Our weekly lunch meetings are held on Wednesday 12.30pm for 1.00pm at the...

ATTENTION!!! Change of venue due to Hotel work near the Cathedral Room

The Premiership Suite - Located in the Riverbank Stand, Level 3, its proximity to the William Magarey Room

Please note that $27 price is for web booking only - price at the Welcome Desk is unchanged $30

Guest Speaker: Tanya Hosch, AFL's GM of Inclusion and Social Policy

Social Inclusion and Women

Tanya Hosch is the General Manager of Inclusion and Social Policy at the AFL.  She has a long and distinguished history in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander policy, advocacy, governance and fundraising.  Before joining the AFL in August 2016 as the first ever Indigenous person and third woman in their executive ranks, Tanya was the Joint Campaign Director of the Recognise Movement for constitutional reform.  At the AFL, Tanya’s portfolios include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues, gender equality, sexuality and gender diversity.  She is tasked with the implementation of the AFL’s enhanced Indigenous strategy, advising the AFL Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Council, and maintenance of the Respect and Responsibility policy 2017, the AFL’s Gender Action Plan and the Gender Diversity Policy.  Tanya is a member of the Indigenous Advisory Group of the NAB and is a board director of the Indigenous Land Corporation, Circus Oz, and the Australian Indigenous Governance Institute.  She was a member of the Referendum Council that led the process and final recommendation that resulted in the Statement from the Heart in May 2017.

Our weekly lunch meetings are held on Wednesday 12.30pm for 1.00pm at the...

Adelaide Oval, Cathedral Room, Level 3, Eastern Grandstand, King William Rd North Adelaide.

Please note that $27 price is for web booking only - price at the Welcome Desk is unchanged $30

Guest Speaker: Briony Hume, Sunrise Children's Association

Help without harm - the challenges of voluntourism 

Adelaide-based Briony Hume has a career in broadcast journalism spanning three decades. She has worked as a reporter for ABC News and the 7.30 Report, as a story producer in London for the WTN network, and has spent 25 years at the 7 Network as a reporter, producer, presenter and chief of staff. She currently she works as a presenter on the local lifestyle show SA Weekender. She has been associated with Sunrise Children’s Association since 2009, serving on the committee from 2015 - 2018.

August Social Evening  

Muthuhara Adelaide & Adelaide High Interact

Muthuhara Adelaide, the local chapter of a Sri Lankan children's society, and the Adelaide High  Interact club are two student clubs in the spirit of Rotary. For the August Social Evening we invited leaders from both clubs to share with us about their clubs and the activities and events they are involved in.

So join us on Tuesday, August 20th, 5:30pm for a 6pm start, to hear from these student leaders about how they improve their lives and the world we live in. We will meet at our usual venue at Waverley House, part of St.Andrews Hospital at 360 South Terrace in the CBD and $10 will get you free drinks, nibbles and a great evening of fellowship, fun and a meeting with the leaders of the future.

Our weekly lunch meetings are held on Wednesday 12.30pm for 1.00pm at the...

Adelaide Oval, Cathedral Room, Level 3, Eastern Grandstand, King William Rd North Adelaide.

Please note that $27 price is for web booking only - price at the Welcome Desk is unchanged $30

Guest Speaker: Alison Beare, CEO UKARIA Cultural Centre

Alison has over 25 years experience as a highly skilled senior administrator and advisor.  She was appointed to her current role in 2013 and is responsible for implementing the philanthropic vision and mission of UKARIA and the Ulrike Klein Foundation in close consultation with the Directors of each Board and the Founder, Ulrike Klein AO.  She is responsible for the overall management of the UKARIA Cultural Centre, programs its annual cultural program https://www.ukaria.com/events/ and manages its residency program.

Our weekly lunch meetings are held on Wednesday 12.30pm for 1.00pm at the...

Adelaide Oval, Cathedral Room, Level 3, Eastern Grandstand, King William Rd North Adelaide.

Please note that $27 price is for web booking only - price at the Welcome Desk is unchanged $30

Guest Speaker: Prof Nicholas Procter, Chair: Mental Health Nursing, Uni SA

Refugee and asylum seeker distress and suicidality

Professor Nicholas Procter is Chair: Mental Health Nursing and leader of UniSA’s Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Research Group.  Working as a Communities of Practice, the group brings together consumers, clinicians, policy makers and academic faculty.  Professor Procter has a longstanding interest in trauma informed practice, mental health and suicide prevention, and has published widely on this topic.  In 2017 he commenced a national targeted suicide prevention program for NGO sector workers supporting asylum seekers and refugees in the Australian community, and this work continues throughout 2019.

Our weekly lunch meetings are held on Wednesday 12.30pm for 1.00pm at the...

Adelaide Oval, Cathedral Room, Level 3, Eastern Grandstand, King William Rd North Adelaide.

Please note that $27 price is for web booking only - price at the Welcome Desk is unchanged $30

Guest Speaker: Karyn Kent, CEO StudyAdelaide

SA Government Activities in International Education

Karyn Kent was educated at The University of Adelaide, gaining a Bachelor of Economics, and at TafeSA.  She commenced as Chief Executive of StudyAdelaide in 2014.  She has had an extensive career in destination marketing, including executive roles with the South Australian Tourism Commission and Tourism Australia.  She was SATC’s global International Marketing Manager and later Director of Sales before moving to Singapore where she was Tourism Australia’s Regional General Manager South/South East Asia and Gulf Countries.  In this role she was responsible for implementing Tourism Australia’s marketing strategy across the region, and managed teams based in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Mumbai.

Karyn moved back to South Australia in 2014 to take up the role of Chief Executive with StudyAdelaide, which is responsible for marketing Adelaide as an international study destination.  In 2016, she was appointed to the national Council for International Education, which was formed to oversee the implementation of Australia’s first National Strategy for International Education 2025, working with education providers, industry and federal, state and territory governments.

Our weekly lunch meetings are held on Wednesday 12.30pm for 1.00pm at the...

Adelaide Oval, Cathedral Room, Level 3, Eastern Grandstand, King William Rd North Adelaide.

Please note that $27 price is for web booking only - price at the Welcome Desk is unchanged $30

Guest Speaker: Michael O'Connell, Second Chances SA

Prisoners' children - invisible victims of crime

Michael O’Connell AM, APM has worked in the field of victimology for about three decades.  For twelve of these years, he served as the first Commissioner for Victims' Rights in SA (and in Australia).  Since his retirement from paid-work in July 2018, Michael has continued and expanded his volunteering as an advocate and expert.  He has, for instance, carried the torch as Victims’ Advocate for Second Chances SA.  In this role he has, as his presentation will show, drawn attention to the plight of prisoners' children.

Michael will speak about how children of prisoners are overlooked, ignored and lost into the criminal justice system – not their crime – not their fault.

Please note that $27 price is for web booking only - price at the Welcome Desk is $30

Our weekly lunch meetings are held on Wednesday 12.30pm for 1.00pm at the...

Adelaide Oval, Cathedral Room, Level 3, Eastern Grandstand, King William Rd North Adelaide.

Guest Speaker:

Sharon Zivkovic

Cofounder and Chief Innovation Officer, Wicked Lab

Addressing wicked problems through social entrepreneurship

Sharon Zivkovic is the Founder and Principal Facilitator of Community Capacity Builders which has been delivering social entrepreneurship and active citizenship programs since 2006.

In 2016 Sharon and Emily Humphreys established Wicked Lab.  In 2018 the OECD included Wicked Lab’s online tool as a highlight in its Embracing Innovation in Government Global Trends 2018 Report.  This year the OECD has included a case study on Wicked Lab’s Systemic Innovation Lab methodology in its Transformation of Public Value: Cities as the Playground for the Future report.

Our weekly lunch meetings are held on Wednesday's

12.30pm for 1.00pm at the... 

Adelaide Oval, Cathedral Room, Level 3, Eastern Grandstand, King William Rd North Adelaide.

This Week's Guest Speaker:

Lainie Anderson

South Australia’s Epic Flight Centenary 2019 Program Ambassador.

The Epic Flight That Shrank The World

Shining a light on one of the most inspirational (and largely forgotten) stories in world aviation history – the epic first flight from England to Australia by South Australia’s Smith brothers.

This weekly lunch meetings will be held on Wednesday July 3rd, 12.30pm for 1.00pm at the Adelaide Oval, William Magarey Room East, Level 3, Riverbank Stand, War Memorial Drive, North Adelaide.

Meet the President 2019/20 Adriano Cisternino