Guest Speaker  was Bob Aitken, the roving ambassador for Australian Rotary Health

In an enthusiastic talk he outlined the amazing work that ARH has done since its inception some 30 years ago by Ian Scott, who decided that we needed to have more access to medical research funds. He was particularly touched by the high incidence of Cot Death and proceeded to raise funds. Australian Rotary Health was born.

In that thirty years we have raised and spent more than 33 million dollars, all of which has gone into Australian medical research .

The current area of focus is Mental Health, and Bob mentioned two frightening statistics, the first being that one person in five will suffer some mental problem in their lives; the second that suicide outnumbers road fatalities. We need to find out the factors so that we can reduce the incidence of self harm. Another amazing statistic is that 17000 people were badly enough affected by mental torture that they attempted suicide!!

Bob urged us to keep up our support, and suggested that some may like to become private donors. The work is important, very important.