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We have put together a wide range of stories from national art hero Ken Done to people in the neighbourhood and the things they do to bind together a healthy, happy community.

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Winter is a great time on the Goldie

THIS month’s cover story on Ken Done heralds a wave of nostalgia.

In an instant the thought of those brilliant hues takes you back to the 1980s.

For many it was a time of renovating old beach-houses and ageing inner-city homes, carefully scraping back the bright oranges and mission browns of the 60s and 70s and thoughtfully re-instituting the colours of federation fashion – maroons, creams, deep greens.

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a hot Aussie afternoon, Ken Done saturated us with his astounding abstract pictures and Aussie colours.

It was refreshing, fun and new and reflected the colours of our Aussie home.

This month editor Gail Forrer and digital producer Taya Sweeney attended

The International Federation of Ageing 13th Annual Global Conference, sponsored by WHO – World Health Organisation – and COTA in Brisbane.

You can read and listen to fascinating viewpoints and studies by thought leaders at www.facebook.com/ seniorsnews or www.seniorsnews.com. au.

The Gold Coast reveals a beauty of its own in winter – crisp, clear mornings and shimmering, sun-touched waters.

It’s a good time to go for a long hike, and entrants in the Kokoda Challenge aren’t daunted by the gruelling 96km track through the hinterland.

And in this issue, we also honour volunteers who work to better the lives of those around them. Spare a thought for the homeless, and contribute to the “blanket” collection being organised by funeral homes and the Salvation Army.

Seniors reporter Yvonne Gardiner is happy to receive your story tips, call her on 0411 622 720.

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It’s all about good team camaraderie, at any age Company culture values attributes of senior workers deliberate recruitment strategy to employ people from within a certain age bracket; this is just the way it has happened organically,” he said.

“We do have a lot of staff who have been with us for a long time, who may have started in their 30s and grown up with the business.

“Our own HR surveys have shown that the people who work with us don’t feel like they are just a number – they feel valued and appreciated, which comes down to our long history of being a family-owned, small-to-medium local business.”

The local company is proud to be a part of a trend which is seeing a growing number of Australian employers

actively seeking to hire mature-aged workers based on their experience and work ethic, while also offering employment opportunities to an ageing population.

“We have an advantage because most of our mature sales staff work the same hours each week, and they get to know regular customers by name and by what they order, and the customers really appreciate it,” Martin said.

“Without wishing to alienate our many wonderful younger workers, we generally find our older team members to be more reliable and able to build a better rapport with our clientele – many of whom are in that mature-age bracket themselves.”

Martin has noticed a trend of more mature-aged workers looking to join the team in recent years, as retirees sought to offset the impact of savings and superannuation lost during the global financial crisis, or simply craved the camaraderie and social interaction of the retail environment.

“We are always looking for good team members to join our retail team. We do have a lot of staff, but there are opportunities for people who fit our culture and might be looking for a long-term position,” Martin said.

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Goldsteins director Martin Goldstein said 37% of the company’s 102 employees were aged between 50 and 69.

Most were in customer service positions across 12 bakeries, as well as administration staff and bakers, pastry chefs and cake decorators at the Molendinar headquarters.

Martin said the company’s work culture had led to high employee retention rates, which in turn resulted in a rising number of older workers, as loyal staff members stayed with the company for many years.

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Living with a piece of Ken Done Gail Forrer

IN THE 1980s Ken Done came to town and everyone invited him home.

He stepped inside with abstract images, a rich, vibrant palette and presented his celebration of colour on mugs, doonas, curtains and cushions. We wore his signature dresses, t-shirts and swimmers. We drank with Ken Done cups, we wore Ken Done clothes and we slept with Ken Done quilts.

Here was a man who sensed the Australia that we felt – the heat of the yellow sun, the rich blue wash of the Pacific ocean.

He caught the vibration of native animals and reflected back to us the perfumed colour of our favourite flora.

He was talking to all of us who loved and lived on the Australian coastline.

Forty years after connecting beach loving Australians with their sun soaked coastline, artist Ken Done is taking us to the polar opposite – Antarctica.

Inspired by a trip last year to the ice-riven landscape, he has recently completed a series of 30 paintings, Paintings from Antarctica.

From the man who so skilfully interpreted the intensity of the Australian sun, the show presents his unique expression of a

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dramatically different continent.

Yet, home is where his heart remains. At 76 years old, Ken Done’s inner artist is still fed by the surrounding beauty of his Chinaman’s Bay property along with the bigger picture of Sydney and regular world travels.

His long-term home and 35-year-old marriage to Judy proves that very early on, Ken realised the elements of sustainable joy.

“Judy are I are like-minded,” he said.

“And we have a shared visual understanding.

“But in 50 years there are hills and valleys, and you just have to find way to get through them.”

The couple also share two children and to their great delight, three grandchildren.

Ken said a great happiness came from having his grandchildren in the art studio.

He sets up the studio before their arrival and then it’s a time for fun and freedom.

In fact, the youngest has coined him the

IN THE FRAME: Ken Done has recently completed a series called Paintings from Antarctica.

“Fundad”.

This year, Ken wrote his memoir A Life Coloured In and recalled his own years as young artist and how he used it to express his himself.

“Being a before TV

child,” he wrote, “I used drawings all the time to communicate what I felt about something.”

He keeps fits with daily swims and a dally in the fresh air as he feeds the local parrots.

He doesn’t mind a game golf but admits to falling asleep watching television.

This year he is preparing for a trip to islands off Scotland and he is looking forward to

making more memories.

“You can’t look back for a second,” he said.

“People around my age can still have a lifetime ahead of them.”

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Register and enjoy free Gold Coast transport GOLD Coast seniors will be able to travel free on local buses for another four years.

Mayor Tom Tate and the Queensland Minister for Transport Stirling Hinchliffe made the announcement on June 22, ahead of the delivery of the City Budget.

“Following its tremendous success, free seniors bus travel will now remain in effect until June 2020,” Cr Tate said.

“Thanks to an agreement with TransLink, we have now secured a deal which will provide seniors with free travel

Since the program began in September 2013, more than two million trips have been made by Gold Coast seniors on TransLink buses.

Labrador Seniors’ Centre co-ordinator Megan Shirley said many of the seniors who attended the centre used public transport.

“They catch the bus, come to our centre, see friends, do arts and craft, yoga and a host of other things which keeps them active and makes them feel a real part of the community,” she said.

Free seniors bus travel will now remain in effect until June 2020.

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every week-day between 8.30am and 3.30pm.

“With more than 26,000 already registered for this program, this is wonderful news for our city’s seniors. It improves their quality of life and empowers them to be more independent.”

FREE RIDE: Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate (left) and Minister for Transport Stirling Hinchliffe, with senior bus traveller Sarah and Councillor Kristyn Boulton at the Labrador Memorial Senior Citizens Centre.

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To be eligible for free bus travel, passengers must hold a TransLink Seniors red go card, be a Gold Coast resident and complete an application.

Registered free travel seniors are provided with a sticker to attach to their go card which they simply show to the bus driver when they board.

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Appeal for blankets to bed down

Business joins with Salvos to warm homeless AS THE temperature drops on the Gold Coast, an appeal has been launched to collect blankets for homeless and disadvantaged people.

Invocare funeral homes and The Salvation Army have joined forces in a winter blanket appeal across Queensland and Northern NSW. For every blanket donated by a member of the public, Somerville Funerals at Nerang and Southport, and Metropolitan Funerals at Southport, will hand over a new blanket to The Salvation Army.

Fundraising and public relations manager for The Salvation Army (Gold Coast and Northern Rivers), Rowan Johnstone, said blankets were needed at Salvos Connect Centres, Gold Coast Accommodation Service and Gold Coast Recovery Services.

“Throughout Queensland, NSW and the ACT each night, 2500 clients of The Salvation Army are accommodated in crisis traditional housing, long-term or resident-funded services.

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This winter we are again responding to the needs of some of the most disadvantaged.

Each week over 4500 people are provided with a bed,” he said. “(A total of ) 44,083 homeless people – 42% of Australia’s homeless – in the 2011 census were children and youth under 25 years. That’s an increase of 17% since the last census in 2006.”

The Salvation Army and

Salvos stores are involved in Homeless Connect at Metricon Stadium on August 3.

This event, in its ninth year, brings together service providers from the government and community sector to create a one-stop shop event that gives homeless people a day of recreation, entertainment, personal care and access to support services.

“The Salvos provide the blankets and work with other members of the Gold Coast Homelessness Network to make this day happen,” Rowan said.

The funeral homes’ regional manager Christine Walters said some men, women and children would struggle to keep warm, especially the homeless and those affected by drug addiction and mental illness.

“This winter we are

JOINING FORCES: Salvos store manager Tyson McConnell, Invocare regional manager Chris Walters and Still Waters accommodation services manager Mona Nielsen collect blankets for the homeless.

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again responding to the needs of some of the most disadvantaged in our community with a blanket donation drive, to give warmth and comfort to those in need,” Christine said.

Blankets can be dropped at the following locations: ■ Somerville Funerals – Nerang-Broadbeach Road, Nerang, and 65 Nind Street, Southport ■ Metropolitan

Funerals – 44 Nind Street, Southport For details on how you can donate or to volunteer at Homeless Connect, contact the Gold Coast Youth Service on 5572 0400.

Coast ratepayers look forward to low rate rise GOLD Coast city residents will pay the lowest annual rate increase of any south-east Queensland council – adding to five consecutive years of low rate increases.

Mayor Tom Tate said the average residential rates and charges would increase 1.69% in 2016-17.

“We have done this without any special levies to fund the upcoming Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games or stage one of the cultural precinct which is now under way,” Cr Tate said.

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Team honours veterans ❝ The gruelling Kokoda Challenge pays tribute to WW2 Diggers

The 96km hilly course around the Gold Coast Hinterland was designed to mimic the horrendous terrain found on the PNG Kokoda Track. It has steep hills, slippery descents and many ridges, as well as a dozen creeks.

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“Last year I remember seeing a team with one walking backwards, due to an injury, two supporting her and the fourth member guiding them to the finish line,” Peter said.

“This to me is the spirit of our Kokoda Diggers and what this challenge strives for – endurance, courage, sacrifice and mateship.

“This is one of many memories that highlights the atmosphere that

surrounds and motivates us during this event. This is what keeps us coming back each year.”

This is the family’s third year of participation, and it’s never a walk in the park.

“The 96km hilly course around the Gold Coast Hinterland was designed to mimic the horrendous terrain found on the PNG Kokoda Track,” Peter said.

“It has steep hills, slippery descents and many ridges, as well as a

dozen creeks and causeways to negotiate.

“It is called the toughest team endurance event in Australia and, having competed in it, we can testify to its diabolic nature.

“To continuously trek all 96km takes a very determined mind and physical endurance where blisters, joint and muscle fatigue or even injury can cause issues.”

Peter’s team members have been transformed from “beach walkers to endurance hikers”.

“The main reason for entering this challenge is fitness for us.

“As we grow older, it is important to exercise and this training provided that in bucketfuls.

“I lost about 10 kilos,

TOUGH TIMES: Peter Wintour with his family team (from left) sister Josephine Seaton, youngest daughter Kelly and wife Tina enjoy a magnificent view of the Gold Coast while on the Kokoda Challenge trek.

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A GRUELLING Gold Coast event honours the spirit of Australia’s World War 2 Diggers and the sacrifices they made back in 1942 on the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea while fighting the Japanese.

The Kokoda Challenge Gold Coast, hailed as the toughest team endurance event in Australia, involves teams of four tackling 96km – the distance of the Kokoda Track – through the Gold Coast hinterland within a time limit of 39 hours – in honour of the 39th Militia, who were the first Australian response unit at Kokoda.

Mermaid Waters entrant Peter Wintour includes his wife, sister and daughter in his team, named the Logan and Beaudesert Bushwalkers after their bushwalking

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Family affair for annual cultural fest

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THE Gold Coast Multicultural Festival is an annual event the whole family can enjoy.

Festival association president Ben Brauer said the celebration on Sunday, August 7, would be an unprecedented display of culture including international music, dance, drumming, instrumentals, art and craft, food and cultural information – with up to 65 stalls.

“There will also be international performers on three festival stages, children’s rides and activities,” he said.

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Abuse can occur in all manner circumstances but some of the most common are as follows:• Financial abuse – unlawfully using an Enduring Power of Attorney or illegal/unauthorised use of a persons’ bank eftpos card or making threats to an elderly person to extort money from them; • Intimidation and psychological abuse – taking advantage of an elderly person’s frail personality and forcing them to live in circumstances that they do not wish to, including threats and other behaviour designed to have the elderly person do things against their will; • Failing to properly care for elderly people in circumstances where they require assistance with basic living, dietary requirements and helping with the basics of living (this is separate to the issue of elderly people refusing to accept help); • Physical abuse – there have been cases of trusted family members physically assaulting elderly persons in order to extract money from them and/or to continue living arrangements against their will • Falsely taking advantage of an elderly person’s trust in order to have them change their Will so they leave some or all of their estate to them instead of their family or a preferred charity.

These are just some of the issues affecting our elderly people and families and are probably just the tip of the iceberg.

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Most States have an Elder Abuse Helpline or Unit that has been specifically set up to deal with elder abuse enquiries. The Units for Queensland and New South Wales are as follows:- Queensland Elder Abuse Prevention Unit 1300 651 192 www.eapu.com.au; New South Wales Elder Abuse Helpline 1800 628 221 www.elderabusehelpline.com.au For any urgent physical threats, elderly people can dial emergency 000 or their local Police Station. Elderly people should understand that there is always a better option available to them and that no-one should suffer this type of abuse, no matter what their circumstances are, without fear of repercussions.

Legal Options available. Another option available to all elderly people is to obtain proper legal advice in relation to their rights with respect to abuse by relatives or trusted family members who they have appointed as attorneys or guardians.

You should ensure that you obtain appropriate legal advice from lawyers who are experienced in this area and have knowledge of health authorities and other Government instrumentalities that can assist elderly people who are in this position. Quite often the abusive family members or friends who hold powers of attorney on behalf of the elderly people use these legal documents to continue the abuse and attempt to hide behind what they maintain is the mental incapacity of the elderly person.

As lawyers experienced in this area, we often come across this situation where we are contacted by a long standing client about possible financial misuse of a Power of Attorney, only to find that the relative has a carefully crafted story and blames the mental incapacity of their elderly parent or grandparent. Lawyers experienced in this area can assist elderly people to work through these issues and obtain the necessary assistance. Sometimes this means that an application will need to be made to the appropriate Tribunal for an order appointing alternative financial managers and/or guardians for an elderly persons’ affairs. In some cases the Queensland Public Trust Office or NSW Trustee & Guardian may also have to be approached to be appointed to handle someone’s affairs if there are no suitable family members or friends that are prepared to act as financial managers or guardians.

Parents and grandparents can plan in advance and make sure that whoever they appoint as their attorneys and guardians are truly trusted members and you should always appoint at least two trusted people to handle your affairs and make sure that it is a joint appointment. This way it is unlikely that the two people that you have appointed would both collude to abuse the appointment as attorney or guardian (if you are concerned about this, then you should appoint an independent professional such as lawyer or accountant to accompany the trusted family member). This will ensure that your affairs are handled properly, even after you have lost capacity or are simply unable to handle your affairs due to illness or injury. Make sure you obtain advice from lawyers who specilaise in this complex area. It is usually beyond the local small firm who do conveyancing.

If you are a victim of elder abuse, do not hesitate to contact the relevant Helpline in your State or Territory. If the abuse is imminent and physical, please ring your local Police or dial 000. You should also confide in your treating General Practitioner or visiting Health Professionals and they will make sure that the appropriate persons are notified and that help can be provided. Alternatively, contact your lawyers and have them review your Enduring Power of Attorney and Enduring Guardian. These are very important documents that everyone should regularly review and make sure that their affairs are going to be handled independently and with your best interests in mind.

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TERRIFIC TRIO: Foundation members (from left) Margo Campbell, Mary Lems and Sylvia Gradwell take centre stage at U3A Twin Towns’ 25th anniversary celebration.

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U3A Twin Towns’ members showed off their new-found dancing skills at a 25th birthday celebration on June 24.

This branch of U3A boasts 300 members and caters for both Gold Coast and Tweed residents.

Its birthday party was held at the Tom Atkin Hall, Tugun.

Mary Ludwig, of Banora Point, picked up a 20-year service award at the event.

Branch president Robyn Clark said Mary tutored in yoga, light exercise, and movement to music classes.

“Mary has been doing so much for U3A. “She’s always been a supporter,” Robyn said.

Mary refused to give her age, saying: “I’ve been 68 for a few years now, and

Banora Point resident Mary Ludwig (left) is presented with her 20-year service award by U3A Twin Towns president Robyn Clark.

U3A’s belly dancers entertain at the 25th birthday party.

BELOW: U3A classmates show their tap skills.

I’m not moving further.”

She moved from Townsville before joining U3A Twin Towns.

“I had been doing fitness work and yoga there,” she said.

“I had to have an interest, to continue with my work, so I found U3A within two weeks.”

Publicity officer Ruth Voss says, with U3A, “you can be a tutor in one class and a member in another”.

“We have academic classes but you don’t sit exams,” she said.

“You don’t get stale in life.”

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International perspective Gail Forrer reports ideas from global experts OLDER people are a diverse demographic, who have proven to be of great help during disasters and emergency situations rather than needing help according to experts at the International Federation of Ageing 13th annual Global Conference held in Brisbane June 21-23.

While a panel of global experts talking about catastrophes and the older person presented statistics showing extremely high mortality rate next to other age groups during natural disasters, they also urged policy makers to recognise the ageing population’s diversity.

Godfrey Paul, senior regional manager of HelpAid international, wasted no time in giving us a reality check. He said the 21st century as we thought it would happen had not arrived.

He said we had

envisaged a contemporary world a shrunk in time and space, a tightly knit global village. Instead we have a world of war and hate. At the same time we are faced with two mega trends simultaneously converging on us – Ageing and Climate Change.

Along with fellow panellists discussing the older person and natural catastrophes, he called for the stereotypical definition of the older person as the passive recipient, to be replaced with a recognition of the demographic’s diversity.

Dr Lisa Brown, of California, was on the same page, but went further and suggested that older people should be considered for volunteer roles during emergencies. She said that older people could be seen as a resource for assisting, not necessarily in need of assistance.

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does not make a person vulnerable. We do not place all teenagers and infants in the same category, but if a person has grey hair, we assume they are vulnerable and need services.

“We need a new narrative.”

She said disaster planning could be an opportunity for community development, that it was a time to talk about needs, support and peer education.

Professor Junko Otani, of Osaka University, noted that Japan had the largest ageing population in the world. She called Japan a “super ageing society”.

She emphasised that data revealed that during natural disaster it was peer groups and neighbours who helped the older person rather family members, thus realising the importance of social engagement in disaster planning.

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Things don’t have to get tougher as you get older Gail Forrer

IF YOU think things get tougher as you get older, it’s time to think again.

Over a three-day period global speakers at The nternational Federation of Aging, 13th Global Conference (June 21–23) introduced a range of new knowledge aimed towards the wellbeing of an ageing demographic.

Speakers included: Oxford Academic Dr Sarah Harper, Professor of Gerontology and Senior Research Fellow Nuffield College. a world leader in planning for the new demographic of ageing people. She attributes the new demographic to a

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She talks of challenges and opportunities. The practicalities of technology will support independent living through home aids. In terms of mature-age employment she cited a particular car manufacturer where robots released older workers from manual labour and increased

their working life through the provision of physically easier computer generated design work.

Dr Bradley Willcox is a physician-investigator in geriatrics and gerontology and the man who told us about the health secrets of the long living Okinawa people. Along with a scientific team and his anthropologist twin brother, he examined the dietary habits of what is known as longest living people in the world. Sweet potatoes, he told me, played the biggest role in their diets, particularly purple ones, this along with jasmine tea and miso.

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$1.1m in budget for vision-impaired MINISTER’S MESSAGE CORALEE O’ROURKE VISION Australia in Coorparoo will benefit from more than $1.1 million in funding, set to support people who are blind or have low vision to continue living independently in their communities.

Disability Services Minister Coralee O’Rourke said the funding was part of a $1.7 billion allocation for disability services in this year’s State Budget,

which reaffirmed the government’s commitment to improving the lives of people with disability.

“Our government is proud to fund organisations like Vision Australia, to continue to provide much-needed services and supports to people who are blind or have low vision,” Mrs O’Rourke said.

“This funding will help to provide accommodation support, learning and life skills support, therapy support, social outings, adaptive communication support, technology training, information library services, and

information referrals services.

“It will also help to deliver education and training services, so clients can get ‘job-ready’ by learning new skills and improving their workplace knowledge.

“Above all, this funding will help to develop creative solutions and tailored strategies to support clients to live as independently in their communities as they choose.

“Supporting people with disability to recognise their goals and aspirations, whether it is to live independently or enter the workforce, is

particularly important as Queensland transitions to the National Disability Insurance Scheme.”

Member for Greenslopes, Joe Kelly said Vision Australia in Greenslopes provided important and necessary support to help people who are blind or have low vision to develop the confidence and skills to get out and about safely and independently.

“Vision Australia does amazing work, and is helping to change the lives of people who are blind or vision impaired,” Mr Kelly said.

For more, visit www.budget.qld.gov.au.

Seniors did warn pollies before voting IN DECIDING how they would vote on Saturday, health care and the economy were the key drivers for older Australians, according to a national survey by Australia's leading seniors advocate, COTA Australia.

COTA CEO Ian Yates said a national survey of older Australians had made it clear all parties need to better address the five key areas of health, aged care, retirement incomes, employment, and housing in their election policies.

"Thirty per cent of voters this election will be over 60 years of age, and half of those are over 70, which makes us an

increasingly powerful voice politically," Mr Yates said last week.

"Our election panel of more than 1145 older Australians clearly voiced what is important to them and what needs to be done to make sure Australia is ready for the challenges and opportunities an aging population presents.

"Overwhelmingly the three top election issues for older Australians are access to quality health care services (77%); having adequate pensions (62%) and access to good quality aged care (57%).”

For more info, visit http://www.cota.org. au.

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The QCWA parties on PARTIES are a time to celebrate but how do you create party food that zings and is healthy for your guests? The Mystery Box is the answer! Gold Coast residents enjoyed a culinary treat on June 24 when Queensland Country Women’s Association (QCWA) Mermaid Beach hosted the fifth Country Kitchens workshop in their rooms at Mermaid Beach.

The Mystery Box was a three-hour, hands-on foodie session which tackled the dilemma of preparing party food – can canapes and cocktail foods be tasty and nutritious without being oily and high in saturated fat, sugar and salt? The stress-free recipes, demonstrated by a team of nutritionists, provided healthy alternatives.

Fully qualified nutritionists, led by food expert Fiona McKenzie, travel with a mobile kitchen and teach local residents how to prepare quick and easy, highly nutritious home-cooked meals using more seasonal fruit and vegetables. www.qcwa.org.au/ countrykitchens or follow on facebook.

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Liberty, formerly Nerang Community Respite Care, has a portfolio of fantastic social groups, leisure and lifestyle programs and in-home support services.

Community development officer Anita Ryan said Liberty was about being inclusive with the community, socialising and having fun.

“We have such an enthusiastic and experienced team of staff and volunteers. We really are unique to service provision, with a focus on low-care needs and connecting people on the Gold Coast,” she said.

“We have been providing support for more than 25 years and we now

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Broadbeach Ladies Probus Club meet every second Tuesday of the month at Kurrawa Surf Club, Broadbeach, at 9.30am. Visitors and prospective members are most welcome. Come along and join us or phone Patricia on 5575 5284 or Christa on 5575 5045 for more information.

Waters Community Centre. Nominally a men’s club but wives or partners are very welcome to share the club’s fellowship, friendship and fun. In addition to the monthly general meeting, the club’s activities committee arrange an outing on the first Monday of each month. For info contact Brian 5520 6332 or Colin 0427 272 829 or visit www.probusburleigh waters.org.au.

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At our general meetings on the third Monday of each month, we have a guest speaker and our most recent speaker was Roberta Cava from Crime Stoppers. After our meetings, most of our group enjoy extra fellowship over lunch at the Burleigh Sports Club.

Some also participate in a social lunch on the fourth Monday of the month at Club Burleigh. Retired or semi-retired men are invited to join us at our club meetings on the third Monday of each month at 10am in the Burleigh

Probus Club Of Hastings Point Tweed Coast meets next on Tuesday, July 19, at 10am at the Tri Care Retirement Community, 87/89 Tweed Coast Road, Hastings Point. At this meeting, member Brenda McDonald will be speaking about her family tree. An interesting talk about settling the outback of South Australia and Western Australia and early days on the Dingo Fence, the Birdsville track and Sidney Kidman. New members welcome.

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If you enjoy meeting new friends, going on social outings and dinners, this is the club for you. We also have guest speakers each month. Our meetings are held on the first Tuesday of the month at 9.30am for 10am start at Burleigh Heads Surf Club (Mowbray Park), Burleigh Heads. Visitors are always welcome, bring a friend along and join us for morning tea. For further details, contact Lesley on 5520 2070.

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At a recent dance party staged by the Probus Club of North Gold Coast, the audience participated in fun activities including conga line (to the tune of Running Bear, sung by club president and entertainer Lorraine Moyes) and then took to centre stage to become “puppets” for the Sandi Shaw rendition of the Eurovision song winner of 1969, Puppet on a String.

If you’re interested in joining this fun group of Probarians, contact Lorraine Moyes on 5514 2196.

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A large group of Sorrento Probus Club members recently enjoyed luncheon at the Australian Italian Club on the Gold Coast.

This lively Probus group meets every second Thursday of each month at the Southport Bowls Club.

We have excellent speakers, lunches, coffee mornings and outings.

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The Probus Club of Varsity Lakes is for active people who have retired from work, not life. It is non-political, non-sectarian, non-fundraising and provides regular opportunities to progress healthy minds and wider interests while enjoying the fellowship of new friends. Meetings are at the Robina Community Centre, San Antonio Crt at 9.30am on the third Wednesay of each month.

To inquire or to arrange a visit to one of our meetings, contact Kathy on 0414 714 103.

VISITING: A large group of Sorrento Probus Club members recently enjoyed luncheon at the Australian-Italian Club.

VIEW Club meets on the third Friday of each month at 10.30am for 11am, meeting at the Gainsborough Greens Golf Club, Pimpama. All ladies are invited to make new friends with a welcoming group, enjoy lunch and a guest speaker. Proudly supporting the Smith Family, the OxenfordCoomera VIEW Club is the most northern VIEW club on the Gold Coast. Please RSVP to Vicki on 5501 9455 for lunch bookings and information.

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Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, July 26, at the Currumbin RSL at 10am.

Guest speaker is Gary Hamlin and he will certainly keep us entertained. Trading table includes kitchen utensils, food, aprons – even recipes! Visitors most welcome, please contact Carlene 5590 8247.

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Surfers Paradise VIEW Club supports VIEW Clubs of Australia and its endeavours through the Smith Family by sponsoring nine Learning for Life Students with their school needs. It is vitally important that membership of our club continues to grow so that

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Meetings and lunch on the second Tuesday of each month at the Southport Golf Club, meeting at 11.30am for lunch at noon. There’s always an interesting guest speaker.

New members and visitors are most welcome. Contact Nancy on 5592 6730 or 0421 639 574.

SNAPSHOTS OF LIFE ANN RICKARD ann.rickard@apn.com.au

OF ALL the things that creep up on us as we age – aching feet, creaking knees, deteriorating eyesight, you know them all – I never thought an increase in anxiety over very small matters would be one of them.

But it is so.

I fret now about missing planes, trains, buses and dental appointments.

The last one bothers me not much, admittedly, but it is the awful anxiety over small issues I now experience when I travel.

Where once I would book an airline ticket, throw it in the drawer, never look at it again until I got to the airport check-in counter, now I have to take it out of said drawer and check it half-a-dozen times a day leading up to my

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Twin Towns Evening VIEW Club will hold its next meeting on July 13 at 6.30pm at The Blue Room of Tweed Heads Bowls Club. Visiting members from all clubs are welcome. New members also. Guest speaker will be historian Diane Miller.

There will be a trading table. No books please.

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departure. I fret in the car all the way to the airport that some detail on the ticket will be wrong and I won’t be allowed on the plane.

Then I worry that my passport will somehow mysteriously disappear from the wallet I have secured it in and locked in my bag. (You never know, aliens could come down, filter through the car roof, get into my bag and take it.) (See? Real and stupid anxiety.)

As for catching trains in foreign countries.

Nightmare.

As a middle-aged person I would skip lightly on a train, full of anticipation of an exciting journey looking out the window to happy cows in idyllic countryside; now I almost foam at the mouth with angst that I will be on the wrong train and heading in a direction quite opposite to the one in which I want to go.

I make light of this, but it is very real, and I now know how people who suffer constant anxiety

feel. It’s a terrible and tangible thing and I don’t know what to do about it (apart from giving up travel, not negotiable.)

I blame it all on my husband (why not? he cops it for everything else).

He was refused embarkation on a flight recently because his ticket was in the name of Geoff and his passport was in the name of Geoffrey.

I blame him again for the time he booked us on a flight out of Mykonos to Paris being all clever and doing it himself online in April for our flight in July.

But instead of typing 28.7.15 into the computer, he typed 28.4.15. See? April.

He was making the booking in April instead of July.

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Sports Club, Minjungbal Drive, South Tweed. Day trips are on the second Wednesday of the month which include river cruises, island visits and country days. All welcome.

Phone Jan on 5523 1255.

LIONESS CLUB OF PALM BEACH CURRUMBIN

At the recent Lions Convention at Echuca, Victoria, the Lioness Club of Palm Beach Currumbin won the Fonnie Tresise Premier Project Award for the third time in seven years. This award is named after the wife of Lions Australia founder William Tresise, recognising outstanding humanitarian service.

“Colourful Knee Rug” project produces 600 practical hand-crocheted knee rugs, fostering community ties with local aged care and support services. Lionesses have spent $12,000 of their own money for this project. The Lioness Club of Palm Beach Currumbin meets on the first Wednesday of each month at 1pm at the Lion’s Den in Murtha Drive, Elanora, followed by afternoon tea.

Contact president Joy on 5575 9893.

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SOUTHPORT SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION

We welcome all over-50’s to our activities which include line dancing, new vogue dancing, Scottish, square and tap dancing, tai chi and light exercise.

We celebrate Christmas twice a year and organise a bus trip or two during the year. Our club motto is “Finding Friends Fun & Fitness”. We are a very active and friendly club. At 2 Whitby Street, Southport. Parking is available in Owen Park.

Membership is $8 per year with each activity costing a low $3. Activity times on our website: www.southportsenior citizens.com or phone Annette 5537 1377.

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night at the Spotlight Theatre. Higher & Higher, all-singing, all-dancing celebration of one of the richest periods in musical history, will take you back to the hits you loved with superstars like The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and The Jackson Five Motown influenced stars like Wind, Donna Summer and The Bee Gees. With an explosive live band, on Thursday, August 11, at 7.30pm at 185-187 Ashmore Road, Benowa.

Cost $25 includes supper.

Lots of raffle prizes. Book early. Phone Doreen 0403 810 940 or taurus28@optus net.com.au.

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Come to seniors expos SEE all the health and lifestyle information such as retirement living options, in home care, seniors’ travel, seniors’ insurance, financial planners, investment advice, free hearing and eyesight checks and mobility aids.

Free education and information is available for seniors on Thursday, July 28, at Twin Towns Services Club in the Bay and River rooms level 3, 9am-1pm.

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Some farmers hadn’t seen rain for nearly five years, and had to sell all the stock and some even had to sell their land.

However we all had a wonderful time in Longreach and Winton, met some fair-dinkum Aussies, visited the School of the Air, Stockman’s Hall of Fame, Qantas museum and the Age of Dinosaurs at Winton. We recommend it to any other seniors.

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Church on the corner of Powell and Florence Sts, Tweed Heads, is presenting its annual fashion parade on Saturday, July 30, starting at 1pm. The fashions are

by Portofino’ with sizes and styles to suit every woman. A wonderful afternoon tea will follow the parade with an opportunity to buy the items. $10 entry with a lucky door prize of a $50 voucher to put towards the fashions. For more information, contact the church office on 5536 1060 or Yvonne Turner on 0419 357 634.

COOLANGATTA SENIOR CITIZENS

Our centre is for 50 & over seniors and welcomes all Gold Coast and Tweed Heads residents and visitors. The centre has a large range of activities including bingo, dancing (inc lessons), free computer lessons, card games, choir group, indoor bowls, craft, light exercises, line dancing, mah jong, rock ’n’ roll, Spanish lessons, snooker and eight ball, social table tennis, tai chi, yoga, monthly bus trips, free monthly concerts, hairdresser and beautician and free Wii on

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JOINING IN: Probus Club of North Gold Coast members having some fun on a conga line.

the big screen. Next free concert on Monday, July 25, at 1pm featuring Dixie Jazz Band a multi-talented group of outstanding professional musicians.

Inquiries and concert bookings phone 5536 4050 or visit 2 Gerrard St, Coolangatta.

PALS

New to the Gold Coast or a resident over 50 looking for social activities? Come along and join us for weekly barbecues, picnics, theatre, parties or

outings. Our social club is called PALS (People Alone Lending Support). Meet twice a month (every second and fourth Wednesday evening) at Broadbeach Senior Citizens Hall, T E Peters Drive, Broadbeach. For information contact Sylvia on 5554 5621.

assist in fundraising activities and also, if possible, to help with making trauma teddies.

We also have a monthly social outing. We meet on the fourth Wednesday of each month at 1.30pm.

Our meetings are held at the Robina Community Centre. Phone Margaret, president 0402 427 843.

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Monthly meetings 1pm and as advised. For more information phone Sue on 0405 936 330 or text Aira on 0405 023 611 or email Sam oz.sam@live.com.au.

SENIORS BREAK THE DROUGHT IN LONGREACH

Ladies from the 60’s and Better Club in Elanora travelled on the Spirit of the Outback to Longreach in June. We were welcomed by the locals who thanked us for

We are an embroidery group on the Gold Coast and recently presented an Anzac banner to representatives of the management committee of the Mudgeeraba Light Horse Museum. Peter McLoughlin, president, was dressed in the uniform of a First WW1 Light Horseman and accepted the banner from Betty Young, the club member who designed the banner. The banner features a Flanders poppy against a background of a field of poppies and was created to honour the men and women who served in all theatres of war that CONTINUED ON PAGE 23

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ZINNIAS FROM SPACE! NASA studies benefits of gardening

CRAFT GROUP: Lionesses Noelene Tynan, Maree Graves, Karen Andrews MP, Carole Palesy, Jann Ferian and Joy Mattingley (president).

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Enrolments for classes are held on the last Friday of each month, 10am-noon. Classes from Monday to Friday are in a fully airconditioned room.

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Voluntary euthanasia options are discussed at meetings of Exit International held quarterly on the Gold Coast. Phone Elaine 5580 8215.

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A special function to be held at the museum at 8 Elliott Street, Surfers Paradise (off Bundall Road), on Sunday, July 17, at 10am. A film will be shown and the filmmaker, Jeff Licence, will be talking about the film, ‘4224 - Making Place’.

Jeff is a Gold Coast filmmaker, writer and digital media educator with 25 years’ experience working in the media and education spheres.

The film is an exploration of the southern Gold Coast

Jo Hubner from QCWA South Eastern division with her winning shawl and judge Sue Norton.

village of Tugun, focusing on the history, people and the cultural and social developments happening in the area.

All welcome. Cost $5.

Phone Michael on 0417 760 160.

SOLACE

Solace is an organisation for people grieving the loss of a partner.

We meet every second and fourth Wednesday at 10.30am at Broadbeach Senior Citizens Centre, TE Peters Dr, Broadbeach.

For info phone Betty 5580 7034.

THE behavioural health community has long touted that gardening provides recreation and relaxation.

NASA’s Human Research Program is looking at how caring for plants and flowers will help lessen feelings of isolation, loneliness and stress that can be a part of a long-duration mission in space.

NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren activated the growth of zinnia plants in November last year as part of an experiment in the Vegetable Production System, a facility that will help scientists learn how to grow fresh produce on orbit for the agency’s journey to Mars. NASA is using red, green, and blue LED lights 10 hours a day to stimulate growth of the plants.

The countermeasure to sensory monotony is sensory stimulation.

Working with plants provides astronauts visual, tactile and olfactory stimulation, and eventually even salivary stimulation with fresh foods and variety.

“It was surprising to me how great soybean plants looked,” NASA astronaut

Peggy Whitson wrote while aboard the international Space Station.

“I guess seeing something green for the first time in a month and a half had a real effect. I think it’s interesting that my reaction was as dramatic as it was,” she wrote.

Another space gardener, NASA astronaut Don Pettit, conducted experiments with growing plants in space during Expedition 30/31 “I grew three plants on my last mission,” Pettit said. “Space zucchini, and then he had his buddy space broccoli. And then there was space sunflower.”

To enhance his fun, he even wrote a blog from the point of view of space zucchini.

Experiments involving space plants have been a favourite of astronauts, especially those staying in space for long periods of time.

Several astronauts agree that the ability to watch plants grow, and to play a part in their growth, provides a strong connection to something bigger than their immediate surroundings.

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HER Majesty, Queensland Elizabeth II, has graced the cover of Vanity Fair to mark her 90th birthday.

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70-YEAR-YOUNG model Jan de Villeneuve exudes just as much life, colour and vibrancy as she did when she began modelling in the 1960s.

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GOLD COAST resident 75-year-old Rivella Lewis was both a stall holder and interested audience member at the Gold Coast Seniors Expo.

A talented artist and art teacher, Rivella was happy to share her story with Seniors Newspaper.

She said her talent was recognised when, at 13-years-old, she was offered a job at Disney Studios but her dad, “being a staunch Jewish father,” wouldn’t let her go.

Despite his resistance, she managed to follow her own artistic path, including success as an art teacher.

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She also excelled in another area.

In 1972 Rivella went to a Jewish Toastmasters event as a guest and was asked one of the table topic questions which required her to give a mini speech.

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Riverlla said Toastmasters has brought out her artistic talents in a way she never thought possible.

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dear, no dear person,” she said.

Once women were allowed in 1973, her club told world headquarters and owned up to the fact that she was a female ‘Val’.

By 1975 Rivella become the second ever Australian female area governor.

She served a two-years consecutive term in Sydney’s Area 201 from July 1975 until June 1977.

Following that term in office, she was then elected to the District 70 Executive as the new clubs officer, a special position created for her because she had doubled the amount of clubs in her area while area governor.

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SENIORS EXPO These events provide a great opportunity for you to discover the lastest products and services available.

Positive ageing ethos ALMOST 3000 attendees walked through the doors and into the Gold Coast Seniors Expo in June.

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Gail spoke about the publication’s positive outlook on the present and future, with an emphasis on embracing ageing.

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“We’re lucky to get old and I hope you can say we’re lucky to have a really good paper like the Seniors Newspaper.”

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Low rates for long haul WE NOW live in a global economic environment with zero or negative interest rates in substantial parts of the developed world.

This is a result of events that have unfolded over a 30-year period and, if we look to the past, we might see a repeating theme.

The results of the prolonged period of interest rates trending down has been a series of investment booms and busts, from the Japanese property bubble of the late-1980s through the “Asian Tigers” (and Asian crisis) of the 1990s, the tech bubble (and burst) in the 2000s, followed by the US (and other)

Check if this is the time to review your long-term investments housing booms (and GFC), China’s construction boom (a direct response to the GFC’s impact on its export industries) and the spill-over to resources (which is now fading), to the biotech bubble of the last two years.

In Australia we are currently witnessing an ever-surging number of new apartments being built across our capital cities as part of an overall home-building program, which on a per capita view equals China’s 12.5 million starts.

With high levels of indebtedness after such growth, the system is more sensitive to interest rate increases. There is also significant excess

capacity in all the areas that saw over-investment (eg mining), which reduces the need for further activity. While some think that low rates would encourage consumption, the reality is that low rates are leading people to save more for longer to meet their financial goals.

Inflation has been low for almost three decades.

The key drivers underlying the current low inflation are: the opening up of trade with developing economies that has provided and will continue to provide an enlarged pool of labour; advancements in technology, particularly in terms of its impact on

efficiency across a wide range of industries (think Uber, Airbnb, for example), have had and will continue to have a deflationary effect; and governments have been more disciplined with fiscal spending in recent years.

This kind of low-yield low-inflation environment is not without precedent.

Jonathan Wilmot from Credit Suisse has produced some quality analysis on the two historical periods that most closely resemble the post-GFC era: the global recession in the 1890s and the Great Depression of the 1930s.

The key lesson from these earlier episodes is that interest rates stayed

Try to be debt-free in retirement THINK MONEY PAUL CLITHEROE I’M A big fan of entering retirement with as little debt as possible but surprising numbers of Australians are still carrying large sums of debt even when they’re close to, or in, retirement.

An AMP/NATSEM report from late-2015 found 78.3% of 50 to 65-year-olds still have household debt, while 44.1% of over-65s face a debt burden. And we’re not talking nickel and

dime sums either. The average debt among 50-65s is $68,500 but, at the top end of the scale, one in 10 of these households owes $534,300.

To put these figures in perspective, super industry body ASFA says men currently retire with an average of $292,500 in super, a figure that falls to $138,150 for women.

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Using your super to pay out personal debt – especially big-ticket debt like a home loan, means losing a solid chunk of

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One alternative is to remain in the workforce for longer. Sure, this is a chance to grow your super, and pay down debt.

But there are no guarantees about when you will retire.

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option will leave you better off.

As a general rule though, making a concerted effort to enter retirement debt-free provides plenty of pluses.

If you think about those potential repayments that could be accumulating in your own pocket instead of being funneled off to the bank, you get a better mental picture of the benefits of enjoying a debt-free retirement.

Paul Clitheroe is a founding director of financial planning firm ipac, chairman of the Australian Government Financial Literacy Board and chief commentator for Money Magazine.

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Lugano is an important financial centre but you won’t be concerned with business matters when you are surrounded by green parks, Mediterranean squares, galleries, museums, lakeside

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Such a beautiful destination calls for a special hotel with a Lake Lugano view, and they don’t come any better than the Villa Principe Leopoldo.

Just driving into the hotel’s circular driveway to look up at the stately historic building gives you a sense of importance. The lake and mountain views from this beautiful building are astounding. You will not want to leave to go down to the town even though much awaits you there.

This is a destination hotel, where your room or suite is exquisitely and tastefully furnished and your bathroom is full-marble glamour. Everything about the property speaks of money – lots of it. All spent to achieve the utmost in elegance and style.

The villa was home to Prince Federico Leopoldo until his

death in 1931. It was built at the end of the 19th century for the family’s summer residence and half of Europe’s nobility have been guests. You are in good company there. It was transformed into a hotel in 1986.

Dining is an important component of a Villa Principe Leopoldo visit. In summer the dining is outside beneath a marquee overlooking the vast and enigmatic lake.

The menu and wine list reflect the sophistication, and the chef may present you with many courses including goose liver confit, poached sole in green pea and wasabi broth, and perhaps some local cheese and then a sweet finish of parfait scented with elderflower syrup.

As the sun goes down and the lights on the mountain across the lake begin to glow and shimmer you’ll be a very content person. *The writer was a guest of Tourism Switzerland.

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Relax before your trip Proper indulgence at the airport is now a reality

EAT, DRINK AND BE KERRY KERRY HEANEY START your holiday with a massage before you fly at Brisbane International Airport’s new Plaza Premium Lounge.

Along with honeycomb seating, plenty of electrical outlets and complimentary wi-fi access, Plaza Premium Lounge also has a separate spa facility.

Scheduled for opening in the second half of 2016, the spa’s menu will include seated massage, plus head and shoulder massage.

You’ll need to adjust your pre-departure buffer allowance to allow extra spa massage time!

The individual workstations provide a compact, but comfortable workstation area, and there are comfortable lounge chairs with a big screen view of the airport’s activity.

Just like you’ll find at

PLAZA PREMIUM LOUNGE Location: International Terminal – Departures (Level 4), Brisbane Airport Opening Hours 5am – 11pm daily Contact Information: australia@ plaza-network.com airport lounges operated by major airlines, there’s buffet dining where you can eat your weight in food. If you are looking for a comfortable place to hang out between or before flights, have breakfast, lunch or dinner, catch up with the latest newspapers or on television or recharge your phone, this lounge has got something for you.

I can imagine arriving early for my next international departure and slipping in for a massage and a meal before I jet off. Sounds like a nice way to start a holiday.

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ADELAIDE ... it has been so long. It will be good to see you again, see how you’ve changed.

After all, it’s been almost 40 years. A lot can happen in that time.

Thoughts of the gracious city play with me as the plane descends.

While I have been to the City of Light three or four times before this is the first by air. Direct from Brisbane.

The first was a surfing trip. Then there was a basketball club end-of-season trip by bus.

There was a brief stop-over at Pt Adelaide while on a ship voyage to the UK and years later the city was a stepping-off point before crossing the Nullarbor on a road trip to Western Australia.

The aging grandeur of the Grand Hotel at Glenelg Pier, the Torrens River and the sedate Adelaide Oval with the Victor Richardson Gates, a tribute to an all-round sportsman. And

Blackberry and white chocolate domes.

of course there was the wine-growing areas of the Barossa and the Clare Valley.

Indelible memories of a well laid-out city nestled between a long, low mountain range and the gentle waters of St Vincent’s Gulf. A place of churches and wide open spaces, of bluestone cottages and gracious mansions, of beer glasses they called butchers and pie-floaters served from a caravan at night in the city square.

The trip along Sir Donald Bradman Drive from the airport into the city is now a beautiful tree-lined roadway whereas my recollections of it is so different.

That road was ugly, lined with the iconic and hideously deathly “stobie pole”. Reinforced concrete is sandwiched between steel beams, then solidly embedded in a foundation alongside the kerb which edges busy roads.

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Adelaide

Adelaide has matured in those intervening years.

She’s more attractive, interesting, displays many facets and is worldly.

An eclectic mix of traditional and contemporary life, the conservative and the quirky.

The housing looks similar to then although when you peek past the old facades many surprises await.

There is nothing quite like an early morning walk around the streets to discover what a place is really like.

The houses of bluestone and brick, one-way streets that reverse in the morning and evening to deal with the traffic.

Faded signs painted on building walls advertising everything and anything from shoe polish to brewer’s yeast. Around the corner is a pop art mural of a futuristic look.

You meet people out walking their dogs, see delivery vans squeezing along alley ways. Then you stumble across the Adelaide Central Markets, opening for the day’s

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The markets have a real mix of cultures and are open every day except Sunday and Monday. It’s arguably the best in Australia for not just fruit and veg but bread and pastries, cakes and cheeses, fish, meat and poultry, smallgoods, nuts and chocolate.

There are cafes and stalls for breakfast, brunch or lunch, cooking demonstrations and live music events.

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Enjoy a slow wander taking in the sights and sounds as you watch the market come to life.

The key to Adelaide being such a walkable city is that the central block is set out on a grid system that is one mile (1.6km) square with parklands all around it.

Victoria Square is at its heart and there are four quadrant squares. The lay-out is fed by four principal roads that are two-chain wide – that’s equivalent to two cricket

pitches or wide enough to turn a bullock team.

Adelaide is where you have everything from evening wine tastings and tapas at bars and cafes off malls and places to fine restaurants, pizza parlours, pubs and nightclubs.

This visit brings so many memories flooding back, while laying down new one. .

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Zeil’s the real deal The world-class shopping in Germany is just too tempting Ann Rickard

SOME travel writers like to do extensive research before they embark on a trip.

They like to know as many details as possible about their destination before they go. Others would rather take the capricious “let-me-seewhen-I-get- there’’ approach. I fall in between. I like to know a little about where I am going, but too much.

So it was that I found myself enchanted to stumble across Germany’s premier shopping street in Frankfurt.

The Zeil just happened to be around the corner from my hotel (I was beautifully ignorant of this) and when I casually asked the concierge if there was any decent shopping nearby, he just pointed me around the corner. He didn’t make mention of the Zeil being a wide and lovely pedestrianised street with graceful sycamore trees

and wondrous shops.

See? Nice surprises await the unenlightened traveller. When you stumble on something great, you feel proprietorial towards it.

The Zeil was my discovery.

“You have just been through a cold winter and left the house in your normal gear without realising it was going to turn out a warm spring day,” I thought to myself as I passed all the luxury shops, itching to go into Louis Vuitton but refraining for fear of upsetting myself by looking at all those gorgeous products I couldn’t afford.

As is the case in most European countries, the shops were overheated, so all those people were entering the large department stores and pulling off hats, removing scarves and turning rosy with the heat.

There is no Sunday shopping in Germany and this vibrant street that had been packed with happy

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shoppers and drinkers and sausage-eaters the day before, was deserted, desolate, as empty as a ghost town.

I had dragged my husband there telling him what a flamboyant street it was only to find not a soul out with all the doors firmly closed. So, Saturday is your go in Frankfurt.

Saturday shopping in Frankfurt is very festive.

P&O sails into PNG P&O Cruises’ Pacific Jewel made history this month, becoming the first cruise ship to call at one of the most remote island groups in the world – the Conflict Islands in Papua New Guinea.

The uninhabited islands became P&O’s latest cruise destination – and eighth port in Papua New Guinea – when the 2000-guest ship anchored off Panasesa Island last Tuesday.

A picturesque group of 21 islands surrounding a bright blue lagoon, the Conflict Islands are home to one of the world’s most biodiverse reef systems.

During their visit, guests made the most of the island paradise taking part in kayaking, snorkelling and stand-up paddleboarding as well as glass bottom boat and outrigger canoe tours.

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CHAD Morgan is the last of the country music legends. He has out-sung, out-drunk and outlived his famous contemporaries.

When Slim Dusty died in 2003, the heavy title of country music’s “national treasure” was passed on to Chad.

Chad hasn’t had a drink or a smoke for over 30 years and now past 80-years old, is still one of the funniest men on the planet.

A one-of-kind entertainer who can captivate an audience

with a story, a joke or just a facial expression and some of the most original, funny songs ever performed.

A living legend of Australia’s entertainment industry and a true gentleman of country music, Chad is a country music pioneer who has played all over Australia, with fans from grandparents to grandchildren.

This is the first time in 20 years he has brought his full show to the Gold Coast and has teamed up with husband and wife team Glennys and Ian Muir.

Originally from the Goulburn Valley in Victoria, The Muirs are now based on the Gold Coast and have been writing songs and performing together for a number of years.

The Muirs came to the attention of the legendary Chad Morgan at one of his shows, and have since been touring the country as his support act, performing at all the major festivals.

Matinee performance on Saturday, July 23.

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Tribute to the one and only Patsy ALWAYS … Patsy Cline is more than a tribute to the legendary country singer who died tragically at age 30 in a plane crash in 1963.

The show is based on a true story about Cline’s friendship with a fan from Houston named Louise Seger, who befriended the star in a Texas honky-tonk in 1961, and continued a correspondence with Cline until her death.

The musical play, complete with down-home country humour and true emotion, includes 27 of Patsy’s unforgettable hits such as Crazy, I Fall to Pieces, Sweet Dreams and Walking After

SWEET DREAMS: A fabulous musical tribute to Patsy Cline at the Redland Arts Centre.

Midnight. The show’s title was inspired by Cline’s letters to Seger, which were consistently signed ‘Love ALWAYS… Patsy Cline’.

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ON STAGE: Divine Miss Bette is coming to the Redland Performing Arts Centre.

talented performers, Broadway to Pavarotti is more than a recital of old favourites. The show has a plot linking the songs

and revealing the stories behind them. Add to that, the light-hearted farce of the two tenors competing for the attention of the

The Divine Miss Bette is heading to Queensland’s most vibrant, vital and vivacious town … and she’s also heading to Cleveland!

Following several sell-out seasons both in Australia and overseas (aka Tassie), Catherine Alcorn channels the people’s diva, Bette Midler, in this whirlwind of a show that will leave you breathless and begging for more!

Trained by Steve Ostrow, the man who discovered Bette Midler, Catherine Alcorn will take you on a thrilling roller-coaster ride back to the Palace Theatre, New York, 1973.

Backed by a four-piece band, she’ll belt out the diva’s great hits, including Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, The Rose, Friends and more.

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And have no fear she knows what to do if you can’t take a joke!

The Divine Miss Bette is produced by Neil Gooding Productions and Catherine Alcorn, and is presented by the Redland Performing Arts Centre.

It will be a bawdy night of fun and diva action at Redland Performing Arts Centre on Friday, August 12, 7pm.

Tickets are $30-$35 and can be booked by calling the RPAC Box Office on 3829 8131 or visiting www.rpac.com.au (booking fees are $4 per transaction by phone and $3 per ticket online).

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beautiful soprano and you have plenty of laughs and musical excellence. A highlight of the night will be the famous tribute to

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The show will be at the Runaway Bay Community Centre Monday August 15

Are you aware of the gems we have at Helensvale and on the Gold Coast? The audience was swept away by the magic of a cappella in three concerts staged by two local choirs at Helensvale’s Cultural Centre Auditorium in June.

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Artists will vie for a range of awards valued at more than $32,000.

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Since first rippling across Currumbin Beach in 2003, SWELL has grown into an internationally acclaimed cultural attraction that continues to fascinate,

BEACH ART: Artist John Wilson’s sculpture Seaball for SWELL.

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