Last Wednesday, Angie Bell MP, Federal Member for Moncrieff and Shadow Minister for the Environment, Shadow Minister for Youth, and Shadow Minister for the Arts (yes, ask her what she does in her spare time... ☺), honoured our club with her visit to Surfers Sunrise Rotary. And, with her usual aplomb, she carried the room. Over the years, Angie has been instrumental in facilitating our club's projects, including liaising with relevant government authorities in Vanuatu for the X-Ray Unit at Mauna Health Centre our club built on Pentecost Island. Did you know that, at age 17, she was a Rotary Youth Exchange Student to Denmark? There was no doubt in her enthusiasm for the YE project and how much of a difference that made for her! It set her on course. One of the "cherries on the pie": Just imagine: welcoming Danish Royalty, accompanied by a large number of "heavy lifters" from that EU nation, and greeting the visitors in their own language. And what was the theme of her speech? As one would expect, she forcefully advocated the policies and views from the Opposition's side of the Treasury benches. However, since Rotary is strictly non-political, forgive me for not elaborating on details.
Photo: Angie with Graeme Isaacson, who gave a very elegant vote of thanks, (left) and President Paul Seymour.