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:  Elaine Bensted, CEO Zoos SA

Zoos SA Masterplan

Elaine Bensted commenced as Chief Executive of Zoos South Australia in September 2012.  Since then Elaine has led an improvement in the financial position of this conservation charity and an increase in Zoos SA membership base from 26,000 to over 43,000.  She also led the work that culminated in the release of a 20 year Master Plan for both Adelaide and Monarto Zoos in early 2015.

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: Tony Lawry, CEO, Leigh Creek Energy

Tony Lawry is responsible for Corporate, Government and Investor Relations at ASX listed company Leigh Creek Energy Limited (LCK), which is an emerging energy company focussed on developing its flagship Leigh Creek Energy Project.  LCK has recently received environmental approval for its in situ gasification demonstration plant at Leigh Creek.  This will involve the construction of an above ground plant and the establishment of a below ground single gasifier chamber.

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:  Tony Magnusson, Co-ordinating Curator of Colours of Impressionism and Art Gallery of South Australia Curator of European and North American Art

Colour of Impressionism
Masterpieces from the Musée D'Orsay

As curator of European and North American art at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Tony Magnusson looks after the painting and sculpture collections dating from antiquity through to 1980.  Following a twenty-year career in journalism, Tony completed a graduate diploma and an MA in history of art at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London before joining the Gallery in 2016.  Aside from his strong interest in fifteenth-century Italian and Netherlandish art, Tony is currently coordinating curator of the Gallery’s upcoming blockbuster Colours of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay, and he recently assisted AGSA’s curator of contemporary art, Leigh Robb, in mounting the 2017 exhibition Versus Rodin: bodies across space and time.  Tony also edits the Gallery’s quarterly publication, Articulate.
 

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 Speakers:  DGE David Egan and IPP D'Arcy Walsh

Rotary - the Future

After almost 100 years of successful operation in Australia and New Zealand, Rotary finds itself at a very significant crossroad.  With declining membership over the last ten years (down 13% in Australia and 19% in NZ) and an ageing membership demographic (average age 71), the continued existence of Rotary as we know it in this fast changing world is under considerable threat.

Renmark Club River’s Edge Function Centre From 6 pm for 7 pm start

Please join us at the River’s Edge Function Centre for an evening of fellowship, fun and live music with members, partners and friends of our two Rotary Clubs.

We are delighted to welcome Neil Andrew who is Chairman of the Murray Darling Authority as the evening’s guest speaker.

Dinner will be a choice of 2 dishes for alternate drop (e.g. Roasted Black Angus Fillet or Lemon Myrtle and Almond Crusted Australian Barramundi etc.) plus choice of dessert of lime and vanilla bean panacotta, hazelnut brownie with ice cream, cheese plate etc.)

Entertainment will be provided by exciting local light jazz duo Glenn (guitar) and Richard (flute, clarinet and saxophone).

See you there!

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:  Elizabeth (Liz) Perry, President and Chair, RAA

Lessons from Corporate Life and Small Business

Elizabeth Perry is President and Chairman of the RAA of South Australia, as well as RAA Insurance.  She is Deputy Chancellor of Flinders University, and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.  Ms Perry is a law graduate from the University of Adelaide, Partner at EMA Legal and has more than 30 years experience in providing strategic and legal advice in the area of employment law.

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:  Flavia Tata Nardini, CEO, Fleet Space Technologies

Internet of Things and Commercialisation of Space

Flavia Tata Nardini began her career at the European Space Agency as a Propulsion Test Engineer. She then joined TNO, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research to work on advanced space propulsion projects. In 2015, Flavia co-founded Fleet, a connectivity company set to maximise the resource efficiency of human civilisation through low cost, low power remote massive IoT. Fleet will launch the first of over 100 planned nanosatellites in 2018, enabling the next industrial revolution with a free, ubiquitous connectivity platform.

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:  Professor Gary Wittert 

Myths and Men's Health

Professor Gary Wittert obtained his medical degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg South Africa. He trained as an endocrinologist in Christchurch New Zealand and subsequently received postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School and Oregon Health Sciences University.

He joined the University of Adelaide in 1994, received a Personal Chair in 2004 and is currently Head of the Discipline of Medicine, and Senior Consultant Endocrinologist Royal Adelaide Hospital. He is Director of the Freemasons Foundation Centre for Men’s Health Research, and a founding member of the Centre of Research Excellence in Nutritional Physiology. He heads the Centre for Nutrition and Gastrointestinal Diseases within the Nutrition Theme at the South Australian Institute for Health and Medical Research.

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:  Robert 'Dogs' Kearney OAM 

Valour and Violets - South Australia in the Great War

Robert Kearney is a military historian with insight that comes from 20 years of service in the Australian Regular Army and a further 18 years in the Army Reserve, mostly as a commissioned officer. Valour and Violets is Robert's sixth book about Australia's military history. Valour and Violets brings together for the first time the stories of the campaigns and battles in which South Australians served, set against the backdrop of the South Australian home front.

In 2016, Robert was awarded an OAM for his service to military history preservation and the community.

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:  Katie Sarah, the First Woman to do the Seven-Seven

Climb Every Mountain

In 2007 Katie came to within 400m of the summit of Mount Everest on her first ever high-altitude climb.

A successful summit was prevented partly by a badly healed broken ankle.

After gaining more climbing experience, she returned to Mt Everest in 2010. This was a successful bid, becoming the first South Australian (and sixth Australian) woman to summit Everest.

In 2013 Katie completed the 7 summits, successful climbs of each of the highest peaks on each continent.

In January 2018 Katie completed the 7 volcanic summits, with a summit of Mt Sidley in Antarctica.

She is the only female in the world, and one of only less than 10 people ever, to have completed both the 7 summits and 7 volcanic summits.