Vocational Service Award

This week we present the Vocational Services Award to and . These two outstanding candidates were selected from a strong field and on this occasion, two people are to receive the 2011 award.

Anne Henderson is Deputy Director of The Institute, edits The Sydney Papers and co-edits Quarterly. She is the author of a number 7 Jun of non fiction books including From All Corners: Six Migrant Stories , Getting Even: Women MPs on Life, Power and Politics, and An Angel in The Court – The Life of 2011 Major Joyce Harmer.

In 2008, she published a biography of Dame Enid Lyons, Enid Lyons – Leading Lady to a Nation (Pluto Press). Among her essays of note are “Dad’s Wake” in Fathers: In Writing and the biographical chapter on Prime Minister Joe Lyons for Australian Prime Ministers (ed ) and the UK’s New Dictionary of National Biography (OUP).

Gerard Henderson is executive director of The Sydney Institute, a forum for debate and discussion on a range of topics. He became a columnist initially for (1987-1989) and in 1990 for the Sydney Morning Herald and has filed his column every week since then.

Over the past two years, Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch Dog blog has come out on Fridays (after lunch) with a little help from his canine Nancy. The blog is devoted to upsetting as many media types as possible (especially leftist sandal-wearers) and to shaming Bob Ellis into paying the remaining $500 he owes the author for failed punditry.

Gerard Henderson has written histories on the Liberal Party and the Catholic Church in along with policy analysis and social commentary. He has appeared regularly on the ABC TV Insiders program since 2002.

Presentation of a cheque to NSW Police Legacy being the proceeds from the NSW Police Officer of the Year Awards held at the Shangri-La hotel last November. The cheque will be accepted by the Chair of NSW Police Legacy, Superin- tendent Sue Waites APM, Police Commander Kings Cross.

Sue Waites joined the NSW Police Force In 1982 at the age of 19.

During her 28 years as a police officer Sue has served in the Sydney metropolitan area and is currently the Police Commander at Kings Cross. In 2010 Sue was awarded the Australian Police Medal (which is equivalent to the Order of Australia) for distinguished service.

Sue is the current Chair of NSW Police Legacy. She has volunteered her service to Police Legacy consistently for the past 22 years and has participated and managed children’s camps for the last 17 years; giving up her annual leave to take the children away.

Sue has been enthusiastically involved in organising and managing various fund-raising events for NSW Police Legacy and for the last 17 years has been an active Legator supporting many elderly Police widows.

Today’s Program  Vocational Service Award;  Police of the Year cheque presentation.

ROTARY CLUB OF SYDNEY The Rotary Club of Sydney meets every Tuesday at AUSTRALIA 12:30pm, Cello Room, 4th Floor, Castlereagh Hotel, 169 Castlereagh Street, Sydney.

PRESIDENT: Roslyn McLeod OAM Rotary District 9750, Club # 18206, PRESIDENT ELECT: Ned Boyce chartered 1st May 1921 District Governor: David Brawn VICE PRESIDENT: James Allen SECRETARY: Alex Shaw The Rotary Club of Sydney, GPO Box 1523, TREASURER: Peter Blythe Sydney, NSW 2001, Tel. +612 8014 8073

HAPPY TOPICS 1. The thoughts for the day at the May 24 meeting were appropriate for the occasion: “We make a living by what we get...but we make a life by what we give” - Winston Churchill “The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive” - Albert Einstein David Hunt later remarked that a capital gift equivalent to that donated by Mr and Mrs Soukup would enable the doubling of the scholarship program or the establishment of a new program.

2. President Elect Ned Boyce was invited to the Rotary Club of 90th Birthday Dinner. Because Melbourne was the first Rotary Club in Australia it also celebrated 90 Years of Rotary here. Ned reported that the dinner was an elegant and formal affair at the Melbourne Cricket Ground Pavilion and was attended by the Governor-General and her husband. With the presence of the Vice Regal party it was inappropriate to have fund raising. Thirty-eight clubs and 400 persons attended including the Rotary Club of Osaka Japan. The Osaka Club has the distinction of secretly meeting throughout WW2 even though Rotary was prohibited by the wartime government. The Melbourne Club has 250 members and the Rotary Club of Melbourne meets at 12.40pm on Wednesdays at the old Windsor Hotel, Collins St.

3. Our Service & Awards Director Rotarian Rob Funke just returned from the Rotary Club of New York (Manhattan) and brought back the best wishes from its’ 140 members.

4. The Guessing Competition at our own 90th Birthday Function at the NSW Art Gallery has a few winners: Col Westman, Peter Blythe, Ross Colquhoun, Indi Singh, Rex Doughty. Enjoy the prizes Fellows!!!!!

5. . The MegaSwim for MS is coming up on 25-26 June. We have a team the “Tumbleturns” for the 24 hour relay. There are 31 teams already listed. MegaSwim has enough swimmers, but needs some volunteers to help organisation for the day. If you can help go on the web site www.megaswim.com.

LAST WEEK: Peter Achterstraat, the Auditor General of NSW told us about the task of checking on 492 government departments in NSW!!!! There are 9 major departments such as Public Works, Transport, Health (in old speak), but then a lot of smaller ones such as individual universities (10) and others.

He says one cannot audit a business unless you know how it works. As a result he goes off to visit and learn. These visits include schools, power stations, prisons, water supply authorities etc.

So that he can audit without fear or favour, Peter has tenure meaning that he cannot be fired except by a joint sitting of Parliament directing his dismissal by the Governor, who is his boss. But he reports to Parliament.

Parliament or Members or Directors General can ask the Auditor to check on a department or a particular matter, but the Auditor has the decision on which he does. To accommodate these requests Peter’s department can only do 12 performance checks per year, given the 492 other audits that have to be done. The decision on which of the 12 performance checks are done is usually based on suspicion or evidence of a systemic failure in the particular organisation, rather than an individual problem. There is the ICAC for corruption or the police for criminality.

The main differences between a private auditing firm and the Auditor General are:

 The AG’s answers to Parliament, the private auditor answers to a Board or an individual.  The AG’s does not have to insure for its professional conduct, a private auditor does.  The AG’s does not advise on future policy, it can only audit something that has been done. A private auditor can advise a client on future strategies AND do an audit provided there is a “Chinese Wall” between the staff who give the advice and the staff who do the audit.  The AG cannot comment on existing government policy eg: whether spending money on something is a good idea, whereas a private auditor can comment on corporate policy.  The AG itself is audited by an independent auditor usually from another State.

Birthdays this week What’s for Lunch? Main Pan-fried Qld barramundi fillet on potato mash, broccolini & almond John Given butter

Dessert Robert Mitchell Wild berry pancake with warm chocolate sauce & fresh cream

Gordon Mackenzie Vegetarian Potato gnocchi in Neapolitana sauce James Allen Salad Caesar salad with prawns and poached egg

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Happy Rotarians and Guests

Ken Patteson, Indy Singh, Guest Speaker Peter Russell Galt (Inductee), President Roslyn McLeod Achterstraat, Glenn Wran & John Given OAM, James Condon (Inductee) & Glenn Wran

Kevin Hoffman, Karen Loblay & Herman Elsenberg Henry Ye, Alex Shaw & Ron Dunk

John Rawson & Andrew Laurie Ned Boyce & Robert Mitchell Robert Funke & Tony Benner

Please send your news for the Bulletin to Kev Hoffman, Bulletin Editor and PR , Jennifer Kwok Bulletin Production and PR

at: [email protected]

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Our Sponsors for 2010/2011

Lunch Speakers GOLD SPONSORS Coming Up!

7 Jun Vocational Service Award

14 Jun Geraldine Doogue, Australian journalist and broadcaster

21 Jun President Roslyn’s “Year in Review” SILVER SPONSORS 28 Jun Changeover Day

5 Jul Martijn Wilder, Partner Baker & McKenzie

19 Jul Peter Coates, Chairman of Santos Limited

2 Aug Ross Babbage, Chairman of Kokoda Foundation

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8 Jun Rotarian Means Business 6 pm-7:30pm at 2nd Floor 169 Castlereagh Street, Sydney

25-26Jun MS Mega Swim Our Supporters for 2010/2011 28 Jun Changeover Day

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