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President Margaret's Notes
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Dear Rotarians
 
As the Rotary year comes to a close and I reflect on 2025-26 I am immensely grateful for the support I have received from our Board members but also from our membership as a whole. Your encouragement, quiet words of wise advice, some historical perspectives, patience with me and your good humour have made the role, through some challenging personal times, truly a pleasure. I hope I have learnt sufficiently to enable me to be more effective for Applecross Rotary through 2026-27.
 
So much has been achieved in so many areas by our hard-working membership that we deserve a hearty celebration. I hope we can all come together to acknowledge this next Sunday 12th July from 4.30pm at Gucce Pizzeria e Cucina Italiana, Ardross Street, Applecross.
 
Yours in Rotary celebrations
Margaret Brede
 

 
Guest Speaker; Dr Michael Creech

Host Gordan Dunbar & Dr Michael Creech

Mann Made Climate Change

Our speaker Dr Michael Creech told us that scientists like himself are over-represented as climate change skeptics. They are the keepers of inconvenient science.
There were more surprising revelations to follow, starting with dismantling Michael Mann’s infamous hockey stick graph.


Dr Creech gave us the science behind climate change with examples of Greenland two million years ago which was green and forested.  Greenland’s ice has melted many times over that period, all without the aid of man made industrial pollution.


The International Panel on Climate Change is not an impartial authority and built on a myth.
 

Closer to home, when Gina Rinehart addressed her old high school in 2021 about climate change, her speech was edited by the school and critics said she should stick to reputable science. Based on science based truths, she advised students to always search for the facts, not accept popularly held beliefs.
 

In 2007, Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, was discredited by a judge and found to be alarmist and exaggerated. The judge ruled it should not be allowed to be shown to schoolchildren in England.
 

Al Gore is not a scientist, he is a politician. Similarly, Australian politician Chris Bowen’s comment that climate change deniers should be given facts by the rest of us is equally false.
 

“Mann” Made Climate Change is climate misinformation. It is causing today’s youth climate anxiety.
 

Science tests an idea or hypothesis by assessing all available facts, including new evidence, making useful predictions and allowing for one prediction to prove the idea false. All facts must be empirical and real world data; a peer review should ensure that all these tests have been met and the theory must always be open to challenge and scrutiny. There should be no abusive name calling. In other words, facts work.
 

Einstein once said: 100 scientists will not prove a theory true – it takes just one fact.
 

How many times have we heard that climate change is catastrophic? But has it happened yet?
 

Turtles have lived for 200 million years, in temperatures 15 degrees warmer than today. Polar bears have lived one million years; and humans 100,000 years in temperatures 4deg warmer than today.
 

CO2 and temperature dance to two different tunes. There is no correlation. CO2 is a symptom of climate change, not a cause. Solar cycles are the primary driver of climate change.
In 1992, 40,000 scientists signed a petition against the theory of MMCC. But misinformation is still out there.
 

Members learnt a lot about the science behind climate change in a mere 40 minutes. Personally speaking, it made me feel a lot better about our human race history and effect on our beautiful earth. 

 

Click here to download handout available for those attending my talk and is for private use only. It is not intended for publication or sale. Only to educate and challenge.



 

Rotary: Where Friendship Becomes Everything

l-r Chris Dawson (30), George Mavros (35), Lorri Brazier (23), Ray Philp (25), Kenn Williams (29), Gordon Dunbar (26), John Kelly (38), John Henderson (50), Mal Taylor (30)*

How wonderful for a group of AxR old mates of John Henderson to catch up with him over lunch on the 1st of July, chatting over a lot of history, and yet with an eye for tomorrow. 

John, a Life Member of Applecross and well into his mid 90's, and despite having lost the love of his life, Helen some time back, remains as bright as ever and is great company. 

The one thing that stuck in my mind was his comments about how important Rotary has been in his life, and the enduring and strong friendships that he has made as a result.

 I surely hope that when/ if my time leads me into my 90's, I too can have my well built Rotary relationships take me out for a meal or a drink every now and then and help retain one of the hidden values of being a member of our club truly alive! 

As the clock ticks, we must never under value the benefits of true friendships and the happy state of mind it helps create.

*The numbers next to the names are years of service that adds up to 286 years. We look forward to celebrating John Henderson's 50 year Rotary anniversary in November


 

 

A Huge Shoutout for Our RYE HOST FAMILIES!

As we prepare to farewell Essi, we extend our heartfelt thanks to her wonderful host families and to All Saints’ College for opening their doors to our outstanding Rotary Youth Exchange student.

Together with our recent RYE student Valentin — who stays in regular contact with the club and is currently performing impressively in our AFL Footy Tipping competition — we have been incredibly fortunate to sponsor two exceptional young ambassadors. Essi and Valentin have represented Rotary Youth Exchange, their home countries (Finland and Germany respectively), and their sponsoring Rotary clubs with maturity, enthusiasm, and genuine goodwill.

Their presence has enriched our club, strengthened our international connections, and reminded us of the powerful impact Rotary Youth Exchange continues to have across cultures and generations.

 

Essi with her host families

 

Essi receiving her RYE completion certificate from DG Veronica Lawrance

 

Essi with Graeme Fardon District RYE Placement Officer

 

            

Essi and her badges!

 

Essi's Day 1


 

 

Start collecting your wine bottles!

 


 

THE 2026-2027 theme

Create Lasting Impact, encourages all of us, as people of action, to work together to make a meaningful difference in our communities and around the world. It builds on the ways in which members have strengthened their connections to each other and to their communities to Unite for Good, the 2025-26 message.

Meeting Duties 7 July 2026
CHAIRPERSON
BREDE, Margaret
 
MC
FARDON, Graeme
 
RECEPTION
HAEUSLER, Tony
 
HOST:
 
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Breakfast Meeting Invitation 7 July 2026
Jul 07, 2026
7:30 am – 8:30 am
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Jul 11, 2026
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Jul 12, 2026
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Jul 14, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
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Jul 28, 2026
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Fremantle Tour Guide

Within six months of the Swan River Colony being founded in 1829, Fremantle had four hotels. The saying “if these walls could talk" especially applies to old pubs. Over the years, pubs have given Fremantle a rich and colourful social history.

Historian, tour guide, author and speaker Allen Graham has written a book about the hotels and social fabric of Fremantle from 1829 to 1929, called The Inns and Outs of Fremantle. 

Jul 14, 2026 7:30 AM
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