Proposed Speaker Program (Including details of tonight's speaker, Mr Nick Hossack)
Posted by Roger Wescombe
on Jul 14, 2015
Proposed speakers and a brief outline of their topics follow:
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Speaker and subject
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JUL 7
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Changeover
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JUL 14
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Club assembly
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JUL 21
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Housing prices, youth unemployment, education costs: is our economy biased against the young? Nick Hossack will tell us what the data shows. Nick is an economist and policy analyst, a former adviser to Prime Minister John Howard and a former Policy Director of the Australian Bankers Association. His blog is at www.nickhossack.blogspot.com.
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JUL 28
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Solving chronic homelessness in Sydney. Winner of a District 9685 Rotary Global Grant scholarship and University Medallist in architecture from Sydney University, William Chan will speak on his research evaluating the new Common Ground building in Camperdown, which was presented at the 2014 International Union of Architects Congress in South Africa.
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AUG 4
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Although the invention of plastic has untold benefits, there are also environmental impacts associated with our addiction to plasticwhich 'lasts forever'. The Lane Cove Sustainability Action Group has been working in and outside the Lane Cove area since 2009 to promote sustainability. LCSAG members, Lyn Nasir and Sjirk Bangma, will share some of the groups’ work to date.
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AUG 11
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Council amalgamations: Who wants them? Why? What would be the costs and benefits for the people of Lane Cove? David Brooks-Horn is the Mayor of Lane Cove.
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AUG 18
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Philip Smith talks about ROMAC, Rotary Oceania Medical Aid for Children
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AUG 25
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The Northern Territory was the frontier environment to attract an adventurous young man in the 1950s. John Donald visited and worked in the Territory for short and extended periods in the 50s, 60s and 70s on Aboriginal settlements, in the trucking industry, as a public servant and even as facilitator of a brickworks. This is the illustrated history of his adventures.
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SEP 1
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Tom Sweeney, President of the Willoughby Theatre Company says “Let’s Put on a Show!”
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SEP 8
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Chris Curtis spends a lot of time on Rotary projects in Indonesia. The projects themselves are interesting and so is the novel approach to international projects that Chris has developed. His talk “Short Steps to Progress” covers both themes in describing his recent tour of the Nusa Tenggara Timor small grants project. Learn, among other things, why other Rotary Clubs are joining Chris.
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Unspecified dates
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“A global epidemic”, “an economic disaster”, “medical solutions”, “social solutions”, “eat your greens like your mother told you”, “keep moving”, “act early, act purposefully”….. How many of these apply to diabetes? Professor Martin Silink AO, Emeritus President of the International Diabetes Federation, will bring us up to date.
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How good are Australia’s buildings? What makes them so: character, education, culture, regulation, economics….? John Palmer, as the founder, chairman and CEO of the Building Durability group of companies, with nearly 50 years’ experience in major projects in Australia and overseas knows more answers than most.
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The printing and distribution of information have undergone multiple revolutions in the last quarter of a century. Managing Director of The Mailing House, Lindsay May, makes some educated guesses on where it is all going.
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A few moments research discovers: “By far the largest engineering project ever undertaken in Australia”, “Australia’s greatest economic achievement in the decades following World War II”, “one of the most complex integrated water and hydro-electric power schemes in the world”. John Donald speaks from his study and personal experience of the Snow Mountains Scheme.
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