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Our guest speaker of last week, Gill Basnett is one of two persons working for Tamar NRM. (Natural Resource Management.) Gill pointed out that Tamar NRM is not to be confused with NRM North, which is a larger organisation, and which receives substantial federal...

Will is a Launceston Chiropractor. He opened his talk by asking those present what is the leading cause of disability in Australia—the answer is lower back pain. The leading cause of death in this country is cardio-vascular disease, followed by cancer. Current...

Our NYSF student, Belinda Kavic addressed our meeting last week. She said that attendance at the NYSF in Canberra in January this year was quite opposite to hear expectation before she attended. She thought it would basically involve mostly classroom teaching, Instead...

Our website manager, Rotarian Dennis Tulk introduced our new website at last week’s meeting. Dennis said that the re-design of the website was necessitated by the need for security updates and to facilitate google search requirements to provide mobile preference,...

Tom Harrison from the Harrison Humpreys Real Estate firm in Launceston was our guest speaker last week . Tom and his friend Ben Humpreys bought the business from their respective fathers a few years ago. Tom’s father Rob has been a Rotarian, so Tom said he was quite...

Bec is the Community Development Officer for the PCYC, which is now a separate organisation from the police, although they still have a significant input into its operations. Its programs still have focus on youth at risk. However, it runs a number of fee-paying...

Our own member Les Baxter was the guest speaker. He gave an overview of his time in Bhutan. During that time Les was an Agricultural consultant, working specifically on a dis-ease in their citrus crop called 'Citrus Greening Disease' which had the potential to have a...