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Finding a happy place Gail Forrer Seniors Group Editor A LOOK up into the Sunshine Coast’s gorgeous blue autumn skies is a beautiful reminder that nature beats on at its own rhythm regardless of how out of sync we may feel our lives have become.

To see this wonderful sky brings on a feeling that in Danish might be referred to as “Hygge” (pronounced hoo-ga).

In 2016, Meik Wiking wrote The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living (The Happiness Institute Series).

Now, I do like Scandi interiors, fashion and crime movies, and I know the Danish lifestyle came in at No. 1 on The Happiest People in the World Index – so I thought in these troubled times, this philosophy might give us a sense of comfort and wellbeing – a Hygge experience.

Wiking says Hygge is all about gratitude and savouring the simple

pleasures in life. I hope our stories give you that.

For instance, our cover personality, Patsy Fayne, displayed such a joyous and daring spirit in her chosen sport – you have to love that. Our libraries have responded to lockdown with fabulous online initiatives, as have local and national museums and galleries.

These days there’s extra time to dream and plan, so we have included a double-page Australian road trip feature on the Travel pages for future reference.

Wiking attributed the Danes’ happiness to their ability to decouple wealth and wellbeing.

“We focus on the small things that really matter,” he said.

During this period, I hope Seniors News assists you to do just that.

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WHAT A CATCH: Ex-cricketer Patsy Fayne broke gender barriers in the 1970s when she represented Australia in England. She’s now passing on her skills to Noosa players.

WITH the summer of cricket over, the women’s team at Noosa have kicked up their heels to celebrate their friendship with mentor Patsy Fayne.

The Tewantin Noosa Cricket Club team has just played its second year of the eight-team Coast competition with Patsy’s strong support.

She gently led the lively group out of the first-year blues and through a second season, with plans for the next campaign already on the table.

At first glance, the 72year-old may have seemed an unlikely mentor for this fledgling, youthful team – until Patsy’s cricketing heritage was revealed.

Patsy was a member of the first Australian women’s team to compete at Lord’s.

This was the first time women had competed at the famed venue. And bowler Patsy was also the first to take an Australian women’s wicket at Lord’s.

Sadly, that year England trounced Australia.

Patsy started playing backyard cricket as a child.

Her older brother – who was bigger and stronger than her – owned the bat but he needed a bowler.

“He took his little sister (Patsy) and bashed her up,” Patsy reminisces. “I used to practise at One Tree or one stump just to get my brother out. I didn’t plan to play for Australia.”

Once at university, Patsy rediscovered her love for cricket, playing for her tertiary institution, then for NSW and then Australia.

But by 1976 Patsy decided to give up cricket.

She was broke. Everything she did had to be paid out of

her own pocket. Then in 2018 a news piece in the local paper caught Patsy’s eye and she showed the story to her proud husband, Michael.

“I hadn’t been around cricket for 40 years, but then I thought maybe I can just go visit them and see if I can help, just while they get started,” Patsy said.

“A week or two. Teach them to run between wickets. Just the basics of the game.”

When Patsy walked into the come-and-try day for the newly formed Tewantin Noosa Cricket Club women’s team, no one there had any idea who this sprightly older woman was and why she had turned up.

“I told them I had played a bit of cricket and I was happy to help out as I lived in the area,” the understated Patsy said.

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by history-making mentor ‘‘ The impact Patsy has had from the getgo has been incredible.

PITCHING IN: Patsy with Noosa team members Kirsty Patten, Trina Feuerherdt and captain Paula McKie. The side has been inspired by Patsy’s expert input.

meetings and helped iron out some of the intricacies of a women’s cricket team.

“Her contribution has been huge,” Paula said.

Fellow team member Trina Feuerherdt said: “The

impact Patsy has had from the get-go has been incredible.

“What she has brought with her to the girls has been empowering. To think this woman played for Australia

and she wants to come and help us. For me, that was huge.”

Both Paula and Trina acknowledged the team probably wouldn’t have made it through to the

second season without Patsy’s unwavering belief in their abilities and her willingness to share both her cricket knowledge and life experiences.

“We want to make her proud of us,” Paula said.

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out on the first day mentioned her aunt was Miriam Knee, the captain of the Australian women’s team that competed at Lord’s in 1976. Patsy piped up: “She was my captain.’’

The team’s co-founder and now captain Paula McKie said when she found out about Patsy’s history, “it was like a celebrity coming in”.

Patsy has consciously stayed in the background as much as possible, allowing the women to manage the team’s development.

Paula said Patsy had attended the training and

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Support pours in for meals Tracey Johnstone IN THE past four weeks, more than 2200 meals have been delivered to some of the community’s most vulnerable through Suncare Community Services’ Meals on Wheels program, thanks to generous donations from the Sunshine Coast community.

Based on the current COVID-19 social restrictions, the Suncare Community Services kitchen has adapted from producing and delivering hot meals every day, to providing a variety of frozen-meal options that are all still prepared and cooked in the Maroochydore

kitchen. Suncare chief executive Russell Mason said staff had worked hard to produce beautiful homecooked meals for those who need them most.

“This is a really challenging and frightening time for those who are isolated from their family and friends, and our service not only provides wholesome meals to those in need, but helps keep people connected and reminds them that they aren’t forgotten,” Mr Mason said.

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“The community has been very supportive at a challenging time for everyone, which has made it possible for us to continue this essential service for our clients.

“When the Maroochydore RSL had to close its doors, they gifted a range of fresh and semi-prepared food, which not only reduced our

financial cost but assisted us in reducing preparation time as many of the vegetables were ready to use.

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Adding to success story Tracey Johnstone MATHEMATICS innovator and former lecturer Dr Calvin Irons says everywhere we turn, across the ages, maths is in our lives.

Just look at the discussion around the coronavirus.

“I can see tons of mathematics that they are using to describe it all,” Dr Irons said.

Dr Irons’ passion is in developing tools for teachers, parents and even grandparents to educate the very young to enjoy the complexity of maths in a simplified, enjoyable way.

At age 70 and with an inquisitive mind still working at full speed, he walked out the door of the Queensland University of Technology and into his maths education business, Origo.

“I finished on a Friday and on Saturday I was on a plane to work in the Origo office in the US,” Dr Irons said.

The international business, which he started with one of his former students, is in its 25th year.

It focuses on providing, through teachers, down-toearth maths education for primary school students.

“The material has much more visual representations,” he said.

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your brain if you are juggling mathematical symbols. You have to have objects that you can relate to those mathematical symbols.”

His wife Rosemary, 74, has worked in the Origo team since the company’s inception. The former primary school teacher went on to study mathematics at

Indiana University.

While Rosemary no longer has a hands-on role, Dr Irons said he still enjoyed brainstorming ideas with her.

Now 76, Dr Irons is rising to the new challenge of driving the evolution of the company, looking at ways to respond to forced home

schooling for many parents and the changes he sees in employment opportunities in the next 20 years.

“I am working on computational thinking, which is what I think students need to be well prepared on so they can go into the digital age in terms of the thinking required to

write algorithms for any kind of programming,” he said.

“Past mathematics (teaching) has been all very procedural. This (new project) has to be lateral thinking; think outside the box, think off to the side, don’t get stuck in a rut with your thinking.’’

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down his current project, he needs to complete developing for Origo one-aday maths activities that parents can use with their children at home.

He suggests one of the best mathematical games for children, and for grandparents to exercise their brain, is dominoes.

Australian Museum opens ‘virtual doors’ THROUGH the new portal Australian Museum Inside Out, the nation’s first museum, the Australian Museum (AM), has opened its “virtual doors’’.

To ensure science and culture remain accessible, it is curating virtual tours, online exhibitions, school resources, podcasts from scientists and other experts and even more for curious visitors at australianmuseum .net.au/insideout.

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“We’re thrilled to be able to share our content,

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Curated to stimulate curiosity in all visitors, the portal is supported with detailed information and fact sheets to complement teachers and parents

wanting to utilise more resources, becoming a onestop website for learning requirements.

Teachers, and homeschooling and supervising parents, will be able to engage with a variety of 3D images of priceless collections; witness bird’seye footage of daring expeditions; experience the latest in scientific research and view online exhibitions, events and podcasts.

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Courage in Dutch migrant honoured for family’s heroics in Tracey Johnstone THIS is Gerry Zwart’s story.

His parents received a prestigious award, but it really belongs to the whole family who willingly harboured Jewish children and dozens of resistance fighters.

It’s been a long time since World War II, but the defining moments of Gerry’s youth remain crystal clear.

The youngest of 12 children, Gerry was just 11 when the war started for the Netherlands, and his family’s world turned on its end.

As the 90-year-old sits in his cosy loungeroom at a retirement village in Nambour accompanied by his doting wife, Valerie, Gerry shares a haunting picture of how the war impacted on all the family, who became accidental heroes by turning their home into a “safe house’’ for

BRAVERY HONOURED: Gerry Zwart (OAM), 90, with the medal he accepted from Israel, on his parents’ behalf, after a woman his family saved tracked him down 75 years later.

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As the weather cooled, many of the Zwart family of 12 were relaxing inside their small house in the Dutch village of Blaricum, listening to the radio.

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The people were taken to a concentration camp. Of the three, only one made it back.

“I remember the first day of the war: it was May 10, 1940,” Gerry said. “All of a sudden we heard on the radio that the Germans had invaded.”

Nobody expected this news. Before then the Germans had come as far as France. But on that fatal May date the German army invaded Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

Gerry said the family’s first response was to head to a neighbour’s cellar. Only a week later the Dutch army capitulated and the German occupation forces arrived in town taking over public buildings and schools.

Initially life didn’t change too much, Gerry said. The children went about their normal activities. But when the general army was joined by the SS, that’s when things did change.

Gerry, who was the

youngest of the Zwart children, learnt very quickly to keep quiet when confronted by the Nazis.

“When the SS came, you had to make sure you didn’t say the wrong thing,” he said.

He watched as the SS rounded up any local men and women aged from 16 to 45 to move them by train to Germany to work in the factories. His artist father missed the cut; he was too old. His mother was also left alone.

Gerry remembers the Jews within the Blaricum community were hardly noticeable until early 1941, when the word came through that the Germans had started rounding them up in Amsterdam.

With that news, Gerry’s sisters came home from school and asked his parents if two of their Jewish friends, both named Bela, could hide in the house, which was already home to eight of the Zwart family. His parents readily agreed.

In the next village his much older brother Hank had also taken in a whole Jewish family.

Soon after, “as things got tougher”, Gerry said his brothers built several hiding places in the Zwart house, in the roof, under the floor and behind false walls.

They also started keeping the doors to outside locked at all times. His mother, Maria, also told everyone to use a particular knock when they came to the front door.

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The family was arrested.

Gerry remembers the young soldiers walking away from the house laughing.

“Next thing you know, they threw a hand grenade on the thatched roof and the house burnt down completely,” Gerry said.

“The people were taken away to a concentration camp. Of the three, only one made it back.”

The Blaricum villagers stayed strong and together, and silent about what the Zwarts were doing.

Gerry’s sisters brought their schoolwork home so the two Belas could keep up their study. The teachers were not told, nor did they share their suspicions.

Early morning was when the village was cut off and raids occurred. The villagers quickly passed the news to the Zwarts, who hid the two Belas.

About six months before the war ended, while Gerry was visiting one of his brothers, there was a raid.

His brother hid in the ceiling but sent Gerry to see what was happening.

Out on the street a German soldier called him over.

“I said, ‘I’m not 16 yet, I’m only 15’. He said, ‘You look old enough’,” Gerry said. He was sent down the road, past other soldiers, to the assembly place with 30 other boys. They were

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marched off to the next village, where the boys were locked in the schoolyard.

“It came to dinnertime and half the Germans went off for a dinner break. It was winter and dark. We knew the area very well.

“I said to my mate, ‘When we get the chance we can leap over the fence and go into the apple orchard’.

“When half the staff were gone, we jumped the fence and ran. I never ran so fast in my life.

“The Germans were yelling for us to come back and then they started shooting. You could hear the bullets hitting the trees around you.”

Gerry figured the Germans didn’t know where he lived so he headed for home. If Gerry hadn’t escaped, he knew he would have ended up working in a Germany factory.

Between the raids, village life continued almost normally. There was no electricity, gas or fuel for stoves, so improvisation was a must. Food, when available, was rationed.

“There was one stage where you couldn’t buy food,” Gerry said.

“You walked around with a pocket full of money, but it wasn’t worth a cracker.”

Valuables became currency for food.

When the war ended in 1945, the two Belas finally emerged as the 16-year-old Gerry joined the villagers dancing in the streets.

By his early 20s, Gerry said he had “had enough of Europe” and wanted to get

out. He headed to Australia, following one of his brothers, met his wife and settled into a rural working life.

It was only recently that one of the girls, Bela van Praag, who now lives in Israel, decided the Zwart family should be honoured.

After an extensive search through Holland, she and her son Lex turned to Facebook to track down Gerry in Australia. It was the secretary of the Horticultural Media Association of Queensland, of which Gerry and Valerie are life members, who saw the post and then helped Bela to make contact with Gerry.

“One day the telephone rang,” Valerie said. When she cautiously answered, the male voice at the other said, “Please don’t hang up. This is Israel calling.‘’ Lex went on to explain his story and how the then 92year-old Bela had nagged him to find the Zwart family.

Seventy-eight years later, Gerry last year accepted Israel’s posthumous gift of the Righteous Among The Nations award on behalf of his parents, Marinus and Maria Josepha Zwart.

It is Israel’s highest honour, which pays tribute to non-Jews who risked their lives to help Jewish people during the Holocaust when six million lives were lost.

Gerry acknowledges it is an award for his whole family, who in their various ways were all champions of protecting and saving many lives.

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Artist airs tribute to RFS Gallipoli prize winner’s work dedicated to ‘Anzac-like’ spirit ALISON Mackay, of St George’s Basin on the NSW South Coast, has won the 2020 Gallipoli Art Prize, ($20,000 acquisitive prize funded by the Gallipoli Memorial Club) with her powerful work Breathe depicting nine different gas masks, mostly from World War I. As a NSW South Coast resident, Alison began thinking about breathing masks and respirators over the summer, when the bushfires were at their worst.

“We spent New Year’s Eve dressed in masks and goggles to protect our eyes and lungs from smoke as we stayed to defend our home from potential ember attack,’’ she said.

“It was a scary time for

everyone, but particularly it reminded me what an extraordinary job the RFS were doing day after day to keep us all safe.

“We owe them a great debt of thanks for their bravery. Their courage and comradeship reminded me of the Anzac spirit.”

Gallipoli Memorial Club president John Robertson, one of the judges of the prize, said: “With the world now battling coronavirus, the painting has a certain prescience, although it was painted before the first case of COVID-19 was diagnosed in Australia. The title is perhaps a timely reminder that, in these difficult days, we all need to take a moment to breathe.’’

Alison has been a finalist in this major national prize for the past seven years with a range of works reflecting the Gallipoli club’s creed of

SYMBOL OF SUFFERING: 2020 Gallipoli Art Prize winner Alison Mackay with her winning work, Breathe.

“loyalty, courage, respect, comradeship and love of country’’.

“I’ve explored different and often quite personal themes for this prize over

the last seven years,’’ she said. “There’s always a diverse and interesting range of paintings in the exhibition, so I’m really thrilled to have won this year.”

Alison’s work has focused mainly on still-life painting using oils over the past 15 years. She has exhibited throughout Australia, including seven solo shows, and her work is held in private and public collections including the Bundanon Collection and National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (as part of the Animalia print collection).

She has been selected as a finalist in numerous art prizes, including the Archibald, the Portia Geach

Finalist Betina Fauvel-Ogden’s poignant work is titled In Memory of My Grandfather

Memorial Award for female portraiture, the National Still Life Award and NSW Parliament’s Plein Air Painting Prize. Alison works mainly from her studio at

Jervis Bay, where she paints directly from life; however, she also spends time working “en plein air’’ in the landscape around her home and further afield.

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UPBEAT VISION: NSW Senior Australian of the Year Sue Lennox and other award winners have filmed messages of hope and practical advice from home during lockdown.

Winners spread positive vibe or by family members they are isolating with, provide quick tips on staying healthy and happy, relieving stress and generally staying positive.

• 2020 NSW Senior Australian of the Year Sue

Lennox speaks from her macadamia orchard, where she says she is staying active and trying to get some sun each day.

Sue shares how her OzGREEN organisation has moved online at this time with the Pulse of the

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As Sue says, “the future is a place we are creating’’, and she hopes it will be a place in which we are “living in harmony”. See https:// www.facebook.com/ AustralianoftheYear/ videos/934042603681311/.

• 2020 Queensland Senior Australian of the Year, Professor Peter Dornan (AM), a sports physician and men’s health specialist, shares practical advice on the importance of keeping active. Prof Dornan advises stretching each day, perhaps with yoga or pilates, plus some simple cardio activity and daily use of light weights to keep muscles in good condition. See https:// www.facebook.com/ AustralianoftheYear/ videos/214907263259963/.

• 2020 Australian of the Year, blindness prevention pioneer Dr James Muecke (AM), talks about how to handle anxiety and why it’s important to avoid a sugar hit in favour of a walk, listening to your favourite music, watching a comedy

for a good laugh or doing a good deed.

As Dr Muecke points out, these positive and healthy alternatives are all equally as effective as sugar in activating the reward part of the brain. See https:// www.facebook.com/ AustralianoftheYear/videos/ 1246206415587198/.

• 2020 Australia’s Local Hero Bernie Shakeshaft, founder of the BackTrack Youth Works program, speaks from his country NSW property. Bernie’s message of resilience and kindness is particularly relevant for rural communities that have faced drought, bushfire, floods and now a pandemic in just a few months.

His heartfelt advice is to be kind and generous, to look after people and “make sure nobody gets left behind’’. See https:// www.facebook .com/ AustralianoftheYear/ videos/546057273010595/.

National Australia Day Council CEO Karlie Brand said the videos from the award recipients were being featured on the @Australian

oftheYear Facebook page so people could benefit from and enjoy the experience and insightful thoughts of awards alumni.

“Our award recipients have been keen to help at this time and their video messages are a great way to connect with the community,” Ms Brand said.

“There are so many amazing people in our awards alumni network and they offer a wide range of backgrounds, expertise and life experience to share or give us reason to smile.”

You can help find the 2021 Australian of the Year, Senior Australian of the Year, Young Australian of the Year and Australia’s Local Hero by nominating someone you admire at australianoftheyear.org.au

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WITH the coronavirus preventing clubs from meeting, we welcome any submission that promotes your club’s aims, history and achievements. Member profiles and photos are also most welcome. Please email your submissions to editor@seniorsnewspaper.com.au.

SUNSHINE COAST COMPUTER CLUB INC DUE to coronavirus (COVID19), all meetings of the Sunshine Coast Computer Club have been cancelled until further notice. For more, phone the club information line on 07 5492 1005, go to sccc.org.au or email sccc@internode.on.net.

DEFEND YOURSELF AGAINST THE FLU SUNSHINE Coast residents are being urged to book their influenza vaccination.

Dr Keat Choong, Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service (SCHHS) Clinical Director of Infectious Disease, said scheduling an influenza vaccination this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic was critical.

“The flu vaccine won’t combat COVID-19, but it will help to reduce the severity and spread of influenza,’’ he said. “It is also important as the COVID-19 pandemic evolves that we avoid as many people as possible presenting to our GPs and hospitals with seasonal flu.

We need to ensure we have as much capacity as possible to look after those who need to be isolated and supported if they have a serious case of COVID-19.

“While it’s not possible to predict the severity of the 2020 flu season, it’s important to be prepared.

Vaccination is one of the best ways to protect yourself from influenza.”

Vaccination is free from GPs for anyone at higher risk of severe outcomes,

BE PREPARED: Vaccination is one of the best ways to protect yourself from influenza and it’s free from your GP if you are 65 or older.

including people aged 65 and older, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people with certain chronic illnesses, including diabetes and chronic respiratory and cardiac conditions. Dr Choong said SCHHS was well prepared to keep our community safe throughout the influenza season and COVID-19

pandemic. “I also urge the public to play their part. Be mindful of the simple measures we can all take to protect ourselves, our families and our communities, like hand hygiene, cough etiquette and an influenza vaccine.’’

To find up-to-date, reliable information on the Queensland Health website,

go to health.qld.gov.au/ coronavirus.

ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT RETIREES AIR Noosa Branch is the peak national not-for-profit organisation supporting selffunded retirees. We regret to advise that our face-toface meetings have been

cancelled until further notice. We will continue to inform our members via our branch and national newsletters and updates.

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USC students to connect with seniors ISOLATED older people facing visitor restrictions during the global pandemic are being invited to book a weekly chat with friendly USC Counselling students.

The USC Counselling and Wellbeing Clinic has partnered with aged care health and wellbeing provider ComLink to offer the Tele-Friends program, a weekly phone or video connection for clients seeking support and companionship.

ComLink is now offering tele-health services at comlink.org.au and 07 5390 1200 (Sunshine

Coast) and 07 3487 0780 (North Brisbane).

Master of Counselling program coordinator Dr Mark Pearson said the finalyear students had received evidence-based training on how to help boost resilience and would be closely supervised by qualified clinical counsellors during the calls.

“Our students know how to converse in a way that lifts spirits and enhances wellbeing at a time when people are feeling particularly isolated or lonely,” Dr Pearson said.

“The plan is that they will

develop an ongoing relationship with an older person and arrange a certain time each week for the call.”

“These students know the importance of really hearing what someone is saying and letting them share their worries, but then also when to turn the conversation to positive memories and to remembering times when clients have coped well in the past, and how they can do so again.”

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how they had found the resilience to cope.

“Students will be helping clients to review and reconnect with their strengths to retell and relive positive experiences connected with positive emotions,” he said.

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Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills.

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Hit the road to help ravaged towns rebuild Vicki Fletcher AFTER the fires, floods and storms at the start of the year, Tourism Australia’s campaign to Holiday Here This Year had us all filling our calendars with good oldfashioned Aussie road trips.

Now all those plans are on hold, we’ve unfolded the map and are instead busy marking tiny towns with the best bakeries and lookouts from which to watch the sunrise, and calculating the most scenic route from A to B. We’ve enlisted the help of our Flight Centre Australia travel experts, seeking tips about which areas affected by the fires and floods to visit... when we’re all free to travel again, of course.

Remember to keep an eye on national initiatives like Roadtrip For Good, which has pulled together a host of places to eat, drink and visit in fire-affected areas.

For now, stay home and stay safe. We’ll be travelling again soon.

NSW SOUTH COAST All the regions that were hit by fires rely on the tourist trade and the South Coast of NSW is no different.

It is flanked by the Great Dividing Range on one side and ocean on the other.

The fires burned through a lot of bushland, including national parks and state forests, cutting many communities off for days.

Now the roads are open again, there are many hidden towns and coves to explore on a trip south through the Shoalhaven and Eurobodalla area.

Ulladulla local and Flight Centre Ulladulla team leader Janice O’Neill is passionate about getting people back into the area.

From Sydney

Just over three hours’ drive south, the hilltop town of Milton is a charming introduction to the picturesque region. Janice suggests stopping at Pilgrims, a delicious vegetarian cafe, and wholefoods store, or the Milton Farm Shop for local produce and specialties.

There are also some great boutiques to check out, including Spaces 2538 and AKWA Surf.

In Ulladulla, Janice suggests dining at Native Cafe overlooking the harbour, Rapt Bratz to pick up cool kidswear, Sol Sisters Artisan Collective for clothes, homewares and jewellery, plus Dwell 35 South and Coyote Boutique.

Don’t miss Cupitt’s Estate, a winery-cum-brewery-cumfromagerie on the edge of town, which Janice recommends for a long lunch.

In Burrill Lake, you can’t go past The Fish Shop for fish and chips, and Holiday Haven at Burrill Lake hosts live music by the lake each Saturday during summer.

BATEMANS BAY TO EDEN Once you hit Batemans Bay you’re in the real heart of the South Coast. Nicole suggests stopping in for a spot of shopping at local boutiques Forever Fashion, Brooke’s Place, Sirens, Journey Style and Homewares, and many more.

The Princes Highway south from Batemans Bay all the way to Eden winds through many quaint towns, making up a huge stretch of coastline that’s been affected by the fires.

Worthwhile stops along this route include: Mogo, a tiny town with a main street lined with boutique stores and cafes, plus the award-winning

Mogo Zoo, which supports a range of endangered animal species.

Bega, famous for its cheese brand, is another regional hub worth stopping at for the Bega Cheese Heritage Centre and the Bega Valley Regional Gallery, home to one of Australia’s richest portraiture awards.

BLUE MOUNTAINS, NSW From Sydney, head northwest through Richmond to the Bells Line of Road, which will take you on a loop of the Blue Mountains.

While it’s possible to do some of these spots in a day, a long weekend will really allow you to make the most of the mountains’ beautiful towns and grand valleys.

The first half of the journey takes you along one ridgeline through Bilpin, Mount Wilson and along to Lithgow. From Lithgow you loop back east along a more southern ridgeline.

You can also take the train from Sydney all the way to Mount Victoria. Buses are currently replacing trains between Mount Victoria, Lithgow and Bathurst due to fire damage on the tracks.

Where to stop: Bilpin to Lithgow Bilpin is known for its orchards, and while there won’t be as much fruit to pick this year given the damage to trees, you can still feast on a famous apple pie from the Bilpin Fruit Bowl, drink cider from Hillbilly Cider or Bilpin Cider Co, and buy local products like apple cider vinegar at Wirraninna Ridge.

Just past Bilpin you’ll find Blue Mountains Glow Worm Tours at Berambang.

In Lithgow, dive into the region’s history at Esbank House and Museum and the Lithgow State Mine

Museum.

For a dose of nature, head to Hassans Walls Lookout, the highest in the Blue Mountains, easily accessible just a few minutes’ drive from Lithgow.

Where to stop: Lithgow to Leura The first stop is Mount Victoria, a historical centre in the mountains, with the historical society museum.

In Blackheath, book in for a meal at the one-hatted Fumo, serving up modern Japanese.

In Katoomba, you can’t miss the iconic Three Sisters, or a day at Scenic World exploring the beautiful bushland via the Scenic Railway, Skyway or Walkway.

For bushwalking, head to Wentworth Falls, which escaped the blazes and where so many trails remain open.

Always check local council and national park websites for the latest closures.

GIPPSLAND, VICTORIA The vast Gippsland region, east of Melbourne, is a rich farming area home to dairies, wineries and hundreds of small producers – the kind of businesses that rely heavily on tourist traffic and local visitors.

On a road trip from Melbourne you can head north to the Alpine High

Grand Ridge Rd, Gippsland, Victoria.

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Country and Snowy River Country regions, or east to the Gippsland Lakes Region and the Coastal Wilderness Region.

Things to do in Northern Victoria: Visit King Valley at Whitfield, home to a range of wineries and breweries such as La Cantina Winery, King River Brewery, Dal Zotto Wines and more.

Stop off to pick up goods from local producers around Milawa, such as the Milawa Cheese Factory and Milawa Mustards, and head further north for the Tolpuddle Goat Cheese Farm in Tarrawingee.

Head to Bright for country hospitality and a range of boutiques, breweries, coffee roasters and cafes, including Bright Brewery, Sixpence Coffee, and Gingerbaker.

Beechworth, further north, is a quintessential

country town with gorgeous architecture, museums, mountain biking and bushwalking.

Things to do in Eastern Victoria: Make your first stop in Paynesville, home to plenty of eateries such as Bullant Brewery and The Old Pub Paynesville.

From here you can head to 90 Mile Beach or Raymond Island – home to the Koala Trail.

The Lakes region is home to a network of lakes and lagoons, and to wildlife including lake dolphins and pelicans. The Mitchell River Silt Jetties are also a highlight, being the longest silt jetties in the world.

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out of the city. Alyx Cauchi, team leader of Flight Centre Mount Barker in the Adelaide Hills, says there is plenty to see and do.

“There are so many wineries still open. New Era Vineyards in Woodside is open, though it was almost destroyed, and next door, Bird in Hand was hardly touched. Shaw + Smith is also great – there are heaps (of wineries) open and they need your business,” Alyx says.

The region is also known for its food, so why not turn your mini break into an epicurean adventure.

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by the fires, but the vet and keepers have been doing amazing work helping with emergency wildlife cases from the fires,” Alyx says.

Big Rocking Horse in Gumerancha is also worth a visit with kids, as is Melba’s Chocolates in Woodside for a sweet treat.

“It’s about getting out and supporting the community as much as we can. There is so much to see and do, and the Adelaide Hills will welcome you with open arms,” Alyx says.

KANGAROO ISLAND, SOUTH AUSTRALIA Long lauded for its natural beauty and unique and varied wildlife, Kangaroo Island is the gem in South Australia’s crown of tourist hotspots.

The fires here were devastating, particularly in the southwest, affecting much of the island’s unique wildlife. However, Sameer

Roopawalla, Flight Centre South Australia Kangaroo Island expert, says the fires affected less than half of the island’s total area, which means there is plenty that remains open for business.

From Adelaide, it’s just over 90 minutes’ drive south to Cape Jervis. From here you can hop aboard the Kangaroo Island car and passenger ferry.

What to do on a day trip: Upon arrival at the island you’ll land in Penneshaw, a quaint village filled with charming pubs and restaurants.

For a day trip, Sameer recommends exploring the most eastern part of the island.

In Penneshaw, visit the Maritime and Folk Museum and see the little penguin colony, best viewed at sundown.

Head east along the coast for wine tasting at Dudley Wines.

Further east you’ll find Cape Willoughby Lighthouse, South Australia’s first lighthouse.

There are guided tours of the lightstation, bushwalks for all levels of fitness, and whale watching between May and October.

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End-of-life care is provided in the last few weeks of life, when a patient with a life-limiting illness is rapidly approaching death.

The needs of patients and their carers are higher at this time. This phase of palliative care is recognised as one in which increased services and support are essential to ensure quality, co-ordinated care from the healthcare team is being delivered.

This takes into account the terminal phase, or when the patient is recognised as imminently dying, death and extends to bereavement care. Palliative care helps people live as fully and as comfortably as possible when living with a lifelimiting or terminal illness.

Palliative care identifies and treats symptoms, which may be physical, emotional, spiritual or social.

Because palliative care is based on individual needs, the services offered will differ but may include: • Relief of pain and other symptoms, such as vomiting and shortness of breath.

• Resources such as equipment needed to aid care at home.

COMFORTING: Palliative care needs change as the final stage of life unfolds, but the constant focus of healthcare professionals and others is on easing symptoms.

• Assistance for families to come together to talk about sensitive issues.

• Links to other services such as home help and financial support.

• Support for people to meet cultural obligations.

• Support for emotional, social and spiritual concerns.

• Counselling and grief

support.

• Referrals to respite care services.

Who is palliative care for?

Palliative care is for people of any age who have been told they have a serious illness that cannot be cured. Such care helps people who have illnesses

like cancer, motor neurone disease or end-stage kidney or lung disease to manage symptoms and improve their quality of life.

For some people, palliative care may be beneficial from the time of diagnosis with a serious lifelimiting illness.

This care can be given

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Who is in the palliative care team?

Palliative care can be provided by a wide range of people, including your GP, aged care worker, cardiologist and any other healthcare provider, as well as family and other carers.

They are supported by specialist palliative care services if symptoms become difficult to manage.

Where is palliative care provided?

Palliative care is provided where the person and their family want, where possible.

This may include at home, in hospital, in a hospice or in a residential aged care facility.

Many people indicate a preference to die at home, and making this possible often depends on several factors: • The nature of the illness and amount of care the person needs.

• How much support is available from the person’s family and community.

• Whether the person has someone at home who can provide physical care and support.

For more information, contact the palliative care peak body in your state. Go to https://palliativecare .org.au/what-is-palliativecare.

End-of-life carers emphasise ability to protect most vulnerable AUSTRALIA is pulling out all stops to try to prevent a surge in coronavirus cases, while also rapidly preparing for the possibility that these efforts may not be successful.

As part of that preparation, decisions are being made about ensuring that appropriate health professionals are available

where they are needed most.

Palliative care will be an essential component of the frontline response as the number of Australians dying from COVID-19 increases.

Palliative care can help manage severe shortness of breath, other physical symptoms and distress, and provides personal support

for people who are seriously ill or dying and their families.

It can assist in prevention and reduction of clinical problems in the community and residential aged care, and help to ensure that vulnerable people can avoid unnecessary emergency department presentations and hospitalisation.

The president of the

European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC), Prof Christoph Ostgathe, has pointed out that during the disordered emergence of this pandemic, many people may not have considered why palliative care is an essential service. However, he warns, palliative care is key.

In a recent EAPC

statement, he wrote: “During this crisis, in palliative care we need to step up and ensure that we are proactive; that we fully utilise our well-honed skills and competencies and prove that we are an important part of our hospitals and our services’ crisis plans.

“We need to make it clear

that in a pandemic like this, palliative care is not a luxury, it is a human right!”

– Extract from Palliative Care Australia.

More information about the Australian COVID-19 Palliative Care Working Group and regular COVID-19 updates are available at palliativecare.org.au/covid19-updates.

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Take shopping to heart Planning can protect your health while saving money GOING out for groceries?

Here’s how to keep your weekly shop cheap and healthy.

A trip to the supermarket is one of the few reasons we’re leaving the house these days – and for households on a tight budget, there are ways to stock up that won’t hurt your heart or hip pocket.

The Heart Foundation is reminding Australians that heart-healthy eating doesn’t have to be expensive, and urging shoppers to stay safe as the health and economic effects of the COVID-19 crisis are felt around the country.

Heart Foundation director of health strategy Julie Anne Mitchell says a healthy diet is a key ingredient for protecting your heart throughout this pandemic and beyond.

“There are some tips you can follow when doing your weekly shop to choose heart-healthy foods that will save money and avoid wasting food,’’ Ms Mitchell said.

“Frozen vegetables, brown rice, chickpeas and tinned fish are just a few staples you can keep on hand for healthy and

BENEFITS IN STORE: By shopping when it’s quiet, sticking to a budget and choosing the right groceries, you can curb your health risks, save money and have a healthier lifestyle during the COVID-19 restrictions.

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budget-friendly meals at home (see list below).

“It’s also essential to protect yourself and others against COVID-19 infection when you go to your local supermarket or grocery store to grab provisions.

“Australians who are selfisolating or in quarantine are also advised to look out for healthier options when doing their grocery shopping online.”

Keep your pantry healthy on a budget • To keep your pantry well

stocked without breaking the bank, follow this action plan: • Make a grocery list and stick to it. Check what you already have in your fridge and pantry and only buy what you know you will use, to avoid wasting food.

• Eat the rainbow: One of the best ways to stay healthy is to fill up on plenty of fruit and vegetables.

The more colourful the mix the better. Frozen or canned vegetables and fruits are good alternatives when

fresh produce is hard to buy or too expensive, and they keep for longer.

If you are buying canned versions, try to choose the “no added salt’’ or “low salt’’ versions. Pick fruits canned in juice, not syrup.

• Mix it up. Buy more plant-based sources of protein, in line with the Heart Foundation’s updated dietary advice. Tinned or dried beans, lentils and chickpeas are cheaper and are healthy options for your pantry, or try tofu to keep in

the fridge. Eggs or canned fish (such as tuna) are also cheaper and easy to prepare.

• Use cheaper cuts. Look for less-expensive cuts of meat to use in stews, soups and casseroles. Cut off visible fat before cooking.

• Go for wholegrains.

Brown rice, wholegrain pasta and rolled oats are budget-friendly staples for healthy cooking. Swap white bread for a wholegrain loaf and freeze some of it.

• Snack smart. Go for a

handful of unsalted nuts or a small plate of cut-up fruit to curb afternoon cravings. You could also buy popping corn and make popcorn. It’s best to either have it plain (no added salt or butter) or flavour with other herbs and spices.

• Healthy hydration: Skip the aisle of sugary soft drinks and energy drinks and make water the drink of choice. It’s healthy, hydrating and free.

Stay safe while shopping • Good timing: Buy groceries only when you need to and try to shop at quieter times to avoid crowds. Organise your list by areas of the store to limit the time you spend there.

• Go the distance: Avoid close contact with other shoppers (keep at least 1.5 metres apart), and only touch items you are going to purchase.

• Hand hygiene: Wash your hands with soap and water before going into the store and take along alcoholbased hand sanitiser. If possible, disinfect your shopping trolley with wipes.

• Contain coughs: Cover your coughs and sneezes with your elbow or a tissue and dispose of tissues properly.

• Cards not cash: Use tap and pay if possible, to avoid handling cash.

• Keep it clean: Clean and sanitise frequently used objects such as your keys.

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Our company is here to assist you to buy a vehicle from a private seller with the protection of purchasing through a licenced motor dealer.

For a small upfront fee, we will take care of all the advertising and marketing required to sell your car.

We sit down, discuss your desired price and on successful sale of your vehicle a small percentage of

the sale price is charged for our services (ie finance, trade-in, warranty).

How many of us have tried selling our cars privately, spending good money on advertising for few or no inquiries, and when you do get an inquiry, you get a ridiculously low offer.

The major problem with selling privately is that you cannot offer the purchaser finance, a warranty or, in most cases, take a trade-in.

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CREATURE COMFORTS: Helping a senior with pet care is one way to reach out during the socially isolating COVID-19 pandemic.

Pawfect time to help seniors WITH older Australians being urged to stay home and only leave the house for essentials, many senior pet owners are at risk of losing social connections in the community, along with the ability to easily access basic pet care and services as they self-isolate.

Knowing their loyal companions can remain happy and healthy can have a huge impact on their daily lives and the lives of their cherished pet.

Here are some tips from PETstock Assist to help seniors stay socially connected as well as advice

on how people in their lives can assist with ongoing pet care during this crisis: Stay connected Keeping up with regular vet visits, accessing essential pet services and supplies and maintaining daily exercise are some of the difficulties the elderly may face. If you have a grandparent, elderly family friend or neighbour in your area with a pet, stay connected with them and assist wherever you can.

Communications that do not require any physical presence, such as facetime,

zoom, skype and Facebook, are some of the convenient online options that can help family and friends stay virtually connected.

Alternatively, a friendly daily phone call is a straightforward way to check in on those not-sotech-savvy individuals, along with those who may not have access to the internet.

Provide assistance Volunteering to take a dog out for its daily walk, collecting pet food or teaching seniors how to shop online for pet supplies are just a few ways in which

the community can provide ongoing support.

Emergency care plan Family, friends and neighbours should check in with their loved ones to ensure an emergency care plan is in place for their pet in the event they are required to undergo hospitalisation or for other reasons such as finances.

Short-term emergency care or fostering If a loved one has contracted COVID-19, try to have their pet cared for by another member of the

family or close friends.

Foster care is a rewarding experience and the perfect way to pay it forward during the COVID-19 crisis if you are in a position to help out seniors in need.

Vet care PETstock Vet Hospitals can assist and treat pets of patients who have been unwell, diagnosed with COVID-19 or unable to visit the vet.

Seniors can call 13 PETS for more information or alternatively video chat with a veterinarian in Australia from 6am to midnight on

PETstock’s Vet Chat service.

Donate It’s also a great time to consider a donation to your local group as most rely heavily on fundraising at events that have now been cancelled or postponed.

There are hundreds of dedicated organisations and charities making a difference to the lives of seniors and their pets, such as PETstock’s charity organisation PETstock Assist or its partner charity, Cherished Pets Foundation in Victoria. Visit petstock.com.au.

LiveLife personal mobile alarms give you peace of mind BRAND INSIGHTS AT LiveLife Alarms we believe people should live the life they deserve.

We believe seniors and other at-risk individuals should be able to control their own destiny following an emergency situation such as a fall. We believe there is no good reason to pay for monitoring by a third party when those who love us the most are perfectly capable of coming to our aid.

We have spent years developing a superior product to help seniors live life without fear and with greater independence.

We’ve heard too many stories and shared in too many experiences of those who have fallen. Families of the elderly worry about their parents often, especially when their parents live alone or far away. Now that many seniors are socially isolated, the need has never been greater.

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Dianne Charman AS WE begin to see the financial effects of the global pandemic, many Australians may be wondering how the changes in the stockmarket affect their super.

Most people will have at least part of their superannuation savings invested through the stockmarket, which means its ebbs and flows do affect you.

Anything from natural disaster, terror attacks such as 9/11 or pandemics like we are currently seeing will have an economic impact, which can, in turn, result in changes on the stockmarket.

However, it can be difficult to anticipate the gravity or longevity of the impact.

For example, a localised illness in one suburb, or even

Minimising hit to super ‘‘

in one city, would not necessarily have an impact on global markets, but with a spread such as COVID-19, we may see a broader financial impact.

The ways and degree to which fluctuations in the stockmarket affect your super will depend on your asset allocation. Those with an aggressive allocation are more likely to be impacted more heavily than those who have a safer allocation.

For example, during a boom period, an aggressive asset allocation, meaning that your super is invested in a mix of stocks for maximum return, would provide greater growth (or increased valuation) of your assets than if your super was invested in conservative options, which are safer, but usually give smaller returns.

Is my super safe?

Remember that investing is

The ways and degree to which fluctuations in the market affect your super depend on asset allocation.

a long-term game, and investing through your super is no different from actively investing through managed funds or individual investments.

Market crashes and corrections are a fact of life.

Whenever you invest, you need to ensure your risk profile is aligned with both your needs and your goals.

It’s a good idea to seek professional advice to ensure your asset allocation enables you to meet your retirement goals but also keeps your risk at a level you

are comfortable with. Don’t make any big financial decisions in the coming months without thinking through the implications.

I’m still worried…

In the coming days, weeks and months, it’s important not to make any big financial decisions based on emotion without seriously thinking through the implications.

If you’re still worried about how the stockmarket is affecting your super, the first thing you need to do is write down why you are

worried. Whatever reasons you wrote down, it’s likely the core issue is that you’re worried about your balance going down.

If you aren’t retiring for 10 or 20 years, there is time to wait for recovery, so fewer reasons to worry right now.

We invest for the long term and markets recover.

It’s a waiting game as to when the market will pick back up and you have time on your side with this one.

As you move closer to retirement, you should be speaking to a financial adviser regularly. Especially in the five years directly before you make the change. Over this time, you will most likely slowly reduce your growth assets allocation and build up your defensive assets.

The current financial climate is a timely reminder of the incredible importance

of actively managing your super, with the help of a financial professional. Your super is not something that should be left in the bottom drawer to look at later, it’s the nest egg of your retirement.

Now is the time to seek more advice, get a better understanding of the stockmarket, and learn more about your super so you understand more what the ebbs and flows of the market mean to you and your situation.

– Dianne Charman, of Jade Financial Group, is an authorised representative of AMP Financial Planning Pty Ltd, ABN 89 051 208 327, AFS licence No. 232706. Any advice given is general only and has not taken into account your objectives, financial situation or needs.

Because of this, before acting on any advice, you should consult a financial planner to consider how appropriate the advice is to your objectives, financial situation and needs.

Legal rush a sign of times as pandemic prompts reviews A LAWYER is urging Australians to act now to protect their personal and business assets and affairs as the COVID-19 environment presents unprecedented challenges to validly executing legal documents.

Melbourne-based Rigby Cooke partner and wills and estates specialist Rachael Grabovic said the uncertain climate had triggered a rush of inquiries to review all kinds of legal documents, but powers of attorney were at the top of the list given stringent execution requirements.

“Powers of attorney documents are the most difficult to execute, even under normal circumstances, and moving into this new environment it’s becoming increasingly challenging,” Ms Grabovic said.

“For these documents, they must be signed not only by the principal and a regular witness, but also by an additional ‘qualified witness’ as set out by legislation.

“Qualified witnesses include lawyers, judges, notaries public, justices of the peace, medical

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practitioners and a police officer above the rank of sergeant – and access to these people is reducing by the day.

“With people working from home, medical practitioners moving to remote or telehealth models and police officers facing competing priorities, we are encouraging our clients to act now before these qualified witnesses are in even higher demand.

“Add to this the constantly evolving socialdistancing policies which further complicate the process, with gatherings now limited to two persons at a time.”

Ms Grabovic warned there was no “middle ground’’ for power of attorney documents.

“Unless the document is executed correctly, it’s invalid,’’ she said.

“If it’s invalid you can’t act on it, and the only recourse you have is the Civil and Administrative Tribunal.

“And as you can imagine, these tribunals are not holding face-to-face hearings – they are prioritising urgent hearings and conducting these over

WISH LIST: Many people are updating their legal affairs during the lockdown.

the phone.” Ms Grabovic said her firm was also fielding a flurry of inquiries about updating wills, and from people looking to secure their personal and business assets. “Wills are

proving less of a problem in this environment because the law does provide for informally executed documents,” Ms Grabovic said.

“However, it doesn’t

mean we can be complacent.

“We’ve dealt with a number of informally executed wills in the past and have been able to successfully obtain probate

or letters of administration with the will annexed.

“This itself is not a simple process, therefore it is always preferred that a will is validly executed.’’

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Daredevil heiress a wartime lifesaver THE heroism of a daredevil Brisbane heiress who saved a former Russian president from Stalin and the Nazis is the rollicking tale shared by Australian biographer Susanna de Vries (pictured) in her latest book.

Destined to be 83-yearold de Vries’ last book about Australian women, the colourful story of Nell Tritton is her swansong, she says.

She stumbled across the story while valuing paintings at Nell’s childhood home, Elderslie, now at Pullenvale.

Nell, an heiress to the Brisbane Tritton furniture fortune, married ex-Russian prime minister Alexander Kerensky in 1939. In 1940.

She courageously saved him from Stalin and the Nazis using her champion rally car driver skills during a harrowing journey on a cross-country escape.

“Nell lived an amazing life in Paris,” de Vries says.

“She was in danger of assassination by Stalin, along with Kerensky, but died on April 11, 1946, aged 49 in Brisbane. She is buried at Dutton Park Cemetery in South Brisbane.”

Nell drove the couple away from Paris as the Germans invaded, with Kerensky on Stalin’s hit list.

They eventually reached safety in the US, but with Nell’s life shortened by kidney failure aggravated by poor drinking water on their journey, they returned to Brisbane and Elderslie in 1945.

Tragically, Nell’s kidney

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damage started in childhood after drinking water from the lead-lined tank at their previous home.

In 1946, as Nell lay dying tended by her mother at Elderslie, Kerensky would stalk the verandas with a revolver to protect himself and Nell from Stalin’s

assassins. “After Nell’s death, Kerensky spent eight more months at Elderslie as he could not get a passage back to America,” de Vries says.

Kerensky eventually returned to the US and was made a professor of Russian history at Stamford

University. He died in New York in 1970. Nell, The Australian Heiress who Saved her Husband from Stalin & the Nazis will be available from Amazon, Book Depository and Kobo.

Published by Pirgos Press, the illustrated book retails for $34.95.

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IF you think Lisa Ireland’s novel The Secret Life of Shirley Sullivan is a bit banal, keep reading; deep into the entertaining read are surprises.

The Australian author has based her book both on a newspaper story about an elderly couple running away from a nursing home and on a collection of letters written between her parents, and their photos.

The story swings between the couple’s life during the 1960s and the present, when Shirley walks her husband, Frank, out of his aged care home.

They embark on an adventure down memory lane and back to their marital home in Victoria.

Along the way she encounters the challenges of looking after a person with dementia; the humour and the sadness.

Shirley’s use of technology, her skilful management of relationships, and her deep love of Frank and her friend Rita, turn the adventure on its head several times.

WHAT do you do when you’re told you have terminal cancer at 50?

Ruby has always been the generous mediator among her friends, family and colleagues, which is why they have all turned up to celebrate her 50th birthday.

But after a few too many glasses of champers, Ruby’s speech doesn’t exactly go to plan. Instead of delivering the witty and warm words her guests are expecting, Ruby reveals what she really thinks of every one of them.

She also accuses her husband, Harry, of having an affair. Saving the best till last, Ruby lambasts her mother for playing her three daughters against each other. It’s blisteringly brutal.

The birthday girl concludes with the throwaway comment that she has terminal cancer.

Courageous? Or ruthlessly selfish? She has cashed in her life savings and plans on taking her two sisters cruising into the sunset for a dose of husband replacement therapy.

– HRT: Husband Replacement Therapy, by Kathy Lette.

Vantage, RRP $32.99

– Published by Penguin.

RRP $32.99. Also available in eBook and audio.

Insight into lingering price of injustice DURING the Great War, law was used in everyday life as a tool to discriminate, oppress, censor and deprive many Australians of property, liberty and basic human rights.

A nation often amends its laws during war, not least to regulate life at home.

Yet few historians have considered the impact of the law on Australians during World War I. In this original book, Catherine Bond breathes life into the laws that were

central to the way people were managed in Australia from 1914–18.

Engaging and revelatory, Law in War holds those who wrote the laws to account, exposing the sheer breadth and impact of this wartime legal regimen, the injustices of which linger to this day.

More than anything, it illuminates how ordinary people were caught up in – and sometimes destroyed by – these laws created in the name of victory.

“Law in War gives us

insights into the law and Australia’s Great War that Charles Bean declined to publish ninety-odd years ago,’’ Professor Peter Stanley said. “Pioneering, full of wonderful life and energy, the result has been worth waiting for.”

An associate professor at UNSW Sydney, Catherine Bond researches in intellectual property law, specifically copyright history; the relationship between law and war in Australia; and Australian

legal history. She has published widely in leading Australian and international law journals on topics ranging from Crown copyright to plain packaging of tobacco products, to the introduction of a patent system in the Game of Thrones world of Westeros.

Her first book, Anzac: The Landing, The Legend, The Law, was published in 2016.

– Law in War by Catherine Bond. New South Publishing.

RRP $34.99.

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(7) 3 What rich, savoury paste is made from finely minced ingredients? (4) 4 What describes a brief temporary recovery in a share price after a substantial fall? (4,3,6) 5 What reddish-brown colour is associated with old photographs? (5) 6 In which magazine did the comic strip “Little Annie Fannie” first appear, in 1962? (7) 7 An arachnophobe has an irrational fear of what? (7) 12 Architecturally speaking, fenestration is the arrangement of what? (7) 13 Who was Peter Davison’s character in TV’s All Creatures Great and Small? (7) 14 Which Russian wrote Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse?

(7) 15 A huge aircraft plant operated near which city in Nebraska during WWII? (5) 17 What is “relating to the ear or hearing”? (5) 19 Who leads prayers in a mosque? (4)

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Across 1. Assist (4) 8. Gather (10) 9. Block (8) 10. Seized (4) 12. Resist (6) 14. Afternoon nap (6) 15. Beam above a door or window (6) 17. Distress call (6) 18. Join (4) 19. Settled (8) 21. Of the highest quality (5-5) 22. Throw (4)

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Down: 1 Dewar, 2 Chateau, 3 Pâté, 4 Dead cat bounce, 5 Sepia, 6 Playboy, 7 Spiders, 12 Windows, 13 Tristan, 14 Pushkin, 15 Omaha, 17 Aural, 19 Imam.

QUICK CROSSWORD Across: 1. Abet 8. Accumulate 9. Obstruct 10. Took 12. Oppose 14. Siesta 15.

Lintel 17. Mayday 18. Seam 19. Resolved 21. First-class 22. Toss.

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Outrageous 13. Optimist 16. Lyrics 17. Mishap 18. Safe 20. Last.

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