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Rotary District 9600 Governor-elect Neil Black<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

March 12, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hundreds of Rotarians will be heading to Kingaroy next year – and between $500,000 and $750,000 pumped into the local economy – thanks to local businessman Neil Black.<\/p>\n

Neil will be sworn in as District Governor of Rotary District 9600 in June.<\/p>\n

As District Governor-elect, Neil has the privilege of selecting the venue for Rotary’s next District Conference so he’s selected his hometown of Kingaroy.<\/p>\n

District 9600 includes part of south-east Queensland as well as Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Nauru.<\/p>\n

An estimated 300 to 600 delegates from across this region and beyond – including members of the Rotary Nomads E-Club – will be travelling to Kingaroy for the event.<\/p>\n

Conference chairman Tim Keeler told southburnett.com.au<\/strong> the conference would be held from March 26-28, 2021, at Kingaroy State High School and KPAC.<\/p>\n

The opening night welcome, on the Friday, will be at the Bjelke-Petersen property, ‘Bethany’.<\/p>\n

The official opening will be held on Saturday morning, with local councillors and Federal and State MPs as invited guests.<\/p>\n

The conference dinner – featuring local foods and South Burnett wines – will be held in Kingaroy Town Hall.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The conference is going to be a real boost for the local economy,” Tim said.<\/p>\n

He said Kingaroy had been chosen, not only because it was Neil’s home town but because Rotary realised the region had been doing it tough in recent years through drought.<\/p>\n

“We know that economic conditions have not been good,” he said.<\/p>\n

The conference was being organised so that other local service clubs and organisations would also benefit.<\/p>\n

“For example, the high school P&C are looking after all the lunches and morning and afternoon teas,” he said.<\/p>\n

Local caterers will be used at the dinner, and local buses will be used to ferry Rotary partners to various activities and tourist spots as part of the “Partners’ Program”.<\/p>\n

Tim said he had been involved in organising Rotary conferences for many years but had never had so much local support from a community.<\/p>\n

“More than $20,000 in prizes have been donated locally for the raffle, including a Mitsubishi Mirage ES by Mark and Margaret Huston, from Dundas Mitsubishi,” Tim said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He said he was leading a team of 17 local residents – not all Rotarians – organising the event.<\/p>\n

The theme will be “Outside The Box”, challenging Rotarians and others in the community to think “outside the box” when looking for solutions to issues such as youth suicide.<\/p>\n

Guest speakers will include Tamsyn Rosenberg, who founded “Alive”, a program designed to end youth suicide in Australia.<\/p>\n

“Tamsyn has put 65,000 Queensland children through the Alive program, and they haven’t lost one of these kids,” Tim said.<\/p>\n

Other guest speakers already pencilled in include journalist and author Rick Morton – whose advocacy on behalf of mental health programs encouraged the Federal Government to include more funds in its Budgets – and Stephanie Woollard OAM, a young Australian who founded the Nepal-based social enterprise Seven Women at the age of 22 which has improved the lives of thousands of Nepalese women.<\/p>\n

Tony Dee, who was the face of the 2016 Rio Paralympics, will also be a guest as well as Murgon-born actor, author and film director Leah Purcell.<\/p>\n

The conference will also be an historic event as it will be the last District 9600 conference because Rotary is undergoing a structural reorganisation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“It was also probably be the last time we can have a Rotary conference in Kingaroy as the new ‘super District’ being formed will have close to 3000 members and a conference would swamp a town the size of Kingaroy,” Tim said.<\/p>\n

The last Rotary conference held in Kingaroy was about 20 years ago when Neil’s father, the late Ray Black, was District Governor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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