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I am your representative in the Australian Parliament. I can help with issues like Medicare, Centrelink, aged care and pensions, the NDIS, Veterans’ Affairs and community grants. I can also arrange special birthday and anniversary messages, and information for pensioners and seniors. You can contact me on 4423 1782.

30. Finnish: small room used as a hot air or steambath

31. Flat cutting edge of a knife

32. Cupboard with shelves or drawers

34. New National Party member, elected President of NSW Legislative Council

36. Ties, collars, scarves, shawls etc (4,4)

38. Animal slaughterhouse

41. How old would Joe Biden be at the end of second term if re-elected (6,3)

42. Complete list of items, typically one in alphabetical or other systematic order

44. PM in power when voting age lowered from 21 to 18

45. Aust pension age if one is born after 1st Jan 1957

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22. Abominable, execrable, abhorrent, repugnant; invidious, loathsome

3. Physiognomy. Study of people’s facial features or expressions.

4. What they call Peanut Butter in QLD. Peanut -----

5. Noah’s boat

6. First name of Aust One day Cricket Captain who told his brother to bowl underarm to NZ team.

8. First name of Barry Humphries’ alter ego

9. Viking with red hair. Aka ---- the Red

11. Age one has to be to have a beer in one’s hand in licenced premises

12. Age at which one can get one’s provisional driver’s licence

15. Minimum prison sentence in months before one is disqualified from voting while in prison

16. Name of the St George Illawarra team

17. Highest court in NSW established in 1823

22. How old must one be prior to one’s first solo flight in an aircraft

23. First country in the world to allow women the vote AND to stand for parliament from 12th June 1922

24. Feeling of uncertainty or lack of conviction

26. French President who advised an Aust TV reporter, “I don’t think, I know.”

29. First woman elected to Aust House of Reps in 1943

30. Style of knife and women’s high heel shoe

33. The age one become a teenager

35. Qld Police commissioner placed in jail for corruption, who recently died aged 95

37. Noun (obsolete). Property, as distinguished from rent or income.

39. Monetary unit in Gambia

40. Top court in Australia

43. What every English TV constable calls his boss

Crossword compiled by Steve Law.

Kiama Bridge Club

Wednesday evening sessions have now recommenced at our clubhouse by Bonaira Oval, from 6 30pm

For more information, call Ruth on 0404 871 216

Pattern glare and tinted lenses

Tinted lenses can be very helpful for people who experience what is called pattern glare. This can be associated with various conditions like concussion or whiplash, people who experience photosensitive migraine, photosensitive epilepsy, and a rare condition called visual snow. They can also help reading performance in people who experience moving and jumping words who have been diagnosed with dyslexia.

An excellent summary of the scientific evidence of this can be found on the Australasian College of Behavioural Optometrists website. Unfortunately, the use of tinted lenses in people with reading problems is very controversial. This may be due to the fact that whilst there is no evidence to support the use of tinted lenses to treat reading problems and dyslexia in isolation, some of those people will have pattern glare and will gain benefit. I assess for benefit of tint through subjective means, but also objectively by measuring changed rate of reading. Sometimes the reading rate improvement can be as high as 30%, and absolutely life changing.

If you have any concerns about your eye health then give us a call to make an appointment.

Jean Anderson