a

tremendous basis for our work, both locally and internationally.

It was also wonderful to see that even without Ken, Malcolm

and Chris that there’s enough knowledge and continuity for us

to setup and open the market. As always Heather is a lynch-

pin, thanks to all who helped on Saturday. We were able to

raffle a Golf Bag, thanks to Heather’s friends and Drummond’s

Golf who originally donated it. Pleasingly it was one by some-

one well known to us who spent $50 on tickets.

Peter Flude tells me that he is in fruitful negotiations with the

Education Department at the highest level regarding our con-

tinuing occupation of the site.

Next week will see the District Golf Day, if anyone would like to

join me at Keysborough let me know, I am contacting the or-

ganisers to say that we are expecting about 10-15 people.

The Board meeting is this Tuesday, so another busy Rotary

week.

Best wishes to you all,

Yours in Rotary

Trish

Contents

1 Presidents Report 2 Notices 3 Exchange Student Letter 4 / 5 This Week’s Speaker 6 Bayside Mayoral Charity Golf Day 7 Club Structure / Picture of the Day

Unless stated otherwise venue is Victoria Golf Club 6.30 for 7.00

Note; As part of our arrangement with Hocking Stuart dis-counts on agents fees are available to RCOB members.

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Hocking Stuart Sandringham 62-64 Station Street

Telephone: 03 9521 9800

237 Bay Road, Cheltenham VIC 3192 03 8535 7980

Farmers Market Raffle Proceeds for Injured Teenager Zack and the lemonade boys raised over $200 selling lemonade and the Beaumaris Rotary raffle raised $620 for Will Murray. Will seriously injured his spinal cord doing what so many other kids have done — jumping off a pier at Half Moon Bay.

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Letter from French Exchange Student Louise

The following letter and photos were received in an email from Louise Pierres last week. Louise was hosted by Beaumaris Rotary in 2010.

“Hello from France It’s been now 6 years since I came to Australia, July 1st 2010. It was a wonderful year for me, with so many encounter that I will never forget.

I have done a lot since I left Australia. I was back then just seventeen, the year that follow I had my baccalaureate (or high school diploma), then I went to live in Nantes to study art history. I am now finishing my licence of archaeology. And next year I hope starting a master in Toulouse (In the beautiful region of Dordogne that everybody use to tell me about it).

Also I am now a lucky aunt and godmother of the beautiful son of my brother François. He lives now with his wife and son in Corsica, a very warm French island. Alexis is now a doctor and lives near Marseille. And my other brother Emilien and his wife are very happy in Lyon, where their always going skying. My mom and dad are now very happy grand-parents and are still living in the small town of La Flèche, nearly retired then new hobby is sailing. So this is me, I know it has been a long time since I talk to you, but I want you to know that I thing often of this experience, it feel like it was only last year since I left. I want to thank you again for the opportunity that you gave me. (Even if my English is becoming terrible). I try to work beside school, and in the summer, because I really want to come back in Australia to see you all.”

against corruption, with a presence in over 100 countries.

TI’s Vision, Objectives and Guiding Princi-

ples and Mission and Strategy is as the only international

non-governmental organisation focusing exclusively on

the issue of corruption. TI believes that corruption is one

of the greatest challenges of the contemporary world. For-

mer TI Australia Chairman Henry Bosch describes the

damage it causes and some of the current initiatives be-

ing taken to tackle it in his authoritative paper The Grow-

ing Threat of International Corruption . Since TI’s launch

in 1993, corruption has become a global issue and

the World Bank among others has credited TI’s key role in

achieving this.

TI Australia was launched in March 1995 to raise aware-

ness of international business corruption in Australia and

to initiate moves to combat it. See TI Australia Constitu-

tion. Among its organisation members are ANZ Bank,

BHP Billiton and Westpac, three of Australia’s largest

companies, as well as World Vision Australia and others

from the development sector. Support has come from

other companies with international business interests, the

accounting, legal and engineering professions, the aca-

demic community, enforcement agencies, political lead-

ers, and non-governmental organisations.

Holly’s talk covered amongst other topics;

• The role of TI in spotlighting government corruption

• The Panama papers

• The Lux Leaks scandal (via a short video)

• Australia’s slipping ranking in the annual Corruption

Perception Index publication.

For the information of readers I have reproduced the lat-

est table of the Corruption Perception Index for the last

four years covering the top 26 and the bottom seven

countries. Australia’s changing position makes for an

interesting comparison.

For more information visit;

http://www.transparency.org/

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Speaker: Holly Lindsay

Topic: Transparency International

Holly Lindsay is a Direc-

tor of Transparency In-

ternational Australia.

She runs her own com-

pany, Integrity Matters

established in 2010

providing advice to or-

ganisations regarding

sustainability strategy, economic policy, business ethics,

country risk, strategic planning and governance.

Her academic background includes a master's degree in

economics (Queen's University, Canada) and a senior

executive MBA (Melbourne Business School, University

of Melbourne).

Holly has in-depth experience in the mining and oil and

gas sectors, banking and government sectors, including

over 15 years in extractive industries. Prior to founding

Integrity Matters in 2010, Holly held a number of senior

corporate positions at BHP Billiton (1996-2009), where

she was responsible for designing and rolling out the

company’s global business ethics program, developing its

climate change policy, and monitoring and assessing

macroeconomic and sovereign risk issues.

In 2012 Holly ran CSR Asia’s Singapore Office and led

projects for clients such as Fuji Xerox, ACCOR, AVIVA

Insurance, SABIC and City Developments Limited.

Holly has also held senior roles at the Reserve Bank of

Australia (in Sydney, Australia), the Canadian Federal

Government’s Department of Finance (Ottawa, Canada)

and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (Toronto,

Canada). She is a Graduate Member of the Australian

Institute of Company Directors. Holly is a governor of

WWF-Australia and actively supports Transparency Inter-

national and Oxfam-Australia.

Transparency International Australia is the national chap-

ter of Transparency International (TI), the global coalition

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CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS INDEX ; 2012 to 2015

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CLUB STRUCTURE 2015 / 16 UPDATED 2/11/2015

BOARD CLUB SERVICE

President Trish Smyth Director Malcom Sawle

PE, VP Malcolm Sawle Auditor Tony Phillips

Secretary Roy Seager Program Greg Every

Treasurer James Glenwright Meeting Attendance Malcolm Sawle

Foundation Mike Hede Communications David Lea

Branding / PR / Memb’ship Megan Glenwright Fellowship Richard Jones

International John Beaty Photographers Max Darby, Greg Every

Youth Service Vacant Almoners Charmaine Jansz & Geoff Stringer

Community Chris D'Arcy Chair /Host /Cashiers /AV Roster

Fundraising Heather Chisholm Youth Protection Officer Malcolm Parks

On to Conference Ken Mirams

TEAM MEMBERS

International Community Youth Fundraising

Fred Hofmann Geoff Abbott David Rushworth Harry Wolfe

David Langworthy Mary Sealy Tony McKenna * Roger Frewen

Geoff Stockdale Richard Shermon Chris Martin Geoff Stringer

Ross Phillips Tony Phillips Vivienne Zoppolato David Hone

Malcolm Parks Lynda Doutch Lois Lindsay Charmaine Jansz

John Manks John Van Dyk (?) Royal Melbourne Golf Antony Nixon

Concourse Festival Ken Mirams Jim O'Brien Mike Hede

Richard Shermon Chris Werner Adrian Culshaw Peter Flude^

Kerrie Geard Branding / PR / Memb. David Hone# Clem Quick (Team TBA)

Jim O’Brien Lynda Doutch Robert McArthur* MUNA / NYSF

Masters Golf Parking David Lea Heather Chisolm^

James Glenwright Martin Fothergill Adrian Culshaw (LOA)

^ Farmers Market # Indigenous Project * District

John Sime Tim Dark Richard Jones Heather Chisholm

Mary Cunnington (Team TBA) Max Darby Kerrie Geard

Gatekeeper Photograph by Danielle Lussier, Na-tional Geographic Your Shot “As I biked about the Aran Islands in Ireland,” writes Danielle Lussier, who submitted this photo, “I came across this horse ambling about in front of these church ruins, just after the daily Irish drizzle. He finally struck a pose for me at the gate.”