DG Michael Milston address
Posted on Aug 09, 2016
District Govenor Michael Milston addressed the club and presented the themes of Rotary for this
year, and his goals for the his coming year as leader of the District.
Michael paid his respect to the local Wiradjuri people and then gave us a brief history of his career
and life in Orange. He joined Rotary in 1995 and his partner Anne joined in 2015.
Michael presented the current Rotary International theme "Serving Humanity" and discussed the aim of
helping people in need and assisting them to develop to their full potential.
Michael report how close we to ending polio worldwide, but their is still work to be done.
Michael was keen to highlight the "Wiradjuri" connection of all the clubs in our district, and showed the new
district logo with the Wiradjuri totem goannas in a circle of community.
He noted we are failing to close the gap of disadvantage for aboriginal people and challenged us to do something
- to reach out to our local indigenous community
- to listen to aboriginal people and their stories.
- he showed the Four Way Test translated into Wiradjuri.
Michael stated his aim is to help clubs engage with the community and declared Poverty is man made and
can be fixed.
Michael reminded us the District Conference will be on in March 2017 in Orange.
Assistant District Governor Brian Short thanked Michael for his address.