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The future of Rotary: Built on service, ready for change
Posted by Ian Ballantine on Nov 15, 2026
2026 2026-27 Membership Rotary Connections Rotary International
Taken from RDU HERE

By embracing flexibility, technology, diversity and global collaboration while remaining true to Service Above Self, Rotary is evolving to meet the needs of a new generation.

Words Tom Gump. Rotary International Director. Board Liaison to the Strategic Planning Committee.

For more than 120 years, Rotary has demonstrated an extraordinary ability to adapt to a changing world while remaining firmly rooted in its guiding principle of Service Above Self. From eradicating polio to promoting peace, supporting education, protecting the environment and strengthening communities, Rotary has continually evolved to meet society’s greatest needs.

Today, another period of transformation is underway.

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Museum worthy
Posted by Ian Ballantine on Nov 15, 2026
2026 2026-27 End Polio Now Rotary Connections Rotary Foundation

Taken from the RI Website HERE

From the iron lung to gene sequencing, a new Rotarian learns about polio’s scientific legacy

by Erin Gartner
11 Nov 2026

It’s an arresting sight. In a corner of a museum stands a child-sized iron lung, one of the imposing steel cylinders that at the peak of the polio epidemics of the 1940s and ’50s encased paralyzed children up to their necks and forced air into their lungs. They have been described ominously as coffin-like, but they were a miraculous technology, keeping thousands of children breathing with a mechanical whoosh until, in the best case, the tiny patients regained enough strength in their chest muscles to breathe on their own.

The machine — now a relic of a nearly forgotten era before polio vaccines — was part of a unique exhibit this summer at the Gates Foundation Discovery Center in Seattle. Titled the Museum of a Polio-Free World, the displays offered a look at the science and innovation that have brought the world to the brink of eliminating a disease that once paralyzed 350,000 people a year.

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Rotaractors ready to lead
Posted by Ian Ballantine on Nov 15, 2026
2026 2026-27 International Rotaract Rotary Connections

Taken from RI website HERE

Newly eligible to seek global grants, Rotaractors are showing they can bring fresh ideas to large international projects

by Arnold R. Grahl | Photography by Nipah Dennis 
11 Nov 2026

At the dedication of a new water station and borehole at a school in southern Ghana, children in white shirts perform a carefully choreographed dance as onlookers watch under large canopies. In a short skit, a child pours water from a bottle into a cup held by another and they both jump in celebration. Later, a woman balances a bucket on her head as water flows for the first time from an overhead spigot.

 

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People • Planet • Peace brought to life
Posted by Ian Ballantine on Nov 09, 2026
2025-26 2026 Conference Rotary Connections
Taken from RDU HERE

To see all the fun and festivities of the 2026 Rotary South Pacific Conference in action, check out the full photo gallery here

For many months, ‘People • Planet • Peace’ had just been a theme on a page, an idea discussed in meetings and a promise of what this conference might become.

From 30 October – 1 November, it was brought to life by passionate people at the 2026 Rotary South Pacific Conference in Melbourne, Vic.

Approximately 400 enthusiastic attendees filled the Melbourne Exhibition & Convention Centre, where they were inspired by a host of leaders from across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.

But a conference is not created by a program alone. It comes alive through people who ask questions, exchange ideas, renew friendships and make new connections. Some travelled considerable distances, so thank you to everyone who registered and made the decision to come to Melbourne.

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Interplast signs MOU with ROMAC
Posted by Ian Ballantine on Nov 06, 2026
2026 2026-27 International Interplast ROMAC Rotary Connections
A renewed partnership to help more children across the Pacific access the specialist care they need. 
Interplast and Rotary Oceania Medical Aid for Children (ROMAC) have signed a new MOU,  strengthening how our organisations work together to identify and support children who are not able to access life-saving surgery in their home countries. 
Newly appointed ROMAC Chair John Lawrence and current Chair Peter Garnett MBE met with Interplast CEO Misha Coleman to formalise this continued partnership. 
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Our Bentleigh Rotary Market a brief history
Posted by Linda O'Brien on Oct 30, 2026
2026 2026-27 Bentleigh Sunday Market Community Member Involvement
From a “Proposed Trash and Treasure Market” to a Rotary Club Legacy
On Sunday 6 November 1977, in perfect weather, 73 stallholders and 3,340 paying pedestrians turned up to the first Bentleigh Sunday Market. The day raised $952. Few could have guessed they were starting what our club history calls “probably the singularly most significant project” we have ever undertaken.
The market had hard-won beginning's it  was not handed to us. Approval from the City of Moorabbin depended on the support of the Bentleigh Chamber of Commerce, which stayed silent and then fought us once the project gained momentum. Our members answered with a detailed submission to every Councillor, and the result was a unanimous vote in favour of the Club using the Bent Street site. 
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Rotary International is an international service organisation whose stated human rights purpose is to bring together business and professional leaders in order to provide humanitarian services, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and to advance goodwill and peace around the world.
We provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through our fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.
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Our Club's major fundraising project is the Bentleigh Sunday Market.
Founded in 1977, it has so far raised over $2m which has been spent in the local community and on humanitarian projects overseas.
We support...
Riding for the Disabled
Marriott House Supporter
Holland Foundation
Angel Flight
Glen Eira Council Info. Office
Rural Aid Australia
Salvation Army
Family Life
Beachside Gift
Marriot Support Services
Moorabbin Toy Library
Glen Eira SES
Calvary Care
Bikes for Rochester
Sandringham Hospital
Shelterbags fro Homeless
The Soup Angel
Upcoming Events
Annual African Violet Show
Annual African Violet Show
Nov. 15, 2026 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Mt Waverley Community Centre
Breakfast Meeting-AGM & Committee Reports
Breakfast Meeting-AGM & Committee Reports
Nov. 18, 2026 7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
Gilbert's Cafe
Evening Meeting - Variety Bash
Evening Meeting - Variety Bash
Nov. 25, 2026 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Gilbert's Cafe
Fellowship Event...EVENING AT CILANTRO
Fellowship Event...EVENING AT CILANTRO
Nov. 26, 2026 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Cilantro Restaurant
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