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Editor’s note

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t’s hard to imagine that in a First World country, growing older and retiring from the workforce could mean homelessness, but that’s the grim reality for many older Australians, especially women.

Call me old-fashioned, but I think there was always an expectation that, like our parents before us, having your own home and a guaranteed pension would be enough for a secure old age.

Not so, despite the wails of Gen X and the Millennials that they have been left the scraps after the Baby Boomers partied with their future.

A recent report by the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre found a clear trend that older Australians are now falling out of home ownership and resorting to renting.

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Contents Almost one-third of Australians are tenants; and among them, more than a quarter of those aged 65 and over have been in the private rental market for less than five years.

The report found that tenants aged 55 and over spent 63 per cent of their gross income on rent.

Societal change has seen to it that there’s no longer much option for granny to move in with the kids.

That’s what retirement villages and care homes are for.

And with a generation of women who didn’t have a lot of access to superannuation schemes because it was their job to stay at home and raise the family, it’s coming up to crunch time.

This is compounded by divorce statistics that have seen the pots put aside for retirement being split up, while at the same time science is working ever harder at keeping us alive and in charge of our senses.

Where does it end?

Russell Hunter this month investigates the situation and how it is being addressed.

Oh, for a simpler time.

Dorothy Whittington, Editor

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FEATURE STORY

There’s no place like home An aged pension system not designed to cover mortgage payments or rent, coupled with falling home ownership rates, is behind the growing housing crisis for older Australians.

RUSSELL HUNTER investigates.

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lder Australians are falling off the housing ladder and face spending their retirement as renters, with the situation expected to worsen for coming generations, the New Daily reports, citing the Grattan Institute’s recently launched Grattan Retirement Incomes Model.

“Falling home ownership rates among younger generations means many more retirees in future won’t own their homes,” GRIM states.

Older Australians are one of the fastest-growing groups of renters in

Australia, and in 2015-16 there were 102,600 lower-income households aged 65 or over in the private rental market, according to ABS estimates.

While home ownership rates are falling fastest among the young and the poor, we’re also seeing a “tsunami of falling home ownership” among those in their late 40s to early 60s, according to the Grattan Institute senior policy adviser Brendan Coates.

“Our current retirement system is predicated on the assumption that most people will own their own homes. That

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Older women are most vulnerable to falling out of home ownership and into the cut-throat rental market, or homelessness, experts say.

A recent survey of more than 4000 Australian workers conducted by the Australian Services Union found that the median superannuation balance for women immediately before retirement was less than $80,000, which is estimated to fund less than three years of retirement.

Men fared slightly better, with an average superannuation balance estimated to fund five and a half years of retirement.

There are a number of “key life triggers” such as job loss, divorce, and illness that cause older Australians to “tumble out of home ownership”, according to Curtin University housing and population ageing expert Rachel Ong. Unlike younger people who are better able to bounce back from “adverse life events”, older people “find it very difficult to make their way back into home ownership”, Professor Ong said.

“We need to adapt our retirement income system to acknowledge the reality of falling home ownership,” Mr Coates said.

“Even if politicians do everything in their power, falling home ownership is baked in, so we need to make a retirement income system that treats people more fairly whether they’re a home owner or a renter.”

Commonwealth Rent Assistance will need to be boosted by up to 30 per cent in order to ensure retirees who rent have an “adequate or comfortable retirement”, Mr Coates said.

Changing tenancy laws to improve renters’ rights is also key to ensuring Australians of all ages can afford a home.

Landlords can currently evict renters for no specified reason, creating a situation where renters may have to bear the brunt of moving costs at short notice.

“Renters need to make their house a home,” Mr Coates said.

However, for pensioners and many others on fixed incomes “the private rental market is just inappropriate”, Mr Patterson-Ross said.

Instead, such demographics require “market-proof housing”, such as social and public housing “to ensure people can be protected from the market where they’re not able to compete”.

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FEATURE STORY

Next generation sharehousing Women get a raw deal during their working lives and come retirement time, they confront the frightening reality that their money will run out before they do, writes RUSSELL HUNTER

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ll available data and research point to a gender gap that shows no signs of closing. Women are in general paid less than their male counterparts for equal work. They frequently have interrupted careers due to family commitments.

And they live longer.

So, on retirement, women – in particular single women – tend to have less in their super accounts.

Housing, then, becomes critical.

Women who need to rent are extremely vulnerable. And that’s where at least one not-for-profit organisation has identified a role.

With State Government support Better Together operates, for now, mainly on the Sunshine Coast and provides a service that matches women who can team up to rent shared accommodation.

As Better Together’s Gail Middleton explains, the best a retiree can hope for on the pension is $500 a week. An average two-bedroom home will cost $300 to $320 a week in rent. That leaves about $180 for bills and food.

The stories of women staying in bed because they can’t afford the power bills are not myths.

But the numbers – daunting as they are – don’t tell the whole story.

“Women living alone on the pension risk being isolated from their communities,” says Ms Middleton. “They stay home because they can’t afford to go out which give little or no opportunity for interaction.

“They can’t accept invitations because they can’t afford to take a bottle of wine with them, for example.”

Having spent half a lifetime in the

quest for affordable housing, Ms Middleton says throwing more money at the issue isn’t necessarily the only answer.

“We’re always looking for solutions,” she says.

And one of these has been shared accommodation.

“People have talked about the potential of shared housing for a long time. But now we are trying to match people – and this can be quite risky. For instance, the women who we’ve discussed this with neither need nor want advisers.”

At the same time, the need for such a service very obviously exists. People on fixed incomes can and do find themselves in difficult situations in regard to housing.

So Better Together seeks to match women who not only may benefit from pooling their resources but who are likely to be compatible.

“The participants need to be involved in the process,” says Ms Middleton. “They need to be involved in all facets of the organisation.”

The Better Together program looks mainly at 2 and 3 bedroom homes. That’s primarily because bigger homes tend to cost considerably higher rents putting them out of reach of even pooled incomes.

“Two or maybe three people each with an income of $300 a week can do quite well,” she says. “But it’s really up to the participants. We help them draw up a co-tenancy agreement containing, among other things, a grievance procedure.”

In that way all tenants know their rights and responsibilities.

“This program is for average everyday women,” says Ms Middleton. “They’re not welfare dependent and they’re quite capable of running their own lives.”

The Better Together program allows potential clients to browse each other other’s profiles on its website while also carrying out extensive background checks to ensure that only genuine inquiries get past the first stage.

And the rate of inquiry shows that women in their golden years can see the program’s benefits.

WOMEN ARE WORKING better together BETTER Together Housing (BTH) has been created by two leading charities on the Sunshine Coast to address the rising cost of living and the risk of social isolation facing single women over 55 years old living alone.

It is a new concept that will be evaluated at the end of the year, with the intention of expanding the service to the broader community.

BTH is a platform for participants to find someone to share with, it does not provide housing but does link people together who are interested in sharing their home, so that they can reap the benefits of a shared housing situation.

Interested people are invited to register to either share their home or find someone with whom to share a home.

The project aims to promote companionship, affordability and peace of mind for women over 55.

“You are in control,” its website tells prospective clients.

“We will not match you with another person. We believe that you can make those decisions yourself if you have the right information to start with.”

From there the program proceeds with: • Undertaking reference and police checks on all participants • Requiring those sharing their home to offer similar security of tenure to those of the private rental system.

• Having participants sharing using the free Better Together support services if the relationship is not working as expected within the first six months of being established. bettertogetherhousing.com.au

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Letters

RE: Language Watch (YT Oct). The article was opened with a true and reasonable statement. “Recent discussions about the use of gender-neutral language have sparked some serious debate on the issue.” Last month, several people with opposing views at least put their arguments logically and intelligently and assisted a real debate on the issue.

Unfortunately, this month it has all gone downhill from there. What a pity that people who refuse to consider another point of view to their own descend into ridicule and absurdity in an attempt to trivialise an issue.

The linguistic contortionism from A. Blackburn serves only to reinforce his wife’s assertion that … he probably does need therapy!

Georgina Whallin

ROMA Hines’ story (YT Sept) has prompted me to reflect on my wartime experience, when my brother and I were evacuated to the bush for half of 1942.

We lived in an inner suburb of Sydney, a family of three boys and a baby girl in a smallish house. When things were going very badly on every

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allied front, Japan bombed Pearl Harbour, and serious rationing of food and fuel commenced.

In those days, many city families had relations in the country, and as it was thought to be much cheaper to raise kids in rural settings, thousands of school-age children were sent off to live in country towns or on relatives’ properties.

Our parents saw fit to despatch my brother and me to my uncle’s dairy farm 10 miles from Tumut down Wagga Wagga way. While the Japanese army expanded into PNG and its air force blitzed Darwin and Broome, we city kids remained oblivious.

Aged just 8 and 6, we certainly benefited from the experience. Our relatives were quite understanding and were prepared to overlook our ignorance of country life. Uncle and Auntie accepted the burden of two extra children, and we all got on with life.

My little brother and I did get homesick. I remember how pleased we were when our father showed up in the May school holidays, proving that we had not been abandoned.

Our young cousins had daily duties

in the dairy twice a day, seven days a week. I was amazed how attached they were to their charges, the jersey cows.

Of course, we two city slickers were teased a bit, being outnumbered by our country cousins. I remember being corrected for pronouncing “garage” wrongly, told that I should accent the second syllable.

Sydney and World War II were a world away, but John and I had not forgotten our previous life, and when we got into trouble we considered seriously walking 300 miles to Sydney. We figured if we stuck to the rail track which passed through the farm we could not get lost. After staring into the dark down the rail track, we took the other option and retreated to the warm shared bed on the verandah, to cry ourselves to sleep.

On the wireless we got to know the hillbilly songs of Shirley Toms and Buddy Williams and Wilf Carter. Our grandparents who lived on the property had a gramophone. Peter Dawson and Gladys Moncrieff were popular.

Enrolled in the local school, we soon got to absorb the culture. The male

teacher had joined up and was replaced

by Miss Webb, who rode a bicycle to school. Many of her pupils rode ponies.

John and I walked. The one-teacher school had an enrolment of fewer than 20 pupils, aged five to 15, and the teenage boys were a bit of a problem.

They would have preferred to be doing farmwork or going after rabbits which were in plague numbers.

Most boys set rabbit traps each day and made pocket-money selling skins.

At times the countryside was covered with rabbits, despite kangaroo dogs, trapping and baiting, and the use of ferrets. This was just before myxamatosis provided the best remedy.

On my 9th birthday, the Jap midget submarine entered Sydney Harbour and caused a bit of damage.

When we were returned to our Sydney family and resumed school I was relieved to find that I could still compete.

Despite the big task Miss Webb faced, we each got a fair share of her attention.

On the whole the local children were very tolerant of us intruders from the city.

Hugh Naughton

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Before I finish my grizzles, why do they take things I love off the menu?

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Mocco Wollert KATE Callahan’s article on the power of music across the generations struck a chord with me. Music is the universal language of soul. The decades of music and song since World War I, have given us all great pleasure and a legacy of tunes and songs which still delight.

America’s big bands and swooners left teens in the ’50s thirsty for a change.

Dell Shannon began a revolution which carried through to the ’60s. The Beach Boys appealed to our surfer culture. But with Donovan’s prophetic words: “The times they are a changing” came the revolution in pop music and the rise of boy bands such as the Beatles.

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TIME WARP

When a woman’s place was in the home You don’t need to be a demographer or a statistician to know that women generally spend more time out of the workforce for family reasons than men, writes KATE CALLAHAN, but nevertheless, we have come a long way.

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n the 1960s, discrimination against women in the workplace was rampant.

Only 18 per cent of married women worked and only one in every 10 workers was a married woman.

Why? Because until 1966, women employed in the Australian public service were faced with a choice that is beyond comprehension today.

The “marriage bar” required women to give up their jobs once they married, which meant they resigned quietly, were marched out the door or tried to hide their marital status.

Unions weren’t interested in advocating for them. In fact, some of the unions were among the strongest supporters of the bar. You have to look after the blokes after all, don’t you?

Single women were also affected by the marriage bar. There was no point wasting training and development opportunities on single women – they were only going to get married and leave work.

There were some limited exceptions that allowed women to return as temporary staff but the jobs available to them were those regarded by men as unsuitable for men, such as typing.

According to Robert Parker, an expert in public service recruitment in the 1940s and beyond, women were “more adaptable to monotonous work than men”.

(Perhaps that’s why we’re so good at housework!)

Men didn’t need to fear the ignominy of a female boss. No, siree! Temporary female staff were not permitted to hold supervisory positions, so their careers effectively stalled.

As if the marriage bar wasn’t enough, women struggled under the weight of other reigning prejudices. According to an unwritten moral edict of the time, a woman’s place was in the home and by accepting employment, she was somehow evading her domestic responsibilities.

These were the days when domestic science books advised a woman to put on a pretty frock, a fresh apron and some lipstick to greet her husband upon his return from a hard day’s work.

For those women who failed to acknowledge their rightful domestic place, there was a further disincentive to work – unequal pay for the sexes. Women were paid less than men for the same work.

Sound fair?

Oddly enough, the impetus for change

had nothing to do with employment conditions or pay, but everything to do with women being banned from public bars.

In those days, it was okay for a woman – a barmaid, no less – to serve alcohol in a public bar, but she couldn’t drink there.

No way! Women were relegated to the lounge, where drink prices were higher.

In 1965, two audacious women, Merle Thornton and Rosalie Bogner, chained themselves to the public bar of the Regatta Hotel in Brisbane to protest against this discriminatory ban.

Thornton, who had been forced to resign from her job at the ABC part way through her first pregnancy after

concealing her marriage for two years, established the Equal Opportunities for Women Association.

The primary goal of the EOW was the abolition of the marriage bar. The time was ripe for change.

In November 1966, the Public Service Act was amended to allow women public servants to retain their permanent status upon marriage and for married women to be appointed to permanent positions within the public service.

Within four years, all Australian states had lifted their marriage bars, greatly increasing the number of experienced women remaining within the nursing and teaching professions, which was good news for patients and students.

The gender pay gap remains stubbornly stuck in double digits so there is still some way to go before women are competing on a truly level playing field.

But before we bemoan the current state of play, it’s always worth reflecting on the past and acknowledging the profound advances that have been made in the past 50 years.

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FREE RETIREMENT LIVING SEMINAR EXPLAINS RIGHTS NEW laws to protect the rights of older Queenslanders who live in retirement villages will be explained at a free education session hosted by National Seniors Australia.

An investigation by the ABC’s Four Corners program last year found residents in retirement villages were being left vulnerable to exploitation by loopholes in legislation.

Many older people were being locked into increasing fees and charges, including exit fees. The Queensland government introduced new laws to enforce simplified contracts and require ongoing fees and charges to be clearly declared upfront.

It also introduced a minimum 21 days to evaluate the contract before signing and limited the time for payment of a resident’s exit entitlements to 18 months.

The new consumer protection laws

assist current, former and future retirement village residents and manufactured home owners.

National Seniors Chief Advocate Ian Henschke said the advocacy organisation had been calling for stronger consumer protections for years to help older people avoid the many pitfalls of retirement villages.

Mr Henschke urged retirement village and manufactured home residents to attend one of the free education sessions to ensure they understood their rights and the protections the new laws offered.

The National Seniors education session will be on November 29, 10am-11.30am at Brisbane Square Library, 266 George St, Brisbane.

Registrations for the free event is essential. Call 1300 76 50 50 or visit nationalseniors.com.au/rlo

ACCC WARNS OF CHARITY SCAMS THE ACCC’s Scamwatch has received 689 reports of fake charities scams with more than $320,000 in reported losses this year.

This compares with $313,563 for the whole of 2017. Fake charities operate in a number of different ways, it warns.

Scammers may approach people on the street posing as a monk or at the front door. They may also set up fake websites which look similar to those operated by

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real charities. Some may call or email for donations and in response to a real disaster or emergency, such as the drought.

They may also impersonate real charities such as the Red Cross, RSPCA, or Rural Fire Service.

“It’s important people are aware of these scams and take precautions to ensure their money is going to a genuine charity,” the ACCC said. Visit scamwatch.gov.au

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Memoir of a Baby Boomer Downsizing gave Dennis Harrison the chance to tell his story, one that will resonate with many who grew up during the 1950s, writes DOT WHITTINGTON.

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ennis Harrison is a true Baby Boomer, born in the vanguard right after the war in 1946. In fact, he entered on the world on August 6, a year after an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima to end the conflict.

In a nutshell, Dennis was born in Perth, moved to Melbourne as a teenager with his father, graduated as a geologist, travelled a lot with his work and ended up in Brisbane in 1985.

But interwoven in his story is coming to understand the impact of his mother’s mental illness, riding the resources boom, a midlife crisis when his wife suffered a stroke, and all the laughter and tears that come with 72 years.

Dennis happily admits he was part of the generation growing up in a peaceful and prosperous time.

“We were very fortunate.

We grew up in a golden age,” he says. “We had the freedom of walking 1.5km to primary

school, playing in the park, feasting on freshly-caught prawns around a fire on the river bank and even visiting the headmaster after a fist fight on the sportsfield. For the life of me I can’t remember what we were fighting about.”

His optimism and appreciation of the times shines through in his book, You Could be Prime Minister One Day Son. The title is explained early on. After he won the 50m sprint on opening day at Infant

School, his father “behaved as though I had won a gold medal in the Olympics”.

“He was always so supportive and encouraging. It was a catchphrase he used in my adolescence and adult life that he loved to repeat,” Dennis explains. “What a guy to have in your corner.”

Dennis retired in 2012, and soon after, he and his wife Kathy settled at The Village in Coorparoo in September 2013, when he set about writing the book that had been bubbling away inside him for years.

“I was tired of telling the same old stories and wanted to tell some new ones,” he says. “It would not have been written at all if I was still looking after a big house, garden and pool.

Downsizing made it possible.”

His book is a chronological account, from childhood through adolescence to adulthood and now, as he so delicately describes his dotage, “maturity”.

Chapters are short and

punchy, making it an easy stroll down memory lane.

“I’d been writing all my life, but it was always a lot of reports, although I was very descriptive doing that,” he says.

“Then with retirement looming, I enrolled in a U3A creative writing group and

“It would not have been written at all if I was still looking after a big house, garden and pool” went to that for three years. It worked really well for me.

“It was a brilliant format, producing material each week.

It gave me discipline and constructive criticism, so I owe a lot to the Wynnum Creative Writers Group.”

It has been a six-year project, although for one of

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OUR PEOPLE those years, the manuscript sat in a drawer undisturbed.

“You need a break so you can see it more clearly,” he says. “The last thing I wanted was a book that said, ‘I did this, I did that’.”

His book has two overarching themes. One is growing up with a mother who suffers mental illness. It went undiagnosed at the time, but Dennis now recognises that she suffered bipolar. His sense of abandonment when she chose not to join him and his father when they left for Melbourne while Dennis was a teenager, became more apparent as the words and memories flowed.

“I was separated from my mother for nine months as a young teenager but more than the pyhysical, it was the mental abandonment. It is very cathartic to write things down. You write to understand yourself.

“There were lots of laughs, but this bit was dark.”

The second theme is that boys need good male mentors – and cricket.

Dennis also discusses his career in the resources industry, with many anecdotes from the frontline of exploration, often in remote locations.

“I was very lucky to ride the Australian resources boom in a number of oil and gas discoveries,” he says.

“I rose through the ranks and over

36 years built up experience in our premier onshore oil and gas basin, the Cooper-Eromanga Basin.”

He also dabbled in politics and briefly wondered whether he might live up to his father’s encouragement.

He soon learnt that “it sucks the energy out of you”. And as it turned out, life had other plans.

On December 14, 1991, his wife Kathy suffered a stroke.

“It was a big moment for both of us. I have been active in the National Stroke Foundation since then,” he says. “It was our midlife crisis. This was an attack from left field on my family. I wanted to save her, so I started studying natural medicine and acupuncture and I went to the Australian Academy of Tai Chi.” He has been teaching Tai Chi at The Village for the past four years, conducting two classes of 90 minutes once a week. There’s an average of 24 in a class and to date, he has presented 15 students with flowers to celebrate attending more than 100 classes.

“It’s brilliant for seniors,” he says. “It’s based on learning good breathing. It’s very relaxing, helps with joint mobility and gives flexibility which is important in fall prevention.”

And now the book is done?

“I have another on the go. Fiction this time, a 26,000 word novella,” he says.

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BURNIE BRAE TRAVEL CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY BURNIE Brae Travel Connections is hosting a free travel this month, showcasing the best deals from Africa, New Zealand, Asia, Europe, Canada and Australia.

“Burnie Brae Travel Connections is celebrating its first birthday in November,” CEO Kevin Rouse said.

“What we have learnt from our travel clients in the past year is that the traveller who plans well, and seeks out professional advice before booking the trip whether it’s interstate or overseas, will experience the benefits of being organised and doing their homework.”

He said the passion of Australians for travel continued to grow every year, but Burnie Brae was constantly reminding clients that a few things always needed to be considered to ensure they stayed safe while following their dreams.

He recommends over 55s consider the following before setting off: CHECK THAT MEDICATION IS PERMITTED OVERSEAS Many travellers don’t know that some medication available in Australia may actually be prohibited overseas. The best way to avoid this issue is to contact the embassy of the country you are visiting before you leave to ensure your medication is legal.

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BE HONEST WITH YOUR TRAVEL PROVIDER Maintaining an honest relationship with your travel provider is incredibly important.

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ALWAYS CHECK FOR DISCOUNTS – ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE A SENIOR It is a great idea to always ask “Do you offer any discounts for seniors?” Many senior discounts begin as early as 50 years old and can add up quickly to create a sizable saving. For example National Park entry fees in Canada are discounted by 25 per cent for seniors, and Amtrak Train lines offer a 15 per cent discount to seniors.

CONSIDER IMPROVING YOUR FITNESS BEFORE YOU LEAVE Gaining a greater level of fitness before you leave on your travels may mean that you can participate in and experience a wider range of activities while you are away.

“If you are thinking of travelling in the near future, attending the Burnie Brae Travel Connections First Birthday Celebration Event will provide you with not only great travel deals but also tips and advice from experts to ensure you stay safe and enjoy your trip,” Mr Rouse said.

It will be held on November 2, at the Burnie Brae Centre’s auditorium, 60 Kuran St, Chermside. There will be entertainment, nibbles, drinks, fun, prizes and travel deals as well as planning ideas.

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FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH FINDING and connecting with Indigenous ancestors is not easy but you can learn more about how and where to look by attending a Queensland Family History Society presentation.

Titled, “Under the Act: researching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples” it will be presented by Kathy Frankland and provide an overview of the administrative control of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Queensland.

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Veterans from prior to World War I, World War I and World War II are remembered in this historic cemetery.

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WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE

The drones are coming It used to be “the Martians are coming “ but now it’s “the Drones are coming” – and they’re over your head right now, writes DAVID PARMITER.

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t was the headline in the paper: “Drones in a park near you” that really grabbed me.

What? I might have been sunbathing nude in my garden.

So, watching my language, I reached for the Macquarie dictionary.

“Drone1: n. 1. The male of the honey bee, stingless and making no honey. 2.

Someone who lives on the labour of others; an idler, a sluggard.”

Yes, well, I’ve met lots of those down at

Centrelink when I queue up to be told yet again why I am too old and useless to get a job; while the drones in front of me appear not to be. Although, looking at their ripped jeans and naked knees perhaps I could give them a pair of mine. The knees are fine, but the waist has shrunk.

“Drone2: n. 1. To make a dull, continued, monotonous sound. 2. To speak in a monotonous tone.”

Now both of these dictionary definitions precisely describe our elected

members during Parliament’s Question Time.

They make no money, live off the public hive and drone on ad infinitum.

And where is the Queen Bee while the worker bees are out there gathering honey for the drones’ super fund honey pot?

Lying back, perhaps, and thinking of England? Or only of the hive?

So, all the male “drone” has to do is keep the Queen Bee busy while the workers are out there grafting?

What a life! What busy bees.

Now, when it comes to language we need to be alert; and goodness knows, the World needs more Lerts. Thanks to the Goon Show.

It is no use some critics saying that “English is always evolving, and just suck it up” (a few YT angry letter writers).

Well, having employed the English language in 30 years of education for our school students, I am well aware of the evolutionary forms of the way we speak and write.

But, before we can change it, we need to know how it is ... or was. Children need to know the basics of English grammar and pronunciation. Only then can they adapt to the modern changes in the way they speak and write, remembering that many

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So, I thought, what, in language terms, constitutes ‘droning on’?

Immediately, one thinks of teachers and later, university lecturers and professors, probably because they had reached into the filing cabinet and pulled out Lecture #42 yet again.

Who can blame them?

Lecturing to ill-educated and disinterested students, many of whom have limited knowledge of the English language, is a soul-destroying job.

No wonder they retire with the feeling, who cares?

Which is why after four years I told the Dean that I was no longer prepared to play the hypocrite, and try to teach people who had no interest and no chance of getting a job in film and television.

They had limited English and no desire to work in teams. I shot myself in the financial foot but I slept well that night.

I have now worked with the U3A for five years and with aged care facilities and have learnt that when you’re working with older people, just watch your language because they were brought up to articulate correctly.

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HISTORY

A tale of two ships The vessels Gayundah and Lucinda both played a significant role in Queensland and Australian history, writes PAM VERNEY.

The Lucinda hosted the meeting of great minds formulating the Australian Constitution.

All that remains of the Gayundah, off Woody Point.

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he Gayundah was Queensland’s first naval vessel, and is now a rusting hulk at the base of the Woody Point cliffs.

It was built and launched at Newcastle-on-Tyne in England in May 1884, and arrived in Brisbane in 1885.

Gayundah is the aboriginal word for “lightning”.

Commissioned with her sister ship HMQS Paluma by the Queensland Government for the colony’s Maritime Defence Force to deal with the perceived threat from the Russian Pacific fleet, the vessels were of a “flat-iron” design and were fitted with masts for sails to assist long journeys.

It was the first colonial ship to fly the White Ensign.

After Federation in 1901, Gayundah was part of the Commonwealth Naval Forces and in 1903, ship-to-shore wireless telegraphy experiments were carried out on board via a makeshift aerial – a tall bamboo pole lashed to the mast.

In 1914, she was refitted and assigned

to patrol Moreton bay and the east coast.

The Gayundah was paid off in 1918 and sold to Brisbane Gravel Pty Ltd to haul sand and gravel in the Brisbane River.

In 1958, she was stripped at Bulimba Wharf and the hull used as a breakwater off Woody Point cliffs near Redcliffe, where she remains.

The Gayundah may not have exchanged shots with a raiding cruiser during the Russian scare, but she certainly was the centre of a sensation in late 19th century Queensland.

The Queensland Government ordered the Lucinda from the Scottish shipyard of William Denny and Brothers at Dumbarton in January 1884 at a cost of £13,000, and she arrived in Australia in May 1885.

She was designed as a paddle yacht and lighthouse tender with a steel hull.

The press reported that “although technically designated as only as lighthouse tender, the Lucinda is in reality one of the most magnificent upholstered

and effectively equipped steamers afloat.”

The Lucinda was named in honour of Lady Jeannie Lucinda Musgrave, second wife of Governor Sir Anthony Musgrave.

As well as servicing Queensland lighthouses, the steamer was used for ministerial visits along the coast (and to New Guinea on occasion), Cabinet meetings on the Brisbane River and Moreton Bay, picnic outings for various associations and annual excursions for school children in the state.

Lucinda was also flag ship of the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron and was referred to as the Queensland Government Steam Yacht (QGSY) Lucinda.

She was used at one time as a mail vessel for delivering mail along the Queensland coast.

In March 1891, the first National Australian Convention was convened in Sydney, to consider a draft constitution for the Commonwealth of Australia.

Queensland premier, Sir Samuel Griffith, had taken Lucinda to Sydney and, on being elected chairman of the Constitutional Committee, made the yacht available.

The first draft of the Australian Constitution was produced over 22 days on the Lucinda while cruising on the Hawkesbury River.

In 1921, in view of her age and cost of upkeep, Lucinda was laid up in Brisbane.

She was sold for £400 to local engineering company Evans, Anderson, Phelan and Co who partially dismantled her.

Later, in 1926-27 she became a coal lighter for the Riverside Coal Transport Company to carry coal from Ipswich to Brisbane.

In January 1937, the vessel was beached on the south east side of Bishop Island at the mouth of the Brisbane River to form a breakwater, after she had been cut to a bare hull.

The hulk has since been covered by the expansion of the Port of Brisbane.

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READER’S STORY

Smart move, Mr Henry Mr Henry was a dirty, gnarled man, gnome-like, and ancient, in a young girl’s eyes, writes CAROLYN COOMBES in this month’s reader’s story.

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Mr Henry was a man of few words, and seemingly little knowledge of the outside world. When I alighted the school bus, to walk past his house, Mitzy would race from a dark veranda, hidden by bushes.

She was kamikaze-like in her bid to reach the front gate. Would she stop, or would she implode on impact? Nup, she never imploded, just pulled up stock still, apart from a rear end that oscillated madly. Those gyrations ceased when I stopped patting her.

Mr Henry and I had a connection: dogs.

Our dog could have eaten Mitzy. He never would have, as he was the most, gorgeous, gentle, golden Labrador the world has ever known, but he could have sat on Mitzy, and that would have been the end of her.

Mr Henry limped to the gate at 3.55pm. Our conversations were deep and meaningful; “Hello Mr Henry, how are you?”

“Fine.”

“Hello Mitzy.”

Waggle, wobble, wiggle.

“Have a good day, Mr Henry.”

“You too.” I didn’t think he knew my name.

“Well, I’d better go, bye,” (I didn’t like Mitzy as much as our dog, and there was nothing more to say).

“Bye.” One day the conversation changed at 4.55pm. “Hello Mr Henry, how are you?”

“Fine, why are you late on Wednesdays?”

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“I play chess. Ask Mum if you could come to my veranda on Thursdays, and we could review your moves.”

“OK, bye.” I didn’t like the idea of him and his veranda – foreboding, gloomy, scary.

Mum was never home when I arrived back from school, but our dog missed me.

Later, over dinner, I said: “Mr Henry suggested I go to his place on Thursdays for help with chess.”

“Lovely idea,”the voice replied from the fridge.

“Really?” I whined.

“Really.” Mum also spoke few words, especially from inside the fridge.

Next day: “Hello Mr Henry. Mum says yes.”

“Good.” Then another first. A toothy, yellowed smile.

Next week: As the gate opened, Mitzy went ballistic. It took all my agility to avoid squishing her, but once on the veranda she settled as Mr Henry absent-mindedly patted her, while gesturing towards a clean glass with cordial and two biscuits.

He declined my offer of one. The veranda stayed frightening, with cobwebs and spiders.

15 weeks later: I won at chess.

Not an amazing achievement, my opponent was two years younger.

What was gobsmacking was that I wasn’t in fear of the veranda anymore. I guess as a girl I had never been afraid of Mr Henry.

He was just a lonely, disabled, uncared for, shut-in, of few words or recent experience.

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FASHION

Message on a T-shirt Like the little black dress and denim jeans, the T-shirt is an enduring fashion item and currently it’s all about the message, writes KAY McMAHON.

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ith slogans – such as Equal Pay Now, We Should All be Feminists, Stronger Together, I’m an Immigrant, More Trees Less Walls – the T- shirt this summer is lauded as the canvas for the younger generation’s alignment to a cause. But I wonder.

The T-shirt has been a means of political and cultural messaging since the early ’60s.

This year’s Fashion and Textile Museum’s exhibition in London, T-shirt: Cult, Culture, Subversion, catalogued the history of the garment and the political and cultural influence of its wearing.

As curator Dennis Nothdruft explains in a foreword, “It feels quite relevant … the matter of the personal as politicised.

[The T-shirt] is a really basic way of telling the world who and what you are”.

Though it was Barbara Hulanicki who broke the status quo in Britain and started marketing the T-shirt as a fashionable garment in 1964, for many it was the 1970s T-shirts of Vivienne Westwood and partner Malcolm McLaren that truly kick-started the influence and rebellious tactics that fashion, music, art and political commentary can promote.

From their punk rock boutique selling

sadomasochism (S&M) clothing and T-shirts covered in anarchic slogans, the two had a huge influence on the political commentary of the times and the punk spirit that rebelled against everything traditional and conservative.

At the time their slogan T-shirts (normally torn and ripped) were an anomaly on the streets. Westwood’s designs embodied the punk spirit and whether hanging out with those street punks in her store or facing a magistrate for a breach of peace case in a black

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T-shirt and shaved head, she has maintained the fire. She remains a fierce advocate for climate change, nuclear disarmament and other political causes.

Another British designer Katharine Hamnett became notorious for fashion slogans in the ’80s. Her iconic meeting with then prime minister Margaret Thatcher (pictured) dressed in a “58% Don’t Want Pershing” T-shirt (referring to public opposition to basing United States Pershing missiles in the United Kingdom at the end of the Cold War) re-ignited the influence of political fashion.

She has been quoted as saying: “I wanted to put a really large message on T-shirts that could be read from 20 or 30 feet away. Slogans work on many different levels; they’re almost subliminal.

They’re also a way of people aligning themselves to a cause. They’re tribal.

Wearing one is like branding yourself”.

And so the T-shirt has been emblazoned with words, advertisements and captions over the last few decades.

However, along the way there has been disruption. The logo-infested hautecouture and brand-laden collections of the late ’80s, ’90s and early 2000s has diluted the impact of the slogan T-shirt.

Yes, the collared T-shirt with a

polo-player that the business exec gets for Christmas certainly identifies an economic tribe, real or aspirational.

But where are the signs of rebellion, political passion and cultural signposts for changing the world? Has branding replaced the impact of fashion slogans?

We might see this season.

I still worry that all those years fighting for feminist beliefs, an end to wars and poverty, nuclear disarmament, the rights of all humans to education and a peaceful life, may not have made a difference.

As Hamnett said: “A successful T-shirt has to make you think, but then crucially, you have to act. What’s tragic is that most of these messages are still relevant today.”

But there’s a T-shirt-slogan glimmer on the horizon for those of us who lived through the those decades. Ari Seth Cohen of Advanced Style fame @ advancedstyle, in conjunction with Fanny Karst @fannykarst have recently created a T-shirt with the slogan Not Dead Yet. I intend to join that tribe and help my children and grandchildren understand the impact and motivation a slogan T-shirt can create.

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SPROUTS AND BROCCOLI ARE GOOD FOR YOU

The importance of zinc Zinc is arguably the most important mineral in the human body, writes TRUDY KITHER. That’s more than all the other mineral-dependent enzymes in the body combined.

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inc is important for the management of recurrent infections, poor appetite, poor concentration, anaemia, behavioural issues and emotional disorders, sleeping, slow wound healing, poor sense of taste and smell, hair loss, eczema, acne and other skin problems, altered cognition, depressed growth and diarrhea.

And that’s only the beginning.

Normally, zinc deficiency is due to insufficient dietary intake. However, it may also be due to malabsorption and chronic illnesses.

Stress, poor diet or infection can also deplete the body of zinc quickly. The majority of people I see are zinc deficient without even realizing it.

Also, diets high in grains such as bread and pasta can block zinc absorption making deficiency more likely.

A study from Oregon State University found that improving zinc status through

diet and supplements may reduce the risk of inflammatory diseases. It has been known for decades that zinc has a major role in immune function.

Deficiency has been linked to increased inflammation in chronic disease and triggering new inflammatory processes.

Zinc prevents cellular damage in the retina, which helps delay age-related macular degeneration and vision loss, according to a study published in the Archives of Ophthalmology.

The best sources of zinc are oysters, red meats, nuts – brazil, almond, cashew, chestnut, peanut, pecan, pine, walnut – chicken, duck, turkey, cheese, especially hard yellow types and blue vein, yeast spread, tomatoes including sundried, eggs, tahini, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, garlic, green peas, parsley, fresh basil, fresh broad beans, butter beans, spinach and mushrooms.

Alternatively, zinc supplementation is easy to provide via a high quality and easily absorbed powdered drink, capsule or liquid available from a reputable naturopathic practitioner. Zinc is also added to some breakfast cereals and other fortified foods.

Vegetarians may require up to 50 per cent more than the recommended intake of zinc because of the low bioavailability from plant-based foods. The Australian Recommended Daily Intake (RDI) for zinc in men aged 51 and over is 14mg per day, and 8mg a day for women aged 51.

A simple two-minute test can be done to check an individual’s zinc levels. More than 85 per cent prove to be deficient. Once that deficiency is corrected the difference is felt quickly.

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Just half a cup of broccoli a day can help older people avoid being hospitalised for a fall, new research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has found.

Researchers from the School of Medical and Health Sciences studied the diets of a group of older Western Australian women above the age of 70 and tracked falls over 15 years.

They found that those who ate at least one serve of cruciferous vegetables – such as Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage or broccoli – each day had a significantly lower risk of a fall requiring hospitalisation.

Lead researcher Dr Marc Sim said suffering an injurious fall can have a significant impact on quality of life.

“On top of the physical impact, suffering a fall has been linked to a reduced participation in social and physical activities due to a fear of falling again,” he said.

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Memories are made of this We are using our memory constantly and when our memory lets us down, it adds stress and confusion to our lives, writes KENDALL MORTON.

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o you repeatedly check that you locked the back door before you go out? Do you have more trouble finding the right word?

Your memory and cognitive health in general, affects your ability to live independently and safely at home in later years.

Latest research about memory loss and aging suggests six ways to help yourself and your family members.

In most cases, memory lapses are a normal effect of age-related changes in your brain known as Age-Associated Memory Impairment (AAMI).

The brain actually shrinks as we age due to the loss of neurons and produces less of the chemicals that support our cells. This makes it harder for us to recall facts and information that we know we know.

But, not all memory failure is permanent.

You can suffer from temporary memory loss due to physical or emotional conditions. Some typical causes are dehydration, fever, head injury, low thyroid function, high blood pressure or reactions to medication.

Stress plays a major part too.

A US study of 1320 adults in their 50s found that those who had experienced major stresses such as family conflict, financial difficulties or legal issues had significantly higher risks of dementia in later years.

For each individual stress, for example divorce or job retrenchment, the brain could age up to four years.

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2. CHOOSE WATER AND TEA OVER SUGARY DRINKS Start the day with two glasses of water to replace the fluids you lost during the night. For an elderly person who forgets to drink, set up a jug of water for the day.

Forget the soft drinks. A study of over 4000 people found that individuals who often drank sugary drinks and fruit juices were more likely to have poorer memories and smaller overall brain volumes.

There’s good news about tea. A Singapore-based study of 950 mentally healthy people found that those who drank tea regularly had a 50 per cent lower risk of cognitive decline than those who rarely drank tea. All teas had this positive effect as long as they were brewed from tea leaves.

3. BUILD IN SOME STRESS BREAKERS Add one simple and cheap stress break to your day, such as listening to some peaceful music, sitting in a local park or calling a friend for a chat. Also think about one event or routine that you are doing that you don’t enjoy. Can you stop doing it?

4. WORK WITH YOUR MEMORY Set yourself a challenge to memorise something. You may want to learn the names of your medications, the street names of a major city, song lyrics or a favourite poem. Success breeds success

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ARMISTICE DAY

An Anzac battle won My great uncle John and I missed each other by a little more than 33 years, writes BRIAN THOMAS.

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orporal John McIntosh Fraser, a Gallipoli veteran and twice awarded the Military Medal for bravery, was killed at Bapaume in northern France 100 years ago and I was born on the last day of 1951.

But at last I feel I have done the right thing by a man I never met and even now know precious little about.

A few months ago, at my request, the New Zealand Army issued his Gallipoli Medal earned 103 years ago to go with the Military Medal and Bar I obtained by chance three years ago.

The youngest boy in a family of six, John McIntosh Fraser was 20 years old when he volunteered for World War I service at the first available opportunity, perhaps caught up in the euphoria of the time and maybe inspired by the adventuring nature of his oldest brother, Thomas, my grandfather.

Grandad was turned down because he was half an inch too short when he tried to volunteer for the Boer War in 1899.

Undeterred, he signed on for the long sea voyage from Auckland, New Zealand, to Southampton and then found a ship to take him back to Cape Town, where he was put overboard and swam ashore to enlist. He was quickly sent up country without too many questions asked.

At one point he had his horse shot from under him but he survived the war and eventually worked his way home seven years after he had left.

His adventuring spirit took him to Coolgardie in Western Australia for a spot of gold prospecting on the way.

It was only when I began researching Grandad’s war service, I discovered that he had enlisted in World War I at the age of 38 in the hope of protecting his kid brother, a common if forlorn practice at the time.

Grandad survived, invalided home at the end of 1917, but great uncle John perished, probably killed by a grenade, on August 16, 1918, less than three months before Armistice Day.

Brian Thomas at his great uncle’s grave in France It was a wonder he made it that far.

Twice he was badly wounded and his military medals were won in the face of German machine-gun fire when comrades were being killed all around him. The citations are remarkably similar and not just for the formulaic first sentence: “For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in the field on the 26th March 1918, north east of Mailly Maillet [southeast of Arras in northern France].

When his Platoon Officer and all the NCOs became casualties Private Fraser organised the platoon under heavy machine-gun fire and led them forward capturing the final objective. He again organised the platoon and consolidated the position.

“For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during a raid on enemy’s trench south of Serre Rd on the 15th May 1918. This NCO was in charge of the left party and owing to shells falling among them and coming under machine-gun fire as soon as the party left our trenches they

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became disorganised. It was only this NCO’s example and quick decision in altering his dispositions that the party rallied and carried on to the objective. He then led his men through the trench and himself accounted for five of the enemy.”

My application for the citations led me to the New Zealand’s National Army Museum in Waiouru where the warm reception from a librarian was in great contrast to the chilly welcome when I began compulsory military training there in 1972.

She told me in passing that my great uncle had served at Gallipoli and it appeared that no one had ever applied for the service medal.

While awaiting the citations, I rang a fellow great nephew with a penchant for family history to find out more about our great uncle. He could tell me nothing but he remembered he had some old war medals in a tin somewhere.

He fished them out and to my great surprise they had been awarded to John McIntosh Fraser, apparently handed down to him by John’s sister. And even more surprisingly he was prepared to send them to me. They arrived within the fortnight.

My wife and I took the medals to France and photographed them on my great uncle’s grave in Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery, on the outskirts of Foncquevillers, only a few kilometres from where the medals were won. He lies with almost 750 other casualties of the World War I’s carnage, two-thirds of them unidentified – Known only to God is the inscription.

There are hundreds of beautifully kept war cemeteries just like it all across the Somme and the rest of the Western Front.

Before we left for France, I sent an exploratory email to the NZ Defence Force

Personnel Archives and Medals section about claiming the Gallipoli Medallion.

The answer was enough to deter me for the moment: “The difficulty you may run into is showing the link between you and John McIntosh. To claim the medallion you are required to submit both the application and copies of official documents that show the link between you and him . . . The further away the relationship the harder this can be.”

The matter rested until earlier this year when I was recovering from a hip operation and had time on my hands.

After coming a cropper on the Internet, I sent away to the Births, Deaths and Marriages office in Wellington for birth certificates for me, my mother, my grandfather and my great uncle.

All four came back within a few weeks, except that mine had the word DECEASED after my name.

It took a forceful email to persuade the bureaucrats I was very much alive but I had to send the erroneous certificate back before a new one could be issued. By the time it arrived my slim hopes of getting the medal in time for Anzac Day, if at all, had been dashed.

And there was still the NZ Defence Force hurdle to clear. On the face of it, I did not qualify for a Posthumous Application but I wrote the most persuasive letter 40 years in journalism had equipped me for and had a statutory declaration and the birth certificates witnessed by a JP. I sent the bundle off more in hope than expectation, wondering when I would begin to field queries about contacting all the other great nephews to ask for their permission, or some such obstacle.

Imagine my surprise when in the middle of May the medallion arrived at the local post office. The Customs declaration puts its value at $NZ40.

To me it is priceless.

And when I am gone it will be handed on to my son Fraser Thomas in the hope it will always remain in the family.

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IN THE KITCHEN

Cut horizontal slit through the thickets portion of each pork chop to form a pocket.

Stuff 2 tbsp. crumbled blue cheese into each. Season both sides with sea salt and cracked pepper. In a large non-stick frying pan, cook the pork for 3 minutes each side, or until cooked through but still juicy.

Remove the pork from the pan, cover with foil and rest for 5 minutes. Add the butter to the pan, swirl to melt and coat the base.

Add the pear, season and cook, turning occasionally, until lightly browned, about 4 minutes. Serve the pork with the pear.

Blue Cheese Pork with Pears and asparagus Serves 4 • 4 thick pork cutlets or steaks • 50g (½ cup) crumbled blue cheese • 2 tsp. butter • 1 ripe pear, sliced

Sautéed Asparagus • 12 asparagus stalks • 1 tbsp. butter • 6 fresh sage leaves Rinse the asparagus, peel the stalks and then remove the tough white ends at the base. Sauté in butter (along with sage leaves) until tender. Season with sea salt and cracked pepper to serve.

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Picante Chicken Serves 6 • 6 chicken breast fillets • 2 cups (350g) salsa • 1/3 cup (70g) brown sugar • 2 tablespoons honey-Dijon mustard Preheat the oven to 175C. Combine all the ingredients and place in a 30 x 20cm (12 x 8-inch) baking dish. Bake until the chicken is thoroughly cooked, 40 to 45 minute.

Baked Ricotta Pies with Blueberry Coulis Serves 4 • 2 egg whites • 4 tablespoons (100g) honey • 250g reduced-fat ricotta cheese • 1 cup (150g) frozen blueberries, thawed Preheat the oven to 180C. Beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form. Add 3 tablespoons of honey and the ricotta cheese and mix to combine.

Using a 1⁄2-cup measure, spoon the mixture into 6 cups of a silicone(or other nonstick) muffin tray.

Bake for 15 minutes or until the little pies rise and are golden. Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, heat the berries and 1 tablespoon water over low heat until the berries are softened. Stir in remaining honey and simmer for 5 to 6 minutes or until syrupy. Serve the pies drizzled with the ‘oh so yummy’ blueberry coulis! WT This also works pouring the mixture into a 20cm paper-lined cake tin, bake for 30 to 40 minutes or until the pie rises and is golden. Simply slice into wedges to serve.

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Optional: Add strips of red capsicum (peppers) before baking for added colour and flavour.

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Easy Pear Cake • 400g can pears (or 6 fresh pears, stewed) • 340g pkt vanilla cake mix • 2 eggs Preheat oven to 180°C. Place pears and liquid into a mixing bowl, add cake mix and eggs.

Beat on low speed for 30 seconds, then on high for 4 minutes. Pour mixture into a paper lined 22cm cake tin and bake for 55 minutes or until inserted skewer comes out clean.

Optional: Delectable served with cream and sprinkled with coconut.

In a bowl, soak 1 cup of dried chickpeas in 3 cups of water overnight. Drain, and reserve liquid.

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KNOW YOUR CITY

Eagle Farm hides historic sites THREE prime pieces of Brisbane history are hidden away among the factories and warehouses off Kingsford Smith Drive between the Southern Cross Way and the Gateway Motorway.

Making up the treble at TradeCoast Central are three nationally-listed heritage sites.

Earliest, is the old women’s prison farm, followed by World War II Brisbane with the old aircraft engine testing stands, and Hangar 7, where top secret work was carried out to get a better understanding of Japanese warplanes.

On top of all that, it’s also the site of the old Eagle Farm airport where the early aviators touched down from history-making flights and where passengers once hesitantly boarded their TAA and ANA flights in the days before flying was a commuter service.

There’s plenty of parking in front of the interpretative centre to begin a self-guided tour. This is made easy by using the free wifi to download three audio tours telling the story of the site as you wander.

Instructions to get started are inside the centre which has a huge photo from the Australia at War collection of the scene in 1944 when tents were massed at Camp Ascot (now Eagle Farm racecourse)

and Camp Doomben (now Doomben racecourse).

Outside, a wide balcony features the stories of the great aviators and gives a broad view of the whole site.

In 1920, Jack Treacy was the first person to land at Eagle Farm. It was little more than a cow paddock. His aircraft, the Queen of Sheba was bringing the popular silent film of that name to Queensland.

Bert Hinkler, landed in Darwin in February 1928, after completing the first solo flight to Australia in 15 days and two hours. He flew home to Queensland to a hero’s welcome at Eagle Farm. Charles Ulm, in June 1928, completed the first flight across the Pacific from the US and landed at Eagle Farm to a hero’s welcome.

From there, it’s down to wander the

heritage site, which begins with the women’s prison. The footings of the old cellblocks have been marked out and a path wanders across the lawn while scattered signs tell the story.

The old palisade gate, once made of pointed eucalypt stakes has been recreated in metal. This was the single gate that in the 1830s controlled all entry and exit from the prison yard.

Near the gates is the spot where, a century later, 26-year-old Amy Johnson came crashing in after her solo flight from England to Australia. Her hero’s welcome had been in Darwin five days earlier and fame preceded her arrival, so a crowd had gathered.

“Precisely where Amy crashed is unclear, but we know it was very close to this spot and if you had been standing here on May 29, 1930, you would have had an excellent view. It was a dramatic entrance. Her plane overshot the runway, tipped over a fence and somersaulted in the farm beyond. She emerged unhurt.”

Continuing on, the path winds around to the old Allison engine testing stands where locally refurbished aircraft engines were tested during World War II. It’s something of a miracle that the old engine testing stands were not torn down at some point. In fact, their floor level

illustrates how much the rest of the area has been built up – with fill from the Clem 7 tunnel as it turns out.

These sheds, built in 1942, were home to the “noisiest job in the war” and operated 24/7, much to the chagrin of residents in nearby suburbs. There is a button to push to sample the noise of the engines which could be heard as far as Lutwyche Rd. Two enclosed brick structures built in 1943 were used for indoor testing. They were decommissioned but never demolished.

The path leads on back to the interpretive centre, and on through a tunnel to Hangar 7, the last remaining building from wartime Eagle Farm Airport. It was built to discourage prying eyes as it was the base for the Allied Technical Air Intelligence unit, a topsecret unit crucial to the war effort.

Here, Japanese aircraft salvaged from the islands in the north were pulled apart and rebuilt to learn their engineering secrets.

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TECHNOLOGY

Downside to updates Every six months Microsoft releases a major update to the Windows 10 platform and inevitably, there are issues. The October release, writes NATHAN WELLINGTON, is no exception.

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f you follow tech blogs and forums, you may already know that some people have completed the update only to find that some of their files went missing.

Another more recent Intel audio update was released which stopped the audio from working. Even Microsoft itself has advised: “While we encourage you to wait until the update is offered to your device, if you’re an advanced user on an actively serviced version of Windows 10 and would like to install the Windows 10

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October 2018 update now, you can do so by manually checking for updates.” This has prompted me to write about updates and what I think is the best way to install them.

When it comes to Windows 10 updates, we have been resigned to the fact that Microsoft has taken away our ability to control what to update and what not to (sigh). And, with each major update, another assortment of compatibility issues arise.

It doesn’t give you a lot of faith in their

quality assurance processes.

It is always around this time that I receive an influx of calls from people experiencing a myriad of unexplained phenomena with their Windows 10 computers.

Whenever you accept an update, many people wonder if it’s safe to do so, and wonder what it is that they are actually updating.

So here are a few handy hints on what to look out for when it comes to updates.

Firstly, from the horse’s mouth, Microsoft: DON’T check for updates in the Windows update section of your computer if you’re a novice. Wait for it to prompt you.

This will help to avoid any undue updates that may not be ready for download on to your computer.

Secondly, there are many supposed update apps that claim to check all your software and get the latest updates. My experience with these is that they tend to do more harm than good.

Many install adware, keyloggers or malicious software that slows your computer down.

If you find that you have a driver that no longer works, or you want to check if

you need driver updates for your computer, then go directly to the manufacturer’s website and check your make and model.

Some manufacturers even have system checkers that will do the hard work for you, such as HP. It will scan through your HP computer and check that you have the latest drivers.

A lot of these updates are generally for security purposes, for compatibility between your computer and the Windows operating system, or for bug fixes.

If you are not sure whether to update your computer and it gives you an option not to update, then I would choose not to update.

If you find that you have an update installed and your computer has gone a bit glitchy, then it may be time to call your tech, because it either didn’t install correctly, its conflicting with other software on your computer, or it is buggy”.

In any case, rolling back the update may require a bit more expertise.

If you don’t have a tech to call, or have a question about what to do, you’re always welcome to email me on nathan@ hometechassist.com.au or call 1300 682 817 for some advice.

Brisbane

25/10/2018 1:44:17 PM

MOTORING

Historic Land Rover takes on a pet subject Our best mates can be troublesome travel companions so, 70 years after it began, Land Rover has developed a line for dog lovers, BRUCE McMAHON.

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rom being carsick, to wanting the windows open, needing to stop at every third tree, covering seats with body hair and emitting foul smells, dogs in cars can be both lovesome and loathsome.

And how about, as dog and owner get that bit older, trying to lift an animal into the back of a station wagon or ute? And out again?

Now the English, for all their strange ways, have long been a bit soft when it comes to dogs, so no wonder it’s Land Rover which has developed a line of pet packs to make sure four-legged friends are content and comfortable in the cabin.

It’s all there and, with a little luck, here in Australia by Christmas – from access ramps to spill-resistant water bowls.

There are three Premium Pet Packs, ranging in price in England from $650 to a tall $1560. The Space Protection Pack includes a quilted load space liner, luggage partition and that special water bowl; move through to the Pet Care and Access Pack and there’s also an access ramp plus … a portable shower.

“Land Rover is all about enjoying the great outdoors and that goes hand-inhand with dog ownership for many

customers,” says Land Rover’s product marketing director Finbar McFall.

Australian pricing for these pet packs will be known soonish and in the meantime check out YouTube to see some dogs enjoying a pampered ride.

Pet packs aside, it has been a busy year for Land Rover, the 70th year of a business that began in 1948.

Since then, there has been a long line of four-wheel drive machines – some utilitarian, some bespoke luxury wagons.

This year’s anniversary celebrations have included a trip into the remote village of Sandakphu in West Bengal

sitting at 3600m and accessible only by a steep and rock-strewn track.

Up here the villagers depend on a fleet of 42 classic Land Rovers, dating back as far as 1957.

And a little closer to their home in Solihull outside Birmingham, 70 Land Rovers – from first prototypes to the super-smart and super-quick Range Rover Sport SVR – were honoured with a run up the hill at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed.

Chief engineer for that first Land Rover Arthur Goddard, now 96, lives in Brisbane these days.

He still recalls the days shepherding fellow engineers, dealing with boss Maurice Wilks and driving that prototype to the Amsterdam motor show in 1948 for its first public outing.

And he has a simple explanation for the four-wheel drive’s long life – the Land Rover series ran through to 2016.

“We gave people what they wanted.

It’s pleased a lot of people and it’s kept on pleasing people,” Arthur says. “We met a need. I must say some of the needs we met we didn’t know were there. On the other hand, some of the stuff we thought would be an absolute winner was an absolute woof.”

And Arthur would agree there was never any need for pet packs in those workmanlike, raw-boned Land Rovers which finished up as the square-jawed Defender model.

The next generation is likely to arrive around 2020 and hopefully will again better suit border collies than labradoodles.

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FINANCE

Understanding the pay rise

The mixed blessing of an EPOA

Centrelink’s age pension rates went up in September. NARELLE CLOOPER explains the how, when and what it means for you.

Enduring Powers of Attorney are increasingly being recognised as an essential estate planning tool for older people, but caution is required as they can also lead to elder abuse , writes DON MACPHERSON.

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n September 20, Centrelink’s Age Pension rates increased by 0.99 per cent.

Specifically this is: • Single Pension $8.70 and part of a couple by $6.60 each.

This has seen the rates rise in 2018 by $21.90 for Single Pensioners and $16.50 each for Couples (ie, combining the March and September increases).

If you are economically minded and were wondering how these increases are calculated, well pension rates are linked to price and wage indexes (where as allowance rates are linked to CPI).

The rest of us just accept the science while we live the reality (sorry that’s a bit cliché!).

Included in the above figures was a slight increase in supplements, and for those receiving rent assistance that payment increased by $1 a fortnight.

For self-funded retirees who are watching the thresholds, there was an increase in the disqualifying income and assets limits (before the pension is $0): • Income for Single up by $17.40 to $2004.60 a fortnight.

• Income for Couple (combined) up by $26.40 to $3066.80 a fortnight.

• Assets for Single up by $2750 to $564,000 for homeowner and $771,000 for non-homeowner • Assets for Couple (combined) up by $4000 to $848,000 for homeowner and $1,055,000 for non-homeowner.

These single/couples scenarios relate only to the age pension payments, the rates

vary for different payments/allowances and family situations such as illness, separated and dependents, New Start etc.

If you are just above the thresholds, qualification for the age pension may be worth another look. There are strategies that can be put in place within the rules and regulations of the Income and Assets tests, some of which have been mentioned here before. Others are more complicated and dependent on individual circumstances.

It never ceases to amaze me how each individual situation can present itself differently.

I had a client this month who did not qualify for the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card (CSHC) but will qualify for an age pension. Go figure.

The Health Cards qualification thresholds discussed previously also increased by 2.1 per cent: • Low Income Heath Care Card increased by $4 to $556 of income for singles, in the preceding eight weeks, prior to applying, and $6 to $960 for couples (combined).

• CSHC increased by $1130 to $54,929 of annual taxable income for singles and $1808 to $87,884 for couples (combined).

The above information is presented as general information. Always refer to Centrelink or a Centrelink expert for the impact on your personal circumstance.

Narelle Cooper is from the Centre for Age Pension Admin Services. Call 1300 043 197 or email admin@ capaservices.com.au

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Is there an Enduring Powers of Attorney (EPOA)?

“No”. My response, “then we have a problem.”

Of course, that’s not the end of the options. There can be an Application for Guardianship through QCAT. There is the Adult Guardian. There is the Public Trustee. All viable options. All time consuming. All expensive.

If the father had given an EPOA to his wife (and usually they both give one to the other) then if one becomes unable to manage their own affairs the EPOA kicks in.

It allows the competent spouse (or child in cases where there is only one surviving, or a separated spouse) to easily step in and manage things in the best interests of the incapable person.

While EPOAs are very useful, sadly they can also be an opportunity for elder abuse. EPOAs in favour of children can

sometimes be used by the child to act for their benefit, and not for the elderly person.

EPOAs allow the attorney to operate bank accounts – a sensible way to pay bills, do shopping, and generally care and provide for the elderly person. However sometimes the temptation to get the inheritance early is too hard to resist, resulting in the elderly person’s funds being depleted, even exhausted.

Acting fraudulently with an EPOA is a crime, but detection isn’t easy, and it often requires another child, relative or friend to start asking questions to bring the abuse to the surface.

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HEALTH

SPINAL SURGEON DEBUNKS BACK PAIN MYTHS

ONE FOOT AT A TIME

Up to 90 per cent of Australians will experience back pain in their life.

With so many people looking for relief, it can be easy to get lost in the amount of advice that is readily available.

Leading spinal surgeon and neurosurgeon, Dr Michael Wong debunks the most common myths surrounding back pain.

Myth 1. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all in the muscles â&#x20AC;&#x153;When people face a bout of back pain, they may automatically assume itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve pulled a muscle or pushed themselves too hard. Back pain can come from several different sources.

The back contains the spinal cord, which is the foundation of our nervous system.

The spinal cord enables our brain to respond to other parts of the body almost instantaneously. When the discs in the spinal cord are damaged or displaced, it can lead to one or more nerves not functioning properly.â&#x20AC;?

Myth 2. Painkillers are the best solution â&#x20AC;&#x153;Over-the-counter painkillers such as paracetamol may help relieve pain temporarily, but do not fix the underlying issue and are ineffective for treating long term discomfort. Some painkillers even produce negative physical and mental side effects from prolonged use for chronic back pain. There is a wide range of treatments beyond medication which can be undertaken, such as

New research reveals 40 per cent of over 55s suffer from some sort of movement or pain in their lower limbs.

The 2018 Foot Health Survey also found that three out of four Australians admit they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t prioritise their foot health and one in three admit they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care for their feet at all.

The average person walks a total of 128,000km or more in their lifetime â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the equivalent of three laps around the world.

Despite 25 per cent of the bodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bones being in the feet, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not surprising that almost all Australians (89 per cent) suffer from foot pain at some point.

One in three respondents said their foot health had declined in the past decade, citing inability to stay on their feet as long, more pain and less range of movement compared to 10 years ago.

The 2018 Foot Health Survey, conducted jointly by the Australian Podiatry Association and Scholl Australia also found: â&#x20AC;˘ Over 55s are the only age group to say they have enough knowledge to manage foot health, and are the most likely (47per cent) to visit a podiatrist to do so â&#x20AC;˘ One in 10 Australians suffer from constant foot pain â&#x20AC;˘ Only 8 per cent of Aussies over 65 visit a podiatrist for lack of movement, but 73 per cent would visit for lower limb pain

physiotherapy, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), acupuncture, massages and relaxation techniques.â&#x20AC;?

Myth 3. You should exercise less â&#x20AC;&#x153;Exercise may be the last thing on your mind when going through severe back pain but studies have shown that bed rest can actually make the pain worse. Ensuring that the muscles and joints in the lower back are being used regularly helps strengthen them in the long term. The key is not to place excessive pressure on your back.â&#x20AC;?

Myth 4. Back pain is purely physical â&#x20AC;&#x153;Prolonged back pain can often make those that suffer from it feel helpless. No matter what they try, they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to eliminate the consistent pain. This feeling of helplessness can have serious effects on an individualâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mental health. This can make the problem worse, as the perception or expectation of pain can result in it becoming more heightened.

Sufferers of back pain are 2.6 times more likely to report psychological distress.â&#x20AC;?

Myth 5. An MRI Scan or other diagnostic test is needed to diagnose back problems â&#x20AC;&#x153;In some instances, technology doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hold all the answers. A scan can often reveal what is going on, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not always that simple. Back pain is often a complex issue, meaning that a spinal diagnosis isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t straightforward.

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â&#x20AC;˘ 63 per cent of Aussies admit to having never sought advice regarding their foot health â&#x20AC;˘ The most common foot ailments are foot pain (89 per cent), blisters (56 per cent), corns and calluses (42 per cent) and fungal and nail infections (39 per cent).

Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the top tips to care for your feet: â&#x20AC;˘ Regular check-ups with a podiatrist â&#x20AC;˘ Self-care: Cleanse, moisturise, nail care and monitor your feet for changes â&#x20AC;˘ Wear correctly fitting shoes â&#x20AC;˘ If needed, use insoles for extra comfort and get treatment for blisters, corns and calluses â&#x20AC;˘ If your gait or movement is limited, or you are in pain, visit a podiatrist Visit podiatry.org.au.

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Wesley Hyperbaric based at the Wesley Hospital in Auchenflower has been offering this unique treatment to patients from around Queensland and northern New South Wales for 20 years.

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The patient undergoes a controlled pressurised dive inside the chamber while breathing 100 per cent oxygen.

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RETIREMENT LIVING

RETIREMENT VILLAGE QUESTIONS ANSWERED LENDLEASE is offering a series of free masterclasses to answer the big questions about retirement living.

Anyone who lives in a retirement village knows the benefits –low maintenance lifestyle, socially vibrant atmosphere, facilities that inspire an active life. But you might not hear about the questions or apprehensions they had before they settled into their community.

Like any change in life, there’s often hesitation to make decisions without having all of the answers. There may be confusion about contracts, uncertainty about money, stress at the thought of downsizing, or even simple curiosity about what a typical day might bring.

Lendlease’s line-up of free Retirement Masterclasses aim to dispel the myths, answer the questions and tackle all the big topics around retirement living.

Presented by the host of Selling Houses Australia, Andrew Winter, and Principal of Aged Care Gurus Rachel

Lane, along with a panel of guests, the sessions offer frank and refreshing insights into everything you or your children could want to know.

Both Andrew and Rachel have a wealth of experience and will share their knowledge so you can make informed decisions about the lifestyle you want.

It’s an initiative designed to offer a transparent look at village life: what it entails, what to expect and the journey before you make any decisions.

Whether you’re interested in learning how a retirement village operates, want to understand contract options, discover the secrets of successful decluttering or get your head around the finances, there’s no question too great or too small.

Queensland Retirement Masterclass will be held at Bellflower Retirement Resort on November 16, at 10am.

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Birtinya Retirement Village is a Sunshine Coast oasis, focusing on the individual, their care and wellness, while recognising independence and enjoyment of a lifestyle.

Local restaurants, cafes and shops are nearby, and Sunshine Coast University Hospital is only a short drive or bus ride away.

Birtinya Retirement Village partners with a number of excellent providers that allow the option of meals, domestic assistance, and in-home care and support of it’s needed, for a stress-free retirement.

The friendly community and caring staff at Birtinya Retirement Village make retirement living the best it can be.

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LIFE’S A CARIBBEAN HOLIDAY AT CALOUNDRA CAY

INSPIRED by tropical textures and cool British colonialism, Palm Lake Resort is creating a Caribbean themed resort for over 50s at Caloundra.

The new Caloundra Cay (pronounced “key”) promises to deliver a lifestyle like no other in Queensland.

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It will host 270 single and double storey homes, with 15 different Caribbean-influenced designs. Design teams have spent months researching and defining the right influences to give these homes a truly unique feel.

Three display homes are now open to view daily and the first residents are moving in.

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HALCYON AN INNOVATOR IN LIFESTYLE COMMUNITIES WITH lifestyle-hungry baby boomers driving the growth of lifestyle communities in southeast Queensland, one developer has established itself as a key market innovator over two decades.

Halcyon, a pioneer in lifestyle communities since 2004, is successfully meeting the challenge of providing new homes that are designed for living and built for life. This includes its patented relocatable design which has revolutionised the manufactured home industry in Australia.

“Over 50s home buyers are unique in many ways,” Halcyon’s joint managing director Bevan Geissmann said.

“They’re at a point in their life where they have a desire for change and to start living the lifestyle they’ve always dreamed of. However, they also have to weigh up their needs of today with what they may need well into the future.”

Halcyon offers a triple guarantee by designing homes that offer absolute security and comply with the legal framework under which lifestyle communities operate.

“Halcyon’s triple guarantee of superior energy rating, liveable housing

design and patented relocatability differentiates us from others in the marketplace,” Dr Geissmann said.

“Energy efficient homes using environmentally sensitive materials cut the cost of living while making the home environment more comfortable.”

Liveable housing design has become a guiding principle at Halcyon.

All Halcyon homes are designed with silver standard in mind and include essential features that allow home owners to age in place.

“This is the ultimate in futureproofing, providing home owners with the ability to live in their Halcyon home longer, in safety and comfort,” Dr Geissmann said.

“Homes are designed with features that anticipate the change in mobility of our home owners as they grow older, such as a no-step entry, wider hallways and doorways, hobless shower recess, and bathroom walls with noggings as provision for grab rails.

Halcyon rounds off its triple guarantee with its innovative patented relocatable design. Homes are fixed directly to a slab with no false floors.

PRACTICAL HOUSING SOLUTION A BONUS A HOUSING affordability option for seniors is proving to be a win-win scenario for both investors and seniors.

Carseldine Gardens, a 143 one and two bedroom villa residential village 12.5km from Brisbane CBD, is a unique seniors village offering affordability, convenience and a community lifestyle for seniors downsizing, retired or not.

Seniors can buy or rent the villas, starting from $272,500 to buy or rent from $335 a week. Renters receiving an age pension may be eligible for additional rental assistance. The average median unit price in Carseldine in $403,000.

Villas are purchased in the same way as buying into a residential townhouse or unit development. The purchaser pays stamp duty, has freehold title, modest ongoing body corporate fees and the usual outgoings of home ownership.

Purchasers can sell their villas any time or rent them out.

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anyone keen to get into the property investment market as the investment is less than $300,000 with rental yields of 6 per cent, proven rental history, cash flow positive up to $43 per week and low risk tenants, in other words a low cost/low risk investment,” Alceon Brisbane executive director Todd Pepper said.

It’s also a great opportunity for families to pool resources to provide long term secure tenure for low income, modest asset retiree parents.

“Everyone is talking about the need for more affordable housing, particularly for seniors, but there are very few practical, flexible solutions on the table to ease the current predicament or solve the potentially worsening situation in 10 or 20 years with an ageing population” he said. “I believe Carseldine Gardens is a step in the right direction to help at least some retirees to have an affordable roof over their heads, whether they are owner/occupiers or renters.”

TREAT YOURSELF FOR CHRISTMAS RESORT lifestyle with less maintenance and more leisure, plus $10,000 cashback sounds like a jolly good deal for Christmas.

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BRISBANE Symphony Orchestra joins with the Sunshine Coast Oriana Choir to present The Armed Man for the centenary of Armistice Day. The works relate in different ways to man’s experience of war, and World War I in particular. The Armed Man is described by its composer, Karl Jenkins, as “A Mass for Peace”.

It was composed in 1999 on commission for the Royal Armouries for the transition from one millennium to another, and its composer, Sir Karl Jenkins, dedicated it to the victims of the war in Kosovo, which was unfolding.

It is one of the most performed choral works in the modern classical repertoire.

Although it is based primarily on the Catholic mass, the work famously includes a Muslim call to prayer, extracts from the Hindu Mahabharata, words from Rudyard Kipling and a poem by the Japanese poet Sankichi Toge.

Also in the program are George Butterworth’s orchestral rhapsody A Shropshire Lad, Peter Sculthorpe’s Small Town and Albinoni’s Adagio.

Sculthorpe’s work pays homage to all small Australian towns, and features two trumpets playing The Last Post.

Brisbane City Hall auditorium November 11, 3pm-5pm. Tickets $40-$55 brisbanesymphony.org.au and at the door

QUEENSLAND Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) is collaborating with artists and communities to present a unique theatrical performance marking 100 years of Australian wartime and peacekeeping service since the armistice that ended World War I. The free performance in QPAC’s Playhouse, Armistice, will reflect on Australia’s wartime and peacekeeping history combining song, music, dance, spoken word and archival footage.

Presented by QPAC and supported by the Australia Government’s Anazac Centenary Arts and Culture Fund, Armistice will be a powerful theatrical event reflecting veterans’ stories and artists’ responses to 100 years of Australia’s involvement in war, the impact on those who served, on their families at home, and on the nation.

QPAC Chief Executive John Kotzas said that as the state’s performing arts centre it was important to play a part in giving a voice to this milestone.

“Armistice is not a concert, a play or a documentary. It is all of those elements and more,” he said. “With an extraordinary creative team and impressive line-up of talented artists, it promises to be a visual and moving performance featuring true stories about service men and women, and their loved ones who supported them back home.”

Soldiers are welcomed home in 1918.

Picture: John Oxley Library

Featuring a collection of material from The Australian War Memorial, Armistice will portray artwork from official war artists Ben Quilty, George Lambert, Will Longstaff and Ivor Hele.

It also includes images, videos, letters and diary entries helping to bring the history to life for audiences.

Armistice will feature the Australian premiere of three new music commissions by composers Michael Askill, Ross Edwards, Elena Kats-Chernin and Andrew Schultz. The line-up of Australian artists also includes John Schumann and Tom Oliver, Bryan Probets and Naomi Price, internationally acclaimed choral ensemble, The Australian Voices, and Topology.

QPAC Playhouse, November 11, 2pm preview, and 6pm. Tickets free but booking is essential.

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WHAT’S ON

GRIGORYAN BROTHERS ACCOMPANY FILM

COWARD COMEDY BRINGS THE LAUGHS

AUSTRALIA’S finest guitar duo the Grigoryan Brothers will play the live soundtrack for screenings of the new film A Boy Called Sailboat.

Following international screenings at the Boston Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival and the Prescott Film Festival, the Australian creative team is premiering the film around Australia.

The simple but moving film is the story of a devout Hispanic family who discovers fresh hope in their extraordinary son Sailboat, when a loving personal gesture awakens a global desire. Armed with a “little guitar” and shadowed by an unblinking sidekick, Sailboat leads an offbeat cast into the miraculous story of the greatest secret never told – until now.

The music is a key element in the movie as Sailboat’s story is entwined with the music that comes from his ukulele. Acclaimed Australian guitarists Slava and Leonard Grigoryran wrote and recorded the music for the film in Melbourne.

A Boy Called Sailboat was shot in the US and stars J.K Simmons, Noel G, Elizabeth De Razzo, Jake Busey, Lew Temple and Julian Atocani Sanchez (pictured) in the title role.

Elizabeth Cinemas, Elizabeth St, Brisbane. December 15, 4.30pm and 7.30pm. Tickets sailboatthemovie.com

TAKE a hilarious step back in time to the 1930s with St Luke’s Theatre Society’s production Private Lives by Noel Coward this month.

It is one of Coward’s most popular plays for good reason – it’s very funny.

“Audiences escape to a more innocent age when, for the privileged, the world was about travel, music, parties and having fun; when people of a certain class seemingly lived their lives with abandon and got away with some very bad behaviour,” director Sharon White says.

Private Lives sees fiery divorced couple Amanda and Elyot running into each other while honeymooning with their new spouses, in adjoining rooms, at a smart hotel in Deauville.

They recognise an irresistible chemistry and their passion reignites as they abandon their new spouses for an affair in Paris. However, they soon remember why they got divorced in the first place.

“The play is Coward at his clever best, showing off his sparkling wit through the bristling dialogue of the characters,” White says.

“I’m thrilled to have the chance to work with such great material and I’m very lucky to have an amazingly talented cast I’m sure it will be a fitting end to St Luke’s 2018 season.”

St Luke’s Hall, 193 Ekibin Rd, November 23, 24, 26, 28, 30 and December 1, 7.30pm; November 24 and December 1, 2pm. Tickets $20, concessions $15. Bookings now open, visit stlukestheatre.asn.au call 3343 1457 or email daleandsylviaabsolon@gmail.com

QSO PRESENTS MESSIAH QUEENSLAND Symphony Orchestra and Brisbane Chamber Choir will perform Handel’s Messiah in the QPAC Concert Hall on December 8.

Forever associated with Christmas, the first performance of Messiah 250 years ago assured its everlasting fame.

Divided into three parts that cover Christ’s birth, crucifixion and redemption, this concert is filled with well-known favourites including For unto us a child is born, Hallelujah and the blazing, The trumpet shall sound.

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Operated by the Australian Railway Historical Society, the Sunshine Express is an original Queensland Rail heritage carriage pulled by a heritage steam locomotive from Brisbane’s Roma Street Station to Yandina and return.

On arrival at Yandina, passengers have the option of a coach transfer to

Noosa Heads for a swim or lunch in the salt sea air, or joining a coach to the long-established Eumundi Markets.

Spend time in either destination before returning to Yandina to board the steam train for the return journey.

Passengers can also stay in Yandina or take the local steam train shuttle from Yandina to Cooroy and return.

November 17. For full details or to book tickets visit sunshineexpress.org.au

TIME TRAVEL WITH A SILENT FILM BRISBANE’S cheapest form of time travel will have its final screening for the year when Roaring Twenties presents a nostalgic night reflecting cinema-going in the 1920s.

A classic silent short is followed by the main feature, accompanied on piano by local musician Fin Taylor, at the intimate Lumen Room on the ground level of Metro Arts.

The silent feature this month is Tramp

Tramp Tramp from 1926, starring Harry Langdon and Joan Crawford.

Harry Logan is mistakenly entered into a cross-country walking contest but because the girl he loves, Betty Burton, wants him to try, he does and sets out across the continent on an adventure.

Metro Arts, 109 Edward St, Brisbane.

November 9, 7.30pm. Tickets $15 at the door or prebook at stickytickets.com.au

EXHIBITION EXAMINES THE FACES OF AGEING

THE Faces of Ageing: through our lens, a collaborative project between the Council on the Ageing Queensland and Queensland University of Technology, is an exhibition of the reality of the lived daily experiences of older adults.

Three Community Ambassadors, Zelda, Bob and David, worked as coresearchers, taking photographs and conducting interviews to document the

Faces of Ageing in their communities of Brisbane, the Sunshine Coast, and Roma.

They photographed and interviewed more than 20 residents, to understand what brings most meaning to their lives as they age. This exhibition visually represents what the ambassadors found: • The importance of meaningful relationships • The desire to cherish and embrace the present moment • The importance of contributing to the lives of others through volunteering • The value of diversity and of looking to the future • The sense that older age brings an opportunity to deepen engagement with hobbies and take on new interests As the ambassadors explained, the photographs reflect “survival, strength, courage, adventure, positiveness, joy and laughter”.

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BOOK REVIEW

ELIZABETH PASCOE

This is a long slowly-paced story. We meet Eleanor a spinster living alone in a small flat in Glasgow, a beige type who keeps to herself , has a keen, critical eye, meticulous manners and drinks two bottles of vodka over the weekend!

As the many emotional layers are gradually stripped away we meet more people who come on to Eleanor’s radar.

This quirky and at times sad story caught me off guard and left me with a lot of affection for Eleanor. It left me wanting to say “you go girl!”.

TONY HARRINGTON

I really didn’t want to read this book as my wife recently had her “old ladies” book club meeting at our house to discuss it.

Most of them were raving about how good it was, except my wife who didn’t like the ending.

Was it a book just for the ladies?

No, definitely not! I found the novel to be engaging and well written. I liked the quirky, lonely, OCD, vodka-drinking Eleanor with repressed memories of her childhood.

But what kept jumping out at me throughout the book was that the main character was combination of the author’s personality mixed into her fictional character. The story was not real life but was entertaining and I suppose that’s what novels are meant to be. I liked the happy ending. 6/10

BOOK review JOHN KLEINSCHMIDT This is an unusual book, and one that I was tempted to give up on after the first few chapters.

I am glad that I stayed with Eleanor as the story is about profound loneliness, a scourge of modern society.

Eleanor is a little weird; other characters are likeable, neither goodies nor baddies; the plot straightforward.

An act of kindness that Eleanor was coerced into by a work colleague provides the catalyst for friendships and experiences that gradually restore her confidence and that, combined with thoughtful actions, inclusion and kindness, draw her into social interactions that lead to the type of life she wants to lead. An easy but different and worthwhile read.

SUZI HIRST

ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE

By Gail Honeyman

I absolutely loved this debut novel by Gail Honeyman.

The writing was superb and the characters were so well presented you felt as though you actually knew them.

Eleanor is different, and often socially unacceptable.

She goes to work, comes home and spends her weekends on her own drinking vodka. She makes you sit back and realise that there are people in this world who lead these lonely single lives and we probably know someone just like her.

Eleanor is funny sad and I cried and laughed and sat back and pondered, especially as this was the second time I have read it. There is a twist at the end but not sure it was necessary as the book is wonderful.

Talk to that strange quiet person – you may just be what they need! 10/10

Eleanor Oliphant struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking.

Her life is carefully timetabled, avoiding social interactions and with weekends punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.

Everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. Together they save Sammy, an elderly man who has fallen on the footpath, and the trio become friends who rescue one another from lives of isolation.

This unusual heroine’s deadpan weirdness and wit presents an emotional rollercoaster as she comes to realise the only way to survive is to open your heart.

JO BOURKE

MARY BARBER Initially, I wasn’t impressed by this book. A quirky woman is searching for a man; it reminded me of The Rosie Project.

I don’t find “difference” or “disability” funny and there wasn’t much to laugh about in Eleanor’s circumstances. However, the story deepens as you get to know Eleanor. I found I was getting more and more curious.

The book is well-written with a rich set of characters. As an outsider, Eleanor challenges some social conventions that irk many of us – such as giving your name for a coffee order. These incidents are amusing and easy to connect with.

Ultimately this is a positive life-affirming book. By mid-way I really cared about Eleanor and was cheering her on. This is a genuinely good read. It would make an excellent Christmas present for yourself or another keen reader.

Eleanor Oliphant introduces herself perfectly in just the first few pages of this excellent debut novel. To survive and try to cope with past tragedy, Eleanor’s life is totally ordered and bereft of any friendships.

Any social interaction is unfiltered, demonstrated by her inability to fit in with daily workplace banter. In the good old days she would have been labeled a misfit.

The sadness of Eleanor’s background is balanced by humour as we watch Eleanor become hopelessly infatuated with a Band singer. For the first time in her life she visits beauty parlours to imitate workmates in an attempt to attract her beau. I challenge anyone to read the description of her first ever bikini wax without chuckling.

I loved this book. I loved watching the layers of hurt and rejection being peeled away and Eleanor’s gradual realisation that her judgmental attitudes can change and that friendships are worthwhile and necessary.

Bring on your next novel, Gail Honeyman – perhaps a sequel?

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Balinese holiday not just for the kids Even before Redgum’s 1984 anthem, I’ve Been to Bali Too, the little Indonesian tourist mecca for Australians failed to make my list, but that has become a matter for regret, writes DOT WHITTINGTON. It’s all about expectations and purpose.

Lounging on daybeds being waited on hand and foot at Finn’s VIP Club isn’t all bad and (right) dragonfruit juice.

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or four decades I declared that I didn’t need to go to Bali to see Aussie tourists behaving badly, I could go to Sydney. And crowd-watching from a sidewalk bar in Seminyak, gave me no cause to change my mind on that score.

The change of heart came about because I couldn’t bear the thought that my children had all been somewhere I hadn’t. And I’m very glad it did.

It was with some cynicism that I booked a flight bound for Denpasar, a name that rings a bell for all the wrong reasons – Schapelle, the Bali 9, drug mules, and firing squads.

Add to that the horror stories of volcanoes and earthquakes, and Australians in motor scooter crashes; suffering Bali belly at best and food poisoning at worst; and being arrested or dying, and I felt my

40-year grudge against the place was justified. It’s had a bad rap.

However, needs must, and I set off to check it out for myself.

On the bright side, air fares are comparatively inexpensive and it’s a relatively short flight of around six hours.

Fares range anywhere from $300-$800 depending on the time of year, sales, and the airline of choice. Malindo, the Malaysia-Indonesia full-service airline has generous legroom and, with Jetstar and Virgin, provides the best deals.

There are also plenty of package deals offering five nights staying at four to five-star hotels for less than $1000 – including the airfare.

And herein lies the secret to Bali, as I was soon to discover.

It’s a fabulously cheap holiday to lounge by a pool, soak up the sun, suck down cocktails,

dine like royalty and zone out with a daily massage. Sadly for Queensland tourism, the Whitsundays can’t compete with the cost of all that, even with the airfares added in.

And this would also explain why Bali is a favourite among Australian tourists of all ages.

It’s a champagne holiday on a beer budget with another culture thrown in for good measure.

Breakfast at a local cafe

Unlike the rest of Indonesia, which is predominantly Muslim, it has Indonesia’s largest Hindu population, which means lots of temples and shrines, bright colours and daily offerings in the street.

Rice paddies add splashes of deep glorious green to the countryside near the coast, while spectacular forested volcanic mountains and valleys are a picture heading inland.

There are beaches, cliffs, coral reefs or a combination of them at Seminyak, Nusa Dua, Legian, Uluwatu, and Canggu.

Traditional crafts and dance are on show in the rainforest of the beautiful Ubud district, where yoga and meditation retreats beckon.

In fact, it is possible to enjoy a holiday in Bali without ever setting eyes on Kuta or shopping for a Bintang T-shirt.

And holiday is the key word.

This is a destination that’s made for relaxation and luxury stays,

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Fresh flowers are carefully placed at this coffee shop each morning. the tourism dollar, it is still a third world country. But that also adds to its appeal.

Even though the language of the passing hordes would suggest it’s Australian, there is still a local flavour to lap up.

Motor scooters are the most popular way to get about but unless you have prior experience you could be taking your life in your hands in the frenzied local traffic.

This, I soon learnt, is where the accident statistics come from. One young Aussie jumped on a scooter, called her two friends to climb on behind and was last heard shouting “I have never ridden

before” as the three sped out of sight.

There is no hint of a nanny state here, it’s Rafferty’s rules.

There is a huge selection of accommodation, from private villas to luxury hotels. Private swimming pools surrounded by lush gardens, an ensuite for every room and daily room service are the order of the day.

Hotels offer lavish daily buffet breakfasts and while villas will have a kitchen, one of many little cafes that are always nearby provide the easy option.

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breakfast, airport pickup and a daily cocktail thrown in for good measure, are as low as $500 for five nights.

On arrival at Denpasar’s Ngurah Rai International Airport, I was met by a driver for the 20km journey to Canggu, chosen because it is not quite as hectic as some of the other beachfront centres. I also soon discovered that it’s home to Finn’s Bali, where everything is made easy. The trip took an hour as there is no hint of open road in this built-up corner.

My private villa had a private pool with a huge shaded futon as part of the garden setting, perfect for lounging about and reading. Holidays are made of this.

Massages quickly become part of the daily routine, whether it’s the local spot around the corner where I swear they use cooking oil and seldom change the batik sheet, for $6-$10 an hour; or an outing to a spa filled with the scent of essential oils, chilled towels and herbal tea for the princely sum of $30 an hour.

Another attraction of Canggu is Finn’s Bali, made up of a recreation club, beach club (recommended only if you’re looking for a wild party) and the neighbouring VIP Club where you can lean back on a daybed between pool and beach, and be waited on hand and foot with tempting cocktails and top-notch tucker.

It is a destination in itself, so after a day of lounging, dining at the poolside restaurant, or being pampered in the

At the end of the day, it’s worth waiting for the beauty of a Bali sunset.

Ocean Spa, you can wander up to the rooftop bar for evening entertainment before grabbing the shuttle home. Work it all off at the Recreation Club’s fitness centre or lap pool the next day, or have a round of tennis. Set on 4ha among the rice paddies of Canggu, it’s 10 minutes from Seminyak and also has a sports bar, restaurants, 10-pin bowling and spa.

There is a smorgasbord of passes with multiple inclusions to choose from for the Finn’s experience. And you can also make the most of your last day with a Day Pass to use the facilities and have a shower before catching a late flight home.

Luggage is safely stored until the airport transfer arrives. It’s all just too easy, as millions of Australians have discovered.

So now I am happy to say, “I’ve been to Bali too” – and I’ve still managed to avoid Kuta.

Outback town that made history Any trip through central Queensland needs to allow a day or two to learn the story of Barcaldine, writes DALLAS SHERRINGHAM.

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his unpretentious town of 1000 residents, full of lovely old pubs and Queensland bush houses is where nation-changing history was made.

Barcaldine played a significant role in the Australian labour movement and the birth of the Australian Labor Party.

It all happened in 1891 when it was one of the focal points of the Australian shearers’ strike, with the Eureka Flag flying over the strike camp.

The landmark Tree of Knowledge, under which the strikers met, took pride of place outside the railway station.

In 1892, the reading of the Labour Party manifesto under its shady branches led to the formation of the ALP. Sadly, in an act that defies logic, in 2006 unknown vandals poisoned the beautiful old tree. It was a 200-year-old ghost gum when it died.

Barcaldine was a natural focus for the development of unionism in the Australian bush. As the railhead, the town drew many seasonal and casual workers – shearers and hands, and navvies who had built the railway.

In 1887, the Central Queensland Carriers Union was formed, and discussions leading up to this were held under the gum tree which provided

One of the local pubs shade for the carriers waiting at the station. At the same time, the Queensland Shearers’ Union was formed at Blackall.

Then in 1888, the Central Queensland Labourers’ Union was formed. These three unions were the driving force behind the strike of 1891.

One of the first May Day marches in the world took place during the strike on May 1, 1891 in Oak St, Barcaldine.

Today it is commemorated in a major display surrounding the restored remains of the dead tree. Inside, next to the tree remains, a “cathedral type” structure shuts out the everyday world.

Nearby is the Australian Workers Heritage Centre. Barcaldine has a number of heritage-listed sites, including its shire hall, war memorial clock, Lagoon Creek shearers strike camp site, Masonic Temple and Anglican Church and hall.

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PUZZLE SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

SUDOKU (EASY)

8 3 4 9 2 6 1 5 7

9 1 7 5 3 4 2 6 8

7 5 6 1 9 2 8 3 4

1 4 9 8 6 3 5 7 2

3 2 8 4 5 7 9 1 6

SUDOKU (MEDIUM)

5 6 2 7 1 8 4 9 3

2 8 9 3 1 6 5 4 7

4 7 6 9 2 5 3 1 8

5 3 1 7 4 8 6 2 9

CODEWORD K P E DMG J WX S C A N 15

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6 5 4 1 8 7 2 9 3

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3 4 8 6 5 1 9 7 2

WORDFIND

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1. In what decade of last century did Australia II win the America’s Cup? 2. What gemstone is abbreviated to “lapis”?

3. What is the colour of the cover of an Australian diplomatic passport?

4. In the Disney movie Snow White, which of the Seven Dwarfs never speaks?

5. In what country is the world’s oldest zoo?

6. “Outwit, outplay, outlast” is a catchcry of what TV show?

7. What ocean borders Washington state in the USA? 8. What type of bird provides the soft feathers used in eiderdown?

9. Where would a person normally be when taking part in matins?

10. What is the pouch worn in front of a kilt?

11. What type of car is often called a “Caddie”?

12. What does a chronometer measure?

13. What shape is an annulus?

14. Colloquially, if someone is consigned to Davy Jones Locker, what happens to them?

15. What skill does an ambidextrous person have?

16. Kalinga, Nathan and Algester are suburbs of what city?

17. What does the “C” stand for in RACQ? 18. What unit of currency does Switzerland use?

19. Which former Australian Prime Minister had a wife called Hazel?

20. Which Tropic passes through Queensland?

2 8 1 3 7 5 6 4 9

QUICK CROSSWORD

6 9 3 2 4 1 7 8 5

With Quizmaster Allan Blackburn

4 7 5 6 8 9 3 2 1

TRIVIA

Secret message: Illustrator

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WORD STEP PARTY, PARTS, PARKS, PACKS, LACKS, LOCKS

emir, engirt, germ, girt, grim, grime, grin, grit, inert, inter, interim, intermit, merit, meriting, miner, minter, mire, miring, mitre, mitring, nitre, nitrite, reign, rein, remit, REMITTING, rent, rime, riming, ring, rite, term, terming, termini, tern, tier, tiger, timer, tinier, tiring, titre, trig, trim, trine, trite

1. Ninth decade or the eighties (1983); 2. Lapis lazuli; 3. Red; 4. Dopey; 5. Austria; 6. Survivor; 7. Pacific; 8. Duck, specifically the eider duck; 9. In church, usually Anglican; 10. Sporran; 11. Cadillac; 12. Time; 13. Ring; 14. Buried at sea; 15. Able to use both hands equally; 16. Brisbane; 17. Club; 18. Swiss Franc; 19. Bob Hawke; 20. Tropic of Capricorn;

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PUZZLES

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

DOWN

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6 8 9 10 11 13 14 15

Creating the outline of a hotel suite (10) Steer somewhere in Istanbul.

Lock the car before leaving (7) You are following to the French tower on this trip (4) Reshaped the link in a hot place (4) If you have a bad temper, women will receive the enabling! (11) Ask rudely about the new leader who went right down (4) Long live six valued starters (4) Recreating artless works referring to a whole class (7) Is the use of bold italics apt to influence the successful business mogul? (10)

No. 2543

See how immaculately this spy sells to foreign powers (10) 2 It took some time to extract the rusted bar from deep in the harbour (4) 3 The least probable nuts lie about and like being included (11) 4 Saddles and things can change direction purpose! (4) 5 An alternative in contrast to a restriction (10) 6 The British impugn dubious statements about them jostling (7) 7 Use a nice kit to construct something to do with movement (7) 12 Maintain the castle (4) 13 Sounds like a very wretched glass container (4)

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Refer to the website for a cryptic solving guide.

CODEWORD

No. 015

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WORDFIND

A N

The leftover letters will spell out a secret message No. 016

Aladdin Ariel Bambi Beast Daisy Dewey Doc Donald Dopey Elsa Goofy Heuy Iago

WORK IT OUT!

Louie Mickey Minnie Nemo Pluto Pooh Rory Scar Scrooge Simba Sleepy Snow White Ursula

SUDOKU Level: Medium

4

8 9 6

No. 812

6

8 1 9

7 1 5

2 8 1 2 7 5 5 8 9 2 3 1 9 9 6 7 3 1 6

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PUZZLES

QUICK CROSSWORD

No. 3644

9-LETTER WORD

No. 016

Today’s Aim:

I M

22 words: Good 33 words: Very good

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45 words: Excellent

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Using the nine letters in the grid, how many words of four letters or more can you list? The centre letter must be included and each letter may only be used once.

No colloquial or foreign words. No capitalised nouns, apostrophes or plural words ending in “s”.

WORD STEP

ACROSS

DOWN

1 3 10 11 12 13

1 2 4 5

15 16 18 20 22 25 27 28 29 30

Gap; crevice (4) Differentiation (10) Lawyer; canvasser (9) Killed (5) Food eaten (4) Embarrasses; horrifies (9) Bandits (7) Relating to earthquakes (7) Proclaims (7) Eight-sided shape (7) Emotional release (9) Leg section (4) Ratio; climb (5) Extensive outbreaks (9) Coughed (10) Joins (4)

6 7 8 9 14 16 17 19 21 23 24 26

Sleep (4) Fabricates; lies (9) Positive viewers (9) Less contaminated (5) Italian opera composer (7) Guru (7) Very small amount of time (10) Grass cutter (6) Transmits (10) Boot polish (9) Enlarged (9) Chemistry substance (7) Trialled (6) Path (5) Rubbed leather (5) Snakes (4)

No. 016

SUDOKU Level: Easy

No. 811

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9

7 5 3 7 9 2 3 8 4 1 2 3 6 9 2 3 7 4 5 3 1 3 4

3 4 5 9 1

WORK IT OUT!

Complete the list by changing one letter at a time to create a new word at each step. One possible answer shown below.

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