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ot long ago (well, it seems like weeks but it is probably months), I commented that it seems the older we get the faster the years fly by. I recently heard an explanation for this phenomenon and since it seems quite plausible and I haven’t any better ideas, I will share it. Basically, it’s all about percentages. In the first year of our life, one year is 100 per cent of our life experience. By our second year, we are already down to 50 per cent. At 15, it’s only 6.66 per cent of our life and after 30, each year is going to be less than 3 per cent. By 60, one year represents just 1.6 per cent of our total life experience. So, life is subject to inflation and,

Contents like money, the more there is the less it’s worth. The more years we have, the less time each takes to pass. That would explain perfectly why a year now seems to pass as quickly as the Christmas holidays did in our teens. And who would have thought that it is already a year since the first edition of Your Time magazine appeared? Yes, in April 2015, we began presenting news specifically for the 55+ demographic. Thank you for your support during the past 12 months and thank you for supporting our advertisers who, at a time when digital media is threatening the printed product, have recognised that many readers aged 55+ still prefer to hold a quality magazine in their hands. The team at Your Time looks forward to bringing you another year of good reads. If you have any suggestions, we would love to hear from you.

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Increasing the retirement age is firmly on the national agenda but as ANGELA BENSTED discovers, there are already workers who, after making a dramatic career change, choose to remain employed – some long after turning 65 – and are loving every minute of it.

Ian Morgan has relished the shift from classroom to workshop.

he TV commercial shows a man and a woman driving in a red convertible, smiling and windswept, then zooms wide to reveal they’re behind glass as part of a museum exhibit. A young boy looking on turns a puzzled face to his grandfather, who wears a crumpled suit and a hangdog look, seeking an explanation. “It’s called retirement son. They

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used to have it when I was a boy.” The shape of Australia’s workforce is changing. Once it was a pyramid, the base fat with younger workers contributing tax dollars to support their grandparents at the tip. Now we’re living longer and having fewer children and the pyramid is being squeezed. There are more people at the top

looking to wind down and fewer at the bottom to keep the economy’s fires burning. These shifting sands are eroding traditional notions of retirement, blurring the once distinct line between working and not working. But while some might lament these changes, for many people in their 60s and 70s, a job is not a burden. The chance to remain in the workforce is actually a godsend. Just ask Tony Cox. Tony wasn’t too sure about retiring at 58 to swap his home in Taree, NSW, for the soft climate and gentle pace of Palmwoods. He was a racing industry stalwart, a track manager with 35 years in the business who loved his job. But for a man with no hobbies used to being with people all day, retirement came at a cost. Volunteering at a Bli Bli nursing home with his wife Margaret was no substitute for work and he became “very bored and depressed”. Everything changed when Tony answered an ad and landed the job of courtesy car driver with Sunshine Coast Mazda. “Physically and mentally it has been really beneficial,” Tony says. “It gives me a reason for getting up every morning.” Now 71 years old, Tony drives an eight-seater van five days a week, delivering dealership customers to

their homes or workplace every morning and afternoon. “I’m in contact with people every day,” he says. “I don’t feel 71 and I’m sure this job I’ve been doing for the last 11 years has been good for me.” Ian Morgan’s late-life career change also started from low point. He found himself in bed one morning, tears spilling down the lines on his face earned through a lifetime of teaching. Ian had tasted success as a teacher, an education advisor and small business owner. But a divorce, with its financial and emotional aftermath, had taken its toll. He had to sell his business and found himself drifting through life, moving between regional towns from one teaching job to the next, none of them the spark he needed to get him through the day. His pilot light flickered. A chance phone call from an old friend was a lifeline. Huddled over a coffee at McDonalds, the friend listened to Ian’s troubles and urged him to get some professional counselling. It was just the “kick up the bum” he needed. “Teaching was getting really difficult. I needed to do something but I couldn’t. I didn’t know where to go. I needed motivation,” Ian says. A few counselling sessions gave him the head space and the confidence to think about how he could go about

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finding happiness again. “She was really good. She said ‘What are you going to do, Ian?’ And that was the turning point leading to this little business,” Ian says, gesturing to his tinker’s workshop where tin and copper wares jostle for shelf space. In between contract teaching jobs, Ian harnessed his creativity and business acumen to make tin buckets, jugs and vases, which he sold at weekend markets. Since opening a shop front on busy South Pine Road in Alderley in 2014 he’s had constant traffic. Now in his 60s, Ian doesn’t see himself ever retiring. “I’d be bored,” he says. “I need this to keep me going. I love being an entrepreneur, seeing where it’s going. I love making new stuff that I’ve never made before.” He’s expanded the business, offering evening classes in metal work. With students aged from 12 to 80, these classes are now his bread and butter. He’s landed commissions for heritage buildings such as Newstead House. Carpenters stop by and ask him to knock things up, looking for metal solutions that don’t require rivets. Ian says he’s still broke. The difference is that now he doesn’t care. “If I go bankrupt,” he says, “I’ll still do this.” Dr Stephen Carbone, a policy research and evaluation leader with the mental health advocacy group Beyond Blue, says research confirms that there is a link between

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employment and wellbeing. “People who are in work tend to report lower levels of psychological distress than those who are unemployed but would like to work,” Dr Carbone says. “Work provides a sense of identity, a sense of purpose, structure. It gives you an opportunity to socialise.” He says people who have to leave work involuntarily, perhaps becoming

counters a final tidy before turning off the lights and disappearing out the back to change. They emerge a few minutes later, giggling like a bunch of schoolgirls enjoying a half day, weighing up the merits of the various shopping centre cafes for our chat. This trio is half of a group of women, all 50 plus, who have notched up 20 years or more with Australia

“A return to work, even just a few hours a week, has made the difficult adjustment to retirement a lot easier. Tony Cox loves being in the driver’s seat.

unwell or needing to care for a family member, are more likely to experience psychological distress. For some people their job is their identity Dr Carbone says. For these people, retirement can feel like “being a fish out of water”. Just after midday on a Saturday afternoon at the Brookside post office in Brisbane’s northern suburbs, a group of women in their 60s give the

Post. In a display of grey girlpower, they have shrugged-off retirement thoughts, laughing at the suggestion that it’s time to take it easy. These ladies like each other and enjoy the job too much to leave just yet. “It’s like a second family,” says Glenda McLean, 62, who has worked for Australia Post since 1992. Delayed superannuation saving and a marriage breakup mean she still relies

on the income, but there are other benefits. “I work with lovely people. We’re all friends. We even socialise outside of work,” she says. While Glenda loves her job, she could happily live without it, conceding if she won the lotto “I’d be out of here”. Angie Valks is different. She retired when she was 62 “but I came back” she says, laughing a little, as if embarrassed by her indecision. Now 72, Angie works Saturday mornings and relieves when the shop is short-staffed, usually one or two days a week. The initial joy of retirement with its freedom from routine, lunchboxes and uniforms, soon wore off. She felt lost. She found herself looking for excuses to go out “because I just couldn’t stand being at home.” Angie says her husband is a lovely man but when he retired soon after her, “he nearly drove me crazy”. “He had nothing to do and he was always at home. Whenever I wanted to go somewhere he would ask me ‘Why do you want to go there’?” A return to work, even just a few hours a week, has made the difficult adjustment to retirement a lot easier. “I think it keeps you healthy,” she says. Her colleague and friend Vivienne Read, 68, is considered a minor celebrity by her grandchildren. Every time they visit her at Brookside they are struck by how many people know her. continued over>

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<from previous page “I sit here (BB’s café at Brookside) on my days off and people wave to me – ‘hello, hello, hello’,” she says. After 30 years with Australia Post she has no plans to retire. She jobshares, week on, week off. “In my week off my husband (72, retired) and I can do things we want to do with our family or community,” she says. Sometimes she thinks she should consider leaving work. “But I enjoy the customers,” she says. “I’m a people person and I love it.” Australia’s pension age will rise from 65 to 67 by 2023, then to 70 by 2035. The shift starts in 2017, when it rises to 65.5 years. Despite this, the number of older people in Australia’s workforce is considered low, with only one in three people aged over 55 in paid work. For many people over 50, this is not for want of trying. Following a spike in complaints about discrimination against older people, most relating to employment, in 2015 The Australian Human Rights

Grey girlpower embodied in Glenda McLean, Angie Valks and Vivienne Read

Commission launched a national inquiry into barriers preventing older people and those with a disability from working. The Commission will report its findings and recommendations to the Federal Government by July this year. Some written submissions have been published online already and

reveal a recruitment culture where bosses who hire staff such as Tony Cox are rare. Simon Scanlan, then service manager at the dealership which hired Tony and now Elite Player Development Manager and Recruitment Officer with the Brisbane Broncos football club, says Tony’s

length of service with his previous employer was an advantage. His age actually worked in his favour. “We wanted an older person with a bit more stability, someone who’d hang around. “(We wanted) someone who could engage with the customers and make them feel comfortable about handing over the keys to their car,” he says. “Tony was great at building relationships with the customers. He’d get them relaxed and comfortable and talking about the car. “He’d actually come back (from driving them home) with more information about what was wrong with the car which was helpful to the service team,” Simon says. Just as retirement is not an antiquated concept just yet, there are plenty of people in their 60s and 70s who are not ready to disappear from the employment landscape. “We’re still healthy and energetic,” Vivienne says, downing the last of her cappuccino and giving a final wave to a passing customer. “We’ve still got a lot to offer.”

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Barry proves a little Bull goes a long way A veteran of the Australian music industry, Barry Bull is now 73 but he’s still a long way from hanging up his Fender, as ANGELA BENSTED reports.

arry Bull is still wet from his morning swim at Mooloolaba, buoyant after running into reporters from the Today show. They chatted and he asked Richard Wilkins, who had interviewed Barry 10 years ago, if he remembered him. “Of course I do,” the reporter replied, confirming the 73-year-old music industry veteran is not easily forgotten. Among other achievements, Barry Bull is the name behind Toombul Music, a Brisbane store which revolutionised music promotion in the 1980s and ’90s. Barry was the first retailer in Australia to use shopping centre stage appearances, drawing on 12 years as national marketing director with CBS Records (Sony Music) to entice national and international stars including Neil Diamond, Billy Joel, Olivia NewtonJohn and Michael Crawford to meetand-greet sessions. Each event inflated the shopping centre crowd by as many as 2000, with a corresponding explosion in music sales. Barry’s business flourished and industry awards followed. Retail success gave Barry a national profile and led to a parallel career as a motivational speaker and author. But music has always been his real love. Like a lot of kids growing up in the ’50s and ’60s, Barry knocked around in a backyard band. He spent £250 importing a Fender guitar, an investment which “made an indelible impact” on his younger self and now plays a pivotal role in his retirement. The Toombul Music fairytale ended when Barry sold the business in 2008. “I didn’t see any future in music,” he says, but he hadn’t planned on retiring and “fell into a real hole”. Salvation came from doing favours for friends. Barry often sourced obscure songs for special events and was struck by how many came in lacklustre compilation albums. He figured he could do better and started his own record label, Music for Cruizin’. “I knew people of my generation would enjoy this. I knew the music that they like,” he says. “That was exciting. It was moving on from the hole that I fell into after closing my business.” He moved to Mooloolaba 10 years ago, converting his longtime holiday pad to a permanent home. Two years

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outback Queensland for many years and the current drought is the worst I have ever seen,” Mr Park said. “I started with the aim of giving three presents to each child in the area around and in Dulacca but the generosity of Sunshine Coast locals meant we had $6500 in cash to allow the local council to provide vouchers to needy families.” Jeff, his family and other Sunshine Coast volunteers sorted and packed the presents. To nominate someone for the monthly award email office@sunshinefm.com.au

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SURROUNDED by items used by women of past generations, Nambour Museum volunteers shared memories of the challenging activities of their forebears at their meeting on International Women’s Day. It was agreed that today’s women were given positive role models for what they can achieve by past generations. An old typewriter in the museum kindled Fay’s memories of her mother who left primary school in Chillagoe to learn typing at the local convent. “It is most likely she would have used a typewriter such as we have displayed in the

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When home is where your caravan is... The dream of buying a caravan and heading off into the sunset sounds like a grand plan but ROBERT WEBBER learnt some valuable lessons.

fter three years of deliberation we decided to buy a caravan. Within an hour of picking up the caravan, it seemed the biggest financial mistake of our lives. We had come a long way to get to this point as it was easier to buy a house than choose a caravan or camper. After staying in a cabin in a Broken Hill caravan park we decided not to buy anything. After all, for around $120 a night we enjoyed a large TV, a spacious kitchen, a separate toilet and a bathroom with a bath. It seemed to be financial madness to commit tens of thousands of dollars to a caravan. But one month later we paid a deposit on a new van. What happened? And why did it seem to go so wrong?

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After Broken Hill we stayed in another caravan park, this time in a vintage van, freshly spray painted for our visit. (We found the empty paint cans in the bin). It may have been cleaned prior to our visit but there were still spider webs next to the bed. The power lead for the electric oven did not reach the power point. The heater made

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This is a corollary of No. 7: Whatever you buy will be a compromise. No vehicle will do everything you want it to, whether it is a motorhome, caravan or camper. I am saving the most important lesson of all and it came as advice from a longtime caravanner. We thought we had bought our dream vehicle. It had enough bells and whistles to be a long-term investment, as we knew many people who were on to their third, fourth or even fifth camping vehicle. When Max ambled over to our camp to look at our van he told us that the first van should not be what you really want, but a very cheap one, and if you are still married or with your partner after a trip away in it, go get the van of your dreams. That is my lesson No. 8 and the most valuable lesson of all. We no longer have a van â&#x20AC;&#x201C; we decided to stay happily married instead.

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David Hamill – life after politics In 1989, he helped Wayne Goss usher in the first Labor government in 33 years and went on to oversee transport, education and the state treasury.

avid Hamill has ditched his trademark moustache, picked up a doctorate and joined the Order of Australia. Your Time catches up with the former politician turned company director. You were Queensland Parliament’s member for Ipswich for 18 years from ages 26 to 43, nine of those as a minister with the Goss and Beattie Labor Governments. Why did you retire? I always wanted to get out of Parliament while I was still young with time for another career. I’d seen some people stay there a very, very long time who came out bitter and twisted. I didn’t want that. How did you adjust to life on the outside? For me, getting out was on my terms. It’s different when people get defeated in their seat. I didn’t have the grieving often associated with that. I did miss my staff though. There’s a camaraderie that comes from banding together to face the common foe. Since leaving politics life does not appear to have slowed down. Your signature block is less a job title than a

rap sheet. How do all those roles translate into a weekly schedule? No week is quite like another. I’ve just concluded a nine-year term as Chairman of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service. I have a number of company commitments and I’ve just flown in from a meeting in New York. I also chair the board at Gladstone airport so head up there once a month. Is it just about being busy? No, I quite enjoy it. I didn’t want to simply immerse myself in corporate life. I wanted to keep community and charitable activities going. I’ve done that through my work with the Red

Cross and a stint on the University of Queensland Senate. I also chaired the Queensland Museum board for a while. Does that schedule leave time for any hobbies? One of my simple joys is my garden. I’m allowed to do certain menial tasks when it comes to the roses, shovelling the poo and so on. And the hedging, the edging and the mowing are my domain. I’m also learning Spanish. My daughter-in-law is from Buenos Aires and I told her I hope my grandchildren will be bilingual, so I thought I should put my money where my mouth is. You were pulled back into the limelight to manage flood relief for the Bligh Government in 2011. How did you find that? It was a challenging time. We never really knew how much money we had to distribute or how many people were affected. We were constantly redoing the maths. I think we achieved what we set out to do which was not sit on a pile of money. We ended up distributing more than $280 million over nine months. You left politics before social media

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hen television arrived in the 1960s, the old picture theatres began closing down or ran at a loss to small audiences. And before “talkies” there were silent films shown by itinerant “picture men” with their projectors and screens, who visited small towns and rented local halls. A pianist enhanced the action by matching the music to the suspense, romance, happiness, calamity or comedy, whatever the mood. The Majestic Theatre at Pomona opened in 1921 and is promoted as the oldest authentic silent movie theatre in the world, and the longest continually operating movie theatre in Australia. It began life as a country hall and was converted to a picture theatre. In 1931, the Majestic made the big move from silent films to the magical talkies but as the years passed, it couldn’t compete with the big, new cinemas. In the 1980s, it reverted to silent films. It had found its niche. The Son of the Sheik starring Rudolf Valentino with owner Ron West’s

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accompaniment on his restored Wurlitzer Pipe Organ proved very popular . This year, a 1937 Compton Pipe Organ is being installed and Chris Rose will play it. Patrons love the organ music and the old silent film comedians, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Harry Langdon and Charlie Chaplin. In April 1929, the Wintergarden Theatre in Brisbane pioneered talkies with The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson, “the singer with a tear in his voice”. Newspaper advertisements encouraged residents to visit Brisbane and be among the first to see “the

talkies”. My parents, Ted and Alma Low were on their honeymoon in Brisbane in April 1929 and went along. They never forgot the excitement and glamour of the occasion. The film was so successful that filmmakers around the world realised that talkies were the future of entertainment. Talkies came to the Nambour Town Hall in May 1931 and were so innovative that the shire chairman officiated. Maleny and Eumundi followed and Maroochydore opened in time for Christmas the same year. They were so popular with holidaymakers that in 1935, a new theatre opened in Maroochydore, with a capacity for 800 people. The program represented good value. First of all, the audience stood for the national anthem, God Save the King. There was Cinesound News and perhaps one or two of the following shorts - an episode of Perils of Pauline, a Tom & Jerry cartoon, a travelogue, or even a sing-along .

Two feature films followed with an interval of about 15 minutes. Who could forget great films such as Casablanca, Rebecca or The Great Years of our Lives? The Etheridge Brothers operated the two picture shows in local halls at Eumundi and Yandina. They would sometimes show the same two films on the same evening. One night, the fog was so bad on the road between the two towns they missed each other to exchange the films halfway. This new technology from Hollywood was not without its critics. With big attendances, people feared that Australians would soon be speaking with American accents and, even worse, using American slang. One patron wrote to the Nambour Chronicle complaining that he had attended the talkies and watched through a smoke screen as so many people continued smoking. Some people believed that talkies would never become popular. It is not the end of the story yet as filmmakers still vie for our attention.

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Reading on an iPad has its advantages writes COLIN DUNKERLEY, The iPad Man. And there are lots of other smart things to do as well.

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s each Anzac Day approaches, my thoughts travel across the oceans to remember Richard and Margerita. Richard only once had the chance to step upon this wide, brown land, while “Rita” never had the opportunity to make it here at all. Richard’s life was scarred from an early age, as his father lost his life to septicaemia, fighting with the 38th London Regiment during World War I, in March 1917. Richard was four. An adventurous life was clearly in the blood, however, as he signed up to the Royal Navy at an early age, joined World War II and survived the Blitz while stationed in London. By early 1942 he was based in the War Room at the Admiralty as a senior wireless officer, engulfed in the first unsuccessful attempt to sink the German battleship Tirpitz that skulked in a Norwegian fjord. Churchill himself frequently watched over the action. It was there that he met Rita, a WREN and fellow wireless operator. Richard’s love for music but his

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inability to play was seamlessly balanced by Rita’s in-depth knowledge of all music, her mother being a classical pianist and her father leader of Scotland’s Reid Orchestra. They became inseparable, taking in the countless plays, shows and concerts that maintained London’s fragile morale, and danced at clubs like there was no tomorrow. They married in 1943, although after the war Rita returned to her native Edinburgh to stay with her parents. Richard remained in various onshore and offshore naval roles, including serving on HMS Magpie

under Prince Philip, the future Queen’s husband, in 1951, and on aircraft carrier HMS Bulwark during the ’56 Suez Crisis. He became a sought-after radar specialist and commuted from Edinburgh to a secret Admiralty station near Blackpool to continue research. They began raising three children from 1949, and the future looked full of clear skies and great fortune. It was late 1961 when the cancer was detected on Rita’s breast. Her ageing parents did what they could to shoulder the parental load while Richard continued his essential commutes and sought to spend as much time at home as he could. Richard had visited Italy in 1932 while on shore leave and again, with Rita, in 1952, to stare awe-struck, like so many, at Raphael’s The Transfiguration in Pinacoteca Vaticana, and they earnestly hoped to re-visit the masterpiece in 1962. But the insidious cancer stripped away that final opportunity. Rita

succumbed in mid-1963, five months before Lee Harvey Oswald’s bullets in Dallas, Texas, would rip apart another fairy-tale romance. Richard managed to make the pilgrimage to The Transfiguration in 1972 and 1982 – and also made a short visit to Australia in 1983. In 1992, he proved to be a late casualty of World War II “friendly fire” of sorts – he fell victim to mesothelioma, contracted from the asbestos-laden handrails and pipes of the warships upon which he served. He died at age 80. And so, on April 25 each year, as I watch the old soldiers gather for their annual pilgrimage, I feel the great distance, yet close bonds that endured these many years ago – and am honoured and proud to turn my thoughts to my father, Lt Cmdr Richard Harcourt Lander, RN, and my mother, former WREN, singer, pianist, actor, and poet, Margerita Watt-Jupp, and thank them for all they did to find me here, safe, well and complete. Lest I forget.

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he BMWs of Germany have long been aspirational machines and these days there’s a welter of BMWs to reward hard and clever workers of all ages. The biggest single-selling model in Australia is the good-looking and well-credentialed BMW X5 wagon with 3 litre diesel engine. That’s a tourer for all seasons, albeit at the sharper end of the price list. Now, to encourage a fresh lot of customers from baby boomers to young families, BMW have two new cheaper SUVs on offer, the sX1 wagons starting at $49,900. While the Germans were a little slower than others - such as the Americans and Brits - in tackling the Sports Utility Vehicle market, it’s all action stations these days as SUV sales continue to climb across the western world. BMW prefers to catalogue their line up as SAVs - Sports Activity Vehicles. And in some ways this is a more righteous classification, for these machines are not the dual range,

high-riding four-wheel drives such as the Jeep Wagonner and Range Rover which gave rise to the SUV class. Many so-called SUVs today, some with only two-wheel drive, are good for riding over kerbs or heading for the snowfields on a miserable winter day or climbing the bank at the footy oval. Not so handy for bush or beach tracks. Still, this growing attraction of SUVs and faux-SUVs parallels to some extent the maturing of the Australian population. These vehicles offer higher driving positions, easier entry and egress, less

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WHEN it comes to wedded bliss, John and Lyn Call are just as in love as when they first met 33 years ago. Now retired and living at Buderim Gardens on the Sunshine Coast, Lyn, 66, and John, 79, say although the secret to a happy union is communication and laughter, their mutual love for gardening is just as important. “When we moved in here we had our work cut out for us,” John says. It wasn’t long before the duo created an Asianinspired yard, transforming the outdoor living area of their spacious two-bedroom home into a tranquil and modern zen garden. They have used space with vertical wall gardens, potted plants and striking colours. The stunning garden has given them time together and a beautiful space in which to relax and entertain. In fact, it has gained so much attention around the village that the creative couple are now helping others whip their own gardens into shape with private consultations. “It’s about showing people what you can create,” John says proudly. He also explains that designing your own backyard paradise can be easy with proper planning and good research. “We get a real kick out of sharing our love for gardening, which I think is what we’ve done so far at Buderim Gardens,” Lyn says.

SUNSHINE Coast Mayor Mark Jamieson was among the 220 guests at the launch of the Sunshine Coast’s newest over 50s lifestyle community. Halcyon Lakeside at Bli Bli is the third on the Sunshine Coast for awardwinning developer Halcyon. Construction has begun at the community within the master-planned Parklakes 2. Along with a 5-star lifestyle offering, Halcyon Lakeside overlooks two lakes with 450m of lake frontage and access to 6km of walking tracks. Project Director Chris Carley said interest was so strong that the first two releases of 52 homes in Stage One had sold out off the plan, prompting the early unveiling of Stage Two. Plans were also revealed for the multi-million dollar lifestyle and recreational precinct which will have a championship-size bowling green, tennis court, pickle ball courts, resort pool and a health and wellness centre. The centrepiece is the recreation club with a cinema, library and substantial lounge areas enjoying panoramic views. Halcyon joint managing director Bevan Geissmann said strong early buyer response reflected the demand for a new and sophisticated approach to retirement living on the Sunshine Coast.

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BENEFITS OF WALKING rehabilitation and the positive steps heart attack survivors can make for a healthier future. Walking more is one of the simple changes that can improve health and reduce risk. “Prevention is always better than cure and I encourage all Queenslanders to look at how they put some activity into their day,” Mr Vines said. The Heart Foundation Walking program has more than 5000 participants in Queensland and keen for new members. Joining a walking group is seen as a great way to get motivated and maintain commitment for regular activity. Heart Foundation Walking is proud to partner with Fitbit as a national sponsor and the Queensland Government as a State sponsor.

• It can help lower blood pressure and cholesterol, and reduce risk of heart attack • Helps improve overall health and wellbeing • Minimises health related medical costs • Helps reduce stress levels • Assists in maintaining a healthy weight • You feel more energetic, confident, happy and relaxed • Helps sleep better • Assists in proper balance and posture and the maintenance of healthy bones and strong muscles • It’s fun way to spend time with family and friends, and a great way to meet new people!

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Let go of past grief and enjoy the present Everyone has to let go of something at some time in their lives and as PETER SHIP writes, it is a healthy thing to do.

t’s difficult for parents when their child learns to walk, watching this little person pull themselves up while knowing there is a high probability that they will fall and get hurt. We cannot always be there to catch them but we must allow them to develop their skills and grow regardless of a few bumps and bruises along the way. I found it very difficult with our first child to let go and not be overly protective until I realised we learn from both good and not so good experiences throughout our lives. At some time we will all face the letting-go test, quite likely on numerous occasions. Sometimes it will be letting go of possessions or a driving licence, maybe a home so that we can downsize to something more manageable. It could be when we retire and have to let go of the security of having a job five days a week. Some folk may have to let go of good health or wealth. But regardless of who we are, or our

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status, health, children and grandchildren moving away, a lost pet, retirement, having to leave the farm. Being willing to “let go” helps us to grow and mature and sets us free from self pity that can lead us to the darkness of depression. It opens new doors to finding fulfilment as a volunteer or becoming creative or just being a better person to be around. Letting go allows us to experience new satisfaction with our lives that, although changed, can still be rewarding. We have our memories but that is not where we live right now. We don’t stop living just because we suffer loss. There is just one question we all must ask ourselves, “do I grasp the past or let it go?” How each of us responds to this question will determine our future, our attitudes, our happiness, our emotional stress, our health and wellbeing – as well as how often people will want to come and visit you.

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THE EYES HAVE IT A workshop to recognise, eliminate and replace habits that interfere with clear, comfortable vision will be conducted by Sunshine Coast Feldenkrais practitioner Robyn Lavery and her colleague DonnaRose McAneney. The Feldenkrais Method workshop will explore slow and pleasurable movements to refine the ability to feel differences in internal sensations. Robyn said it was surprising to discover how many muscles were attached to eyeballs and how other

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As we age and develop long-term medical problems, we can fall into the habit of simply getting prescriptions filled, warns DR CARON FORDE.

he time to speak to your doctor and review your medications is now. Are any of the tablets interfering with other tablets? Do you still need all the tablets? Are any of them giving you side effects? Is there a newer drug with less side effects? Medications need to be reviewed with your whole health in mind. Taking multiple drugs can be a balancing act between the tablets, your lifestyle and your illness so it takes time to review all the issues. For those of us who are not on any medications and otherwise fit and well, it is a good time to check the basics such as height, weight and blood pressure. Your doctor can do a complete physical examination to make sure you really are fit and well. What appears to be a simple physical examination is really a complex process of checking for all sorts of things – listening to heart and lungs, feeling your abdomen for lumps

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WHAT DID YOU SAY? Recognising hearing loss in yourself or someone you know is the first step to improving the situation. Among the first sounds to “disappear” are those in the higher frequencies. From the listener’s point of view these sounds include the voices of women and children, television voices and certain words at the beginning and end of sentences. If a hearing loss is suspected, make an appointment with a hearing professional for testing and evaluation. Your ability to hear is as unique as your fingerprint. That is, no two people have exactly the same hearing impairment.

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ST PATRICK’S DAY Caloundra Power Boat Club celebrated St Patrick’s Day with music from the five-piece Col Finley Band, followed by the big sounds of the Celtic ensemble Murphy’s Pigs. The award-winning bands, infectiously entertaining and masters of chaos on stage, had guests clapping and singing along.

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BATS stages a winner’s list BATS Theatre Company Inc. is showcasing a national playwriting competition with the works of two local and one Brisbane playwright taking centre stage. Before her death in 2003, BATS stalwart and local playwright, Edythe Brook Cooper, ensured her love of playwriting and theatre would benefit others when she established a trust to sponsor a biennial playwriting competition. The fruits of the 2016 Edythe Brook Cooper Playwriting Competition feature the three one-act play finalists - two comedies and a drama. Winners will be named at the final performance. The romantic comedy Love In A Food Court, is written by Hugh O’Brien of Toowong and is his 15th produced play. Hugh has won numerous awards for his comedies which have been produced in

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all states of Australia as well as in New Zealand and the UK. Love In A Food Court highlights the sometimes painful attempts to find love. Lead character Krystal suffers from June West Syndrome, causing the otherwise confident woman to become utterly tongue-tied whenever she encounters a single man she fancies. The other two finalists are Senses Working Overtime, a comedy/alternate reality written by Rob Attenborough of Mooloolaba and Feeding The Pigeons In Trafalgar Square, a

moving and thoughtprovoking drama penned by Bruce Olive of Buderim. It will be a night of diverse and entertaining theatre that celebrates local talent. Visitors will have the chance to vote for their favourite for the Audience Choice Award. Gala opening night, Friday, April 1, 7pm includes supper $30. April 2, 8 and 9 at 7.30pm; matinee April 3 at 2pm. Buderim War Memorial Hall, cnr Main and Church Sts, Buderim. Adults $25, concessions $23, members $21. Bookings batstheatre.com or call 5445 2515

THE Judy Henzell Sunshine Melodies Concert Series presents powerhouse singers Tenori, three of Queensland’s powerhouse singers - David Kidd, Craig Atkinson and Andrew Pryor. With a combined 60 years international experience in the industry, these polished professionals know how to put on a dynamic, uplifting and hugely entertaining show. They bring their sense of fun and sophistication to classics from the world of opera, music theatre and jazz and everything in between. The three met while touring internationally with

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SING-ALONG LIKE OLD TIMES SUNSHINE Coast seniors concert group The Merryatric Players are back with a fun Sunday afternoon of genuine Old Time Music Hall sing-alongs with theatrical interludes. Sing along with such music hall classics as Beer Barrel Polka, Knees Up Mother Brown, Lambeth Walk, Jolly Good Company, Glorious Beer and many more. The Events Centre, Caloundra. Sunday, April 3, 2pm. Tickets $22, concessions $20.

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MARY POPPINS INTO NOOSA WITH a spoonful of imagination, Noosa Arts Theatre leaps into the magical world of Mary Poppins. Everyone knows Mary Poppins, either from the eight P.L. Travers children’s classic books published over 54 years, the timeless 1964 Disney movie or the most recently released movie, Saving Mr Banks. “Noosa Arts Theatre’s forthcoming adaption of the loved Broadway musical differs from the traditional 1964 Disney film, offering greater depth for all age groups,” says director Neil Pattenden, who also plays Mr Banks. Let your imagination take flight – you know the words, the music and the

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THE POWER OF TEN THE Ten Tenors return with a spectacular new show, The Power of TEN, a celebration of their exhilarating and unique sound. They will present the most dynamic songs, soaring through classical arias to rock anthems. In a world-class performance they will show that “the Vocal Wonder from Down Under” can sing anything. Fans will be especially thrilled to hear the sheer power of The TEN Tenors’ signature version of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. After 16 years of sell-out performances around the world, The Ten Tenors are one of the most-loved classically based contemporary music groups. The Events Centre, Caloundra. Sunday, April 17, 3pm. Tickets $92.50 at theeventscentre.com.au or call 5491 4240

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WATCH THE YACHTS CELEBRATE one of Queensland’s most iconic sporting events this Easter, with the 68th QantasLink Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race at the Sandgate Bluewater Festival. The second biggest yacht race in Australia starts on Good Friday. There will be fireworks over the Shorncliffe Pier on Bayfire Night, Thursday 24, featuring live entertainment by moonlight, lantern parade, market stalls and gourmet food.

The 2016 Bluewater Festival celebrates the re-opening of the Shorncliffe Pier. This year’s Gladstone Yacht Race will be one of the biggest yet. From the start, yachts proceed via a mark off Redcliffe Point to the North West Channel up to Caloundra and through to Gladstone. Entrants will include the countries best race boats from Queensland as well as interstate rivals.

PIANIST COMES TO BRISBANE ACCLAIMED British-Australian pianist Stephen Hough returns to Australia for his fourth Musica Viva tour, bringing a recital program of great emotion and breathtaking virtuosity. Hough will open his Australian program with one of Schubert’s late sonatas, a “sonata of sighs”, thought to have been written just after the diagnosis of what was to be his final illness. Hough describes the whole of the first half as a big progression from darkness to light. Sonata No. 3, Trinitas, will make its Australian premiere on this tour.

Concluding the program are stunning pieces by Liszt. Conservatorium Theatre, 16 Russell St, South Brisbane. Tuesday, April 26, 7pm. Tickets $30-$97. Visit musicaviva.com.au

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Get in touch with essential Australia Some say Kaka-don’t but grey nomad BEVERLEY EVERSON says it’s most definitely Kakadu.

he World Heritage listed Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory covers nearly 20,000sq km and is one of the few places listed for both cultural and natural values. The exceptional beauty has a variety of landforms, habitats and wildlife. It is home to about one-fifth of Australia’s mammals, more than 2000 plant species, reptiles, frogs, tidal and freshwater fish species, more than 10,000 insect species and it provides habitats for about 290 bird species (more than one-third of Australia’s birds). Its wetlands hold international importance as a major staging point for migratory birds and some species are not found anywhere else in the world. The easiest way to get to Kakadu is by road (about 253km east of Darwin) which is bitumen sealed and excellent for driving. Kakadu is open year-round and seasons are divided into dry and wet. The park entry pass is based on two rates - dry season, April 1 to October 31 and tropical summer, November 1 to March 31. I would recommend a 14-day entry pass which does not include camping sites or accommodation but does include ranger-guided walks and talks. Should you wish to continue on to Arnhem Land a further permit is required from the Northern Land Council. For all information regarding entry passes and permits to Kakadu visit parksaustralia.gov.au/kakadu I visited at the end of the dry season so missed out on seeing Jim Jim and Twin Falls flowing and the water holes were low, with burn-off season already

Across flood plains – the spectacle of the sunburnt country.

underway on the floodplains. However, this opened up the land in a different light, from floodplains and billabongs to rugged stone country. Interpretive signs and educational and easy-to-understand talks by park guides, made the introduction and discovery of this ancient culture and the diverse landscape enthralling. Seasons dictate different attractions, with some closed by flooding during the tropical summer. Most non-Aboriginal people really only refer to the rain and dry seasons, but the Binini/Mungguy identify six seasons, subtle variations that signpost the transition from one season to another – changes in the weather, which plants are in flower and which bush foods are abundant. These are:

• Gunumeleng: mid-October to late December, pre-monsoon storm season with hot weather and building thunderstorms in the afternoons • Gudjeuk: January to March, monsoon season with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and flooding; the heat and humidity generate an explosion of plant and animal life • Banggerreng: April, the “knock ‘em down” storm season when floodwater recedes but violent, windy storms knock down grasses • Yekke: May to mid-June, relatively cool with low humidity. The Aboriginal people historically started burning the woodlands in patches to “clean the country” and encourage

new growth for grazing animals • Wurrgeng: mid-June to mid-August, the cold weather season with low humidity; most creeks stop flowing and the floodplains quickly dry out • Gurrung: mid-August to midOctober, hot dry weather with ever shrinking billabongs In the wet season the floodplains surge, creating a spectacle of colour and wildlife. In the drier months, constricting habitats create a flurry of bird activity at places such as the famous Mamukala wetlands. Bird hides offer views of the water birds, particularly the spectacular migratory magpie geese that come in their thousands. Egrets, jabiru and pelican are active. continued over>

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At the south entrance to the park is the Gaymarr Interpretive Centre at Mary River Roadhouse, one place where you can purchase your park passes. I highly recommend a visit to the informative Bowali Visitor Centre which is only a short drive from Jabiru, a small township in the middle of the park where you can buy fuel and limited supplies. It has a hotel, shopping centre (small), school, pool, bakery, caravan park and lodge and a small airport. Tourism is the main source of income but Jabiru once serviced the nearby Ranger uranium mine which is totally separate from Kakadu National Park. The open cut mining finished at Ranger in late 2012. Obviously, due to huge crocodile populations, swimming in the waterways is a bad idea. Signs constantly warn “Don’t risk your life – don’t swim”. Cahills Crossing is at East Alligator Creek where you cross over to Arnhem Land. From a viewing platform you can see many crocodiles at high tide vigorously swimming across the crossing which again alerts you to the size and power of these ancient creatures that have remained unchanged for 200 million years. Out of respect, no alcohol can be taken on any of the sacred sites/ walking tracks but you will need to carry lots of water. The camping grounds have excellent modern and clean amenities including hot showers. Most camp sites at Merl campground are individual. A sign at one of the stops reads: “Management and staff have no control

Ancient rock art

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representations of Namandi spirits and mythical figures. There is also an interesting example of “contact art” depicting a two-masted sailing ship with anchor chain and a dinghy trailing behind. Certainly the free ranger activities (included in your park entry pass) help visitors understand what the Manilagarr clan is sharing. For example some of the programs which run morning, afternoon and on dusk are: “A home through the ages” in the main art gallery, “Creation and Kinship” the Rainbow Serpent area, and “Stories on Stone” at Namarrkan Sisters arena. One of the signs has the best comment: “Pay attention to stories, get the feeling of peacefulness so that when you leave Ubirr, you will have learnt something. By Jacob Nayinggul, Manilagarr clan.” Every Australian should visit Kakadu, a unique opportunity to connect with aboriginal culture. Those who say Kakadon’t have not opened up their heart to the essence of this ancient land.

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A small waterfall in Hancock Gorge in Karijini National Park, Western Australia.

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Walk the Mile in my shoes History abounds, much of it gruesome, along with good food and wine, as RUSSELL HUNTER spends a day exploring Edinburgh’s famous Royal Mile.

dinburgh – the Athens of the North – has a perfectly serviceable airport. Turnhouse has links to Abu Dhabi and Dubai and on to Australia. But by far the best way to arrive is by train at the world’s only railway station named after a novel – Waverley. (The impressive memorial to its author, Sir Walter Scott, stands conveniently on Princes Street overlooking it). Waverley is more than a station. It’s a monument. Look up in what’s now the station shopping mall populated by chain stores and franchises for a glimpse of Waverley’s Victorian magnificence. Some of the original friezes are still there, plaintively begging for the restoration and recognition that we can only hope will be theirs. We emerge at the Market St entrance directly opposite

Waverley Railway Station

the art gallery where it would be easy to pass a day – but a few paces away stands the entrance to The Scotsman steps, named for what was once one of the world’s great newspapers, now brought low by a lack of vision and the scourge of the internet. The steps are each of different hued marble from various parts of the globe. Again, they could do with

some TLC (and they’re not now a place to be after dark) but that seems to be happening as the local authority finally realises that here is true heritage. The steps, which neatly link the Old Town at Market St to the New Town at Northbridge, scale the side of The Scotsman offices, a second home to generations of journalists of which mine,

sadly, is probably the last. The brass masthead still glitters proudly over the main entrance but the building itself is now a posh hotel. It’s a stiff climb but worth the effort as the final landing opens to Northbridge in time to consider breakfast options. A couple of doors from The Balmoral Hotel is Hadrian’s brasserie, a wee shoppie that proudly advertises its “full Scottish breakfast” which seems to be much the same as the English version with the added temptations of black pudding and haggis. Or, on nearby Princes St, there’s Jenner’s tearoom. It’s not the palm court experience it once was, with string and piano quintet, but there’s still something very old Edinburgh about the place where you can find real tea. We chose Jenners. Fortified now against the

icy blast that scours the city seemingly at all times of the year, we begin a walk down Northbridge and quickly intersect High St. Now we’re on “the Mile”, stepping through history. Turning left, we’re headed towards the palace of Holyrood, official home to Scottish monarchs and their British successors for six centuries or so. Ignore the tartan tatt shops along the way to discover Aitchiesons. Possibly the last remaining independent bottler of wines and spirits in the land, they buy by the barrel, blend it and bottle it. Next is John Knox House. Built in 1490, its association with the fire and brimstone preacher so pivotal in the blood-soaked Scottish Reformation is tenuous. Knox may have lodged here at some stage in the 1580s but he lived not far away, a

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View down the historic Royal Mile

few yards up High St, at Warriston Close. He certainly didn’t have far to travel for his debates with Queen Mary on the true religion while she was still in possession of her head. Knox would have taken a very jaundiced view of today’s Royal Mile with its countless tourist traps and bars. It’s not too early for a cup of mulled wine (to keep out the cold) at the World’s End. This old pub gets its name from its location at one of the gates of the early mediaeval city which for the city folk of the time marked the end of the known world. All that remains are brass cobbles on

Canongate where the snow, as promised, starts to fall and makes the Old Tolbooth Bar a welcome haven. Here are beers, wines and spirits with possibly the city’s best fish and chip shop directly opposite. But we have another plan. Fortified by a generous serving (this pub dispenses one-third gills as opposed to the standard one-fifth) of Balvenie single malt, we retrace our steps through the dark street in the lightening snow. A crowd huddled around a narrator on the steps of the Old

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On the edge of a beach, where waters are gentle, there is a choice of beachfront, plantation and ocean breeze bures, each in traditional style blending into the village landscape. Enter this world and cares disappear. While there is a huge resort swimming pool for families, there is also a big adults-only pool area, a brilliant spot for those who want to read and quietly sip their cocktail. On top of the hill crowning the resort, is the Bebe (Fijian for butterfly) Spa, offering all sorts of massage and body treatments. Hard to resist with descriptions such as: “The smooth surface of warmed Fijian shells relaxes sore muscles” or “fresh Fijian sugar cane crystals, virgin coconut oil and nut extracts buff away aging skin cells” or the “royal honey and milk” ritual. The resort has a firewalking arena, fitness centre, tennis courts and golf driving range, bars, a range of restaurants, a huge breakfast buffet and all the other features expected of a resort holiday but above all, it has the people, Fijians who are always singing and greet guests as their new friends. So, for the holidaymaker, yes there is plenty to do if you want to; the big question is, why would you want to

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BOOK REVIEW

ELIZABETH PASCOE

Opening the book I realised I did not know very much about Pakistan - a country with a history of political turmoil and the rise of the Taliban. I was about to be enlightened – a loving mother, two young sons, a father who believes his daughter has a right to be educated and who owns a school for both girls and boys. In 2007 the Taliban swept into power and mayhem ensued. The army ousted the terrrorists in 2009, and the following year a devastating flood in Swat killed 2000 people. Then came a normal day, sitting in the bus with two other girls, when a chap with a motorbike helmet beckoned the driver to stop, walks down to the girls and Malala is shot. This is when the story really begins - a triumph of good over evil which cuts across all nationalities and cultures.

TONY HARRINGTON

This book is a great educational and entertaining read. It constantly reminds us of how fortunate we are to live in the “Lucky Country”. Good triumphing over evil is a great theme for a book “... the Taliban arrived in the night just like vampires... they decreed that girls could not get an education and started bombing schools and killing anyone who disagreed.” Malala is shot, survives, forgives and becomes a passionate advocate of education for girls. She won the Nobel Peace prize in 2014 for her humanitarian work. “There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a third power stronger than both, that of women.” Malala has used two of these powers to great effect for girls and women in the Muslim and third world. Bravo Malala 8/10

BOOK review JOHN KLEINSCHMIDT From birth, her father declared that “Malala would be free as a bird” and his love for his daughter nurtured a passion in her for equality in education. Males were favoured by her Muslim culture and Islamic faith. Malala’s mother supported her resistance to the dictates of the ruthless and cruel Taliban that sought to deny education and freedoms to girls. A very young Malala showed exceptional courage in speaking out at local, regional, national and international forums, ultimately paying a heavy personal price for her effectiveness and dedication to the cause. Not a great read but provides a useful insight into Pakistan and the Taliban.

SHEILA BRYDEN

I AM MALALA By Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb

When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was 15, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at pointblank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, her recovery has taken her from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the UN in New York. I Am Malala is the tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls’ education, of a father who encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons.

I discovered all of the elements of a great thriller - terrorism, violence, suspense, unexpected twists and turns, an intelligent and determined heroine - and yet I had to stop frequently to remind myself that the story of Malala was real. The book was co-written by Christina Lamb and there were a few instances that her voice, rather than Malala’s, came through but this did not diminish the sincere message from 16-year-old Malala - education for all, respect everyone’s beliefs and learn to live in peace. Historical references were sometimes confusing but some research helped me understand some of the complexities of that region. This is compulsory reading for high school students and if the pen really is mightier than the sword, it will go a long way in influencing the opinions of others.

JO BOURKE

MARY BARBER Malala is an ordinary teenage girl. She hates getting up in the mornings. Her room is a mess. Yet along with her father, she becomes an international advocate for the education of girls. This is a well-constructed autobiography that gives us an insight into everyday life before and during the rise of the Taliban. The experiences and missed opportunities of her parents play a big part in how Malala is encouraged and supported. After Malala was shot her family moved to England, where they still live. With so many thousands of displaced persons flooding into Europe in 2015, Malala’s comments about home and homesickness are worth pondering.

I read this book slowly, absorbing the history of the Swat Valley, the struggle to build schools for boys and girls, the fear that the Taliban spread. Inevitably I found myself comparing Malala’s life with the privileged life we have in Australia. I wondered how brave I would have been. The first and ongoing hero in this story is Malala’s father Ziauddin. When Malala was born “he even asked friends to throw dried fruits, sweets and coins into her cradle” a custom usually reserved for baby boys. He instilled in Malala the longing for education and the belief that it was a right for all. We see Malala in the news today and she is a hero, healthy and beautiful. It is easy to forget the horrifying extent of her injuries, her lengthy rehabilitation and the need for the whole family to live in England away from their beloved Swat Valley. This book would be ideal for high school students.

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PERMUTATE WORLD, DRAWL, CRAWL, CLEAR, PLACE, PEACE There may be other correct answers

SCATTERWORD HOWSOEVER, whosoever, whosever, however, whoever, oversew, soever, swerve, hooves, shover, shrove, serve, sever, verse, hover, shove, verso, vower, ever, veer, hove, over, rove, wove.

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ACROSS

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If you have it personally adapted it may give us domestic problems (10) 2 Surreptitiously peer at something they do again (6) 3 Exonerate the obvious (5) 4 The cup sank rapidly but now gets things out of the case (7) 5 Can the cunning mouse trap an unlucky raven using tactical moves? (10) 7 One way to prepare food for your mates, possibly (5) 9 Amaze Edward with characters that are underdeveloped (7) 10 It’s not fair dinkum to go back in the passenger transport (5) 13 We sent out the letters that were the least aged (6) 15 Give a portion to everyone to bring back (5)

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No. 703

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No. 27

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No. 750

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Form at least one nine letter word from the given letters and as many other words as possible of four or more letters. Each word must contain the letter in the central circle. Simple plurals, formed by adding “s” are not counted as extra words. No prefixes or suffixes. Reference: The Macquarie Concise Dictionary.

PERMUTATE

ACROSS 3 9 10 11 12 15 16 20 21 22 23 25 27 29 31 32

Situated in the direction of the arctic Infuriate Taken by mouth Shining brightly Former student of a particular school Tibetan monk Most intoxicated Measures in circle Lyric poems Small truck Container Excuse Act of retaliation Bird’s dwelling Chirps Style of Indian cooking

35 Aquatic respiratory organ 36 Make beloved 37 Sideboards with drawers and shelves

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Transfer Deeply disturbing experience 3 The opposites of positives 4 Fish eggs 5 Platters 6 Pig meat 7 Omitted a letter in pronunciation 8 Evenings 13 “Foetal” insects 14 Angrier

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Your aim is to change the top word one letter at a time, each time rearranging the letters to create a new word. Perform one such permutation for each blank line until you arrive at the last word. There may be more than one correct solution.

WORLD

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