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NEXT MEETING TUESDAY 20th OCTOBER2015 GUEST SPEAKER MR LAURIE BENSONGOURMET FARMERS MARKET: LOOK OUTFOR THE NEXT MARKET ON THE FIRSTTHURSDAY IN NOVEMBER

'LIGHTS AND BITES' INVITATION:ABSOLUTELY LAST OPPORTUNITY TO BOOK

MEETING REPORT 13th OCTOBER 2015

NEXT MEETING - GUEST SPEAKER LAURIE BENSON20th OCTOBER 2015

GUEST SPEAKER: LAURIE BENSONTITLE OF TALK: Masterpieces from theHermitage: The Legacy of Catherine theGreat

Catherine the Great bought her art collection with agentsabroad to advise and bid for her. She would choose fromthe lists they prepared then snap them up and bring themto St Petersburg. Catherine would assess the worksherself – Rubens, Rembrandt, Raphael, Tintoretto,Tiepolo, Titian, Velasquez.

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MeetingResponsibilities

ChairHERON, Bruce

PresenterTHOMAS, Tony

GreeterHARVEY, Koren

ReporterHINES, Rob

PhotographerWALKLATE, Kevin

DoorILOTT, John

Director ReportGARRETT, Roy

Bulletin EditorDRIVER, Allan

UpcomingEvents

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Curator Laurie Benson, one of the great pleasures ofworking at the National Gallery of Victoria comes from thewealth of new experiences provided by the gallery’s broadand diverse exhibition schedule. Over 400 works from thepersonal collection of Catherine the Great has travelled toMelbourne from the Hermitage to present Masterpiecesfrom the Hermitage: The Legacy of Catherine the Great.Laurie will share an insight into working with one of theworld’s most important collections.

Laurie Benson is Curator of International Art at theNational Gallery of Victoria. He has been at the NGVsince 1999 and has worked on a number of majorexhibitions including Caravaggio Darkness and Light, TheImpressionists, Dutch Master’s, Salvador Dali LiquidDesire, and Cinema India, the Art of Bollywood, ItalianMasterpieces from Spain’s Royal Court, Museo del Pradoand this year’s blockbuster Masterpieces from theHermitage The Legacy of Catherine the Great.

With Ted Gott and Sophie Matthiesson of the NGV, heco-curated of Modern Britain 1900-1960. Laurie has alsoco-authored three of the handbooks of the NGVInternational Art collection. As well as being the curator ofMedieval Moderns: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood he isalso co-curator of the current exhibition The Horse.

GOURMET FARMERS MARKET - NEXTMARKET IS 5th NOVEMBER

Our 5th GOURMET FARMERS MARKET is on Thursday,5th November 2015.

Please note that Paul Fraser is the contact person toenable you to contact for volunteering either forbumping in or bumping out. Paul can be contacted onmobile 0457 788 753 oremail: [email protected]

"LIGHTS and BITES"The Penthouse, Victoria TowerOct 17, 20157:00 PM – 11:00 PM

SpeakersOct 20, 2015Laurie BensonMasterpieces from theHermitage: the Legacy ofCatherine the Great

Oct 27, 2015Melanie RaymondActivities of the Youth Projectsorganisation operating fromHosier Lane.

Nov 03, 2015NO MEETING THIS WEEK -PUBLIC HOLIDAY

Nov 10, 2015Kath WaltersThe Bystander Effect, and WhyBoards Need to Overcome It

Nov 24, 2015PAUL HARRIS BREAKFAST DRKATE LESLIEBookings essential see link inmore info

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Also, the market has gained in popularity: See link forrecent publicity: Goldbrough FarmersMarket http://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/food-and-drink/article/first-farmers-market-city

If you haven't been to our market yet we hope youcan make it to this one. Volunteers are alwayswelcome to bump in and bump out.

If you have been already we know there is a strongchance you will be joining the repeat customers wehave noticed.

181 William Street, CBD. 4.30pm - 7.30pm

LIGHTS AND BITES: LAST OPPORTUNITYTO BOOK


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LAST OPPORTUNITY TO BOOK FOR THISWONDERFUL EVENT

[SEE FLYER BELOW]

CONTACT PETER DURAS: 0413 599 121 OREMAIL: [email protected]

OUR COMMUNITY SERVICES TEAM IN ACTION

THE MISSING INGREDIENT ISYOUR PARTICIPATION

Lights and Bites is all about our members,partners and friends getting together for a social

evening where we will be spoilt by Sue andPeter, their penthouse and the views.

With the fringe benefit of raising funds tosupport the life saving

STREET NIGHT NURSES PROGRAMMore about this new club initiative below

Please contact Peter now


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CONTACT PETER NOW PLEASETel. 0413 599 121

E-mail: [email protected]

MEETING REPORT 13th OCTOBER 2015Posted by Marjorie GERLINGER

Meeting Report: 13th October 2015Chair: Roy Garrett

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Paul Fraser - Gourmet Farmer’s MarketThe market will be visited by the Lord Mayor on 5th

November it would be great to have lots of Rotariansand partners around on that day.


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Volunteers are required for two more market dates inDecember Paul will be emailing all members with thedetails. Please check your calendar and volunteer forBump-in or Bump-out.

Roy Garrett – Paul Harris BreakfastPlease publicise this event to all your friends, familyand work colleagues. We are looking for a targetnumber of 300 attendees.

President GeorgeGeorge mentioned that there is a new cluster initiativeto develop an Alumni of young people sponsored toattend various youth programs and to develop anongoing communication strategy and pathways backinto Rotary.

Strategic Planning StreamsVolunteers are required to join the project teams.Please contact the team leaders urgently to helpprogress our planning process – only three peoplehave volunteered following the club forum.Project team leaders Fundraising – Greg Cuthbert Membership – Neville John Project Management – Anne King

Public Relations – Volunteer for team leaderrequired – please contact George

DIRECTORS REPORTPeter Duras – Community Service

IftarDinner –The nextevent will beheld in July2016.Planning isunderway ledby Alan Sealeand EliasLebbos.

The Men’s Shed – The official opening was held on7th September and attended by State ministers andthe Lord Mayor with publicity of the event in the localnewspaper. The continuing role of the committee willbe to promote the Shed in the high-rise buildings inSouthbank and the CBD.


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McAuley House Women’s Refuge – A large allweather dog enclosure and kennel was purchased andinstalled. The staff and resident’s are delighted as itwill allow women with dogs to use the refuge, as theyfear if they leave them behind the animals will beattacked. The complete cost of this project was fundedby Dick Mitchell which is very much appreciated.Installation was completed by Peter Duras, KevinWalklate and Bernie Gerlinger, a much bigger andmore difficult task than anticipated.

Camp Getaway – The Club will not hold a workingbee this year but are planning on making a saw horseat the Men’s Shed to make the cutting of fire woodmuch safer. Project leader – Kevin Walklate.

Mentoring at Lentara UnitingCare – The pilotMentoring program carried out by Kevin Love andAllan Driver is currently being professionally assessed.Once this information is received a decision will bemade whether the next stage is consolidation orexpansion.

Tree of Joy – TAL has confirmed they will againsupport this project and the gift recipients will be thesame as last year – Steps Outreach Service, Shine forKids and Lentara. Project leader – StellaAvramopoulos.

Christmas Hampers – This project will take thesame form as last year and will again support StepsOutreach Service and Lentara. Project leaders –Gerard Hogan with assistance from Margaret Thomas.

Community Village – Ably lead again by NeilSalvano this project will run during December and Neilwill shortly be calling for volunteers.

Roadec – Kevin Walklate is serving on the DistrictRoadec Community and is keeping the committeeinformed.

Basic Education and Literacy – We plan, with Boardapproval, to again financially support this Districtprogram.

Youth Projects – Night Patrol Nurses – The Boardhas approved funding of $3,200 to allow two highlytrained nurses to operate for 10 high priority nights inthe CBD over the coming months. The Lights andBites fundraiser on 17th October should go a long way


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to covering the cost of this new, and potentially, lifesaving program.

STAN GAWEL – RC Balwyn – On how to increasemembershipTony Thomas introduced his friend Stan who is ofPolish Ancestry and came down from Sydney a whileback. He was GM of Westpac’s retail arm for southernAustralia but had a mid-life crisis and went intobusiness on his own as a wine wholesaler. Stan joinedthe RC Balwyn 18 months ago and turned his salesskills to recruiting members. In an interview stylepresentation Tony extracted the following information

from Stan:

RC Balwynrecruited 18newmembers in2014-2015You need apersonrunning therecruitment

process who will drive itPromote the product – Rotary is the ProductGo out and talk to businesses and organisationsUnless you get of your bum and do somethingnothing happensLook at improving gender balance and diversityRecruit members from all age groups (they havemembers in their early 20s)Use the message “Give back to the community”In some cases people found the cost too highand instead joined the Friends of Rotary Groupand volunteer on projects or supportfundraising.Recruit children of membersRotarians are great people and do great thingsbut they don’t sell their clubs to potentialmembers. (His comment was “Piss poor salespeople”)Hold a membership event – identify potentialcandidates, invite, follow-up with a phone call,eye ball them and talk to them.YOU HAVE TO ASK

SPEAKERNicholas ReeceMelbourne's Democracy Experiment Pays Off


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Nicholasstarted by sharing stats taken in 2013on views on democracy

In the18-29 agerange – 48percentthoughtdemocracywaspreferable toany otherkind ofgovernment.27 percentthought thatin some

circumstances, a non-democratic government couldbe preferable and 21 percent said that for someonelike me, it doesn’t matter what kind of government wehave.

In the 30+ group the stats were 62 percent, 25percent and 11 percent.

More recent updates to those figures :

A Lowy Poll in June found that only 60 per centof Australians believe that "democracy ispreferable to any other kind of government".And a recent ANU survey found that Australians'satisfaction with democracy had slumped from86 per cent in 2007 to 72 per cent in 2014.

So the challenge is:

Australia’s democratic institutions were built inthe 1850s and 1901.The system is struggling to build communityconsensus for reform.No silver bullet solution … but we need to start


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experimenting

The “Boule”So how did the Melbourne’s People Panel come to be.The group drew its inspiration from the 5th century BCwhen the Greeks used a similar sort of body, knownas a boule, to make decisions on public affairs. TheBoule was a “Council of citizens” chosen by lot.

The genius of the system was that it created a processfor collective decision-making that treated all citizensas equal – and it was highly resistant to corruption.Also a very good means of establishing PUBLICOPINION.

In the modern era, ordinary citizens are not normallywell-informed on complex policy issues. Socialscientists call this "rational ignorance". If you knowyour vote is only one in millions, why would you takethe time to get across all the issues given all the otherpressures you have in your life.

If people have an opinion it is often one formed fromsound bites and headlines, or conversations withpeople who have the same opinions as them. As aresult, many people do not get the proper occasion toconsider competing arguments.

A people's panel allows you to establish public opinionon an issue once they have had a good chance toconsider the issue. People's panels have proven thatthe public is very smart if given a chance. If peoplethink their voice actually matters, they'll do the hardwork, ask the experts smart questions and then maketough decisions. The result creates the cover forpoliticians to do the right thing.

The people's panel – sometimes called a "citizens'jury" – provides a way for ordinary citizens to workthrough the difficult trade-offs that are involved inpolicymaking.

Melbourne’s Peoples PanelIn late 2014 - 43 residents and business owners,selected through a random sample, to makerecommendations on a $5 billion financial plan for thecouncil.

Meeting over six Saturdays the Melbourne People'sPanel as it was known was given open access toinformation and financial data about council, along


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with briefings by experts, senior bureaucrats andcouncillors.

The task was made more challenging by the $1.2billion gap between what council has promised todeliver over the next 10 years and its capacity to fundit on current budget settings.

Like citizens serving on a jury, the panel membersdeliberated over what they heard and reached averdict in the form of recommendations to councillorson priority projects, services, revenue and spending.

Some of the MPP Recommendations

Rate rises each year of up to 2.5 per cent aboveCPI and an increase in developer contributionsSell non-core assets to reduce the council'sproperty portfolio but against privatisation ofCitywidePrudent increase in debt finance maintain AAcredit rating.Questioned redevelopment of Queen VictoriaMarket 1 per cent compounding efficiency dividend butprotect community servicesIncrease funding to address climate change aswell as more bicycle lanes and increasedfootpath widths in certain areas.


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