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Winds of change Gail Forrer Seniors Group Editor THIS month we lead with Kathryn Greiner, a woman who, both in private and public, has her finger on the pulse of older Australians. At 73 years old, Greiner is not keen on being described as “elderly’’. The word elderly seems to have come from another time – long before this generation of older people reaped the benefits of modern medicine and lifestyle. COVID-19 has also placed aged people in front of the debate because of the initial perception there were some who considered the virus an older person’s problem. However, the Prime Minister’s has said: “Every Australian matters. It doesn’t matter whether they have just been born or are approaching the end of their lives — every Australian matters.” Certainly, the intergenerational solidarity shown through
many and varied acts of community kindness has supported the value of older adults during this difficult time. Sadly, I also have to inform you that due to fast-changing world events in the areas of technology and including the COVID-19 virus, this will be the last issue of Seniors News (both in print and digitally). Seniors News comprises a small team of dedicated professionals who have endeavoured to provide you, our readers, with inspiring, practical and entertaining reading aimed at empowering the older person. I trust that in some way this has been achieved. Finally, to our readers and advertisers, thanks so much for all your support, it has been a pleasure working with you. Gail
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SOBERING PREDICTIONS: Despite some positives, Kathryn Greiner (AO) sees difficult times ahead for seniors unless government financial support is ramped up.
MEMO to ScoMo: 70 is not “elderly”, bristles Kathryn Greiner (AO) as she stares down the barrel of the “new normal’’. The chairwoman of the NSW Government’s Ministerial Advisory Council on Ageing and the CRC Longevity Project recognises nothing is the same right now, and nor will it be in the future when Australia, and in fact the world, gets to the other side of COVID-19. “Social change is a pendulum that swings out,” she says. “This time it has swung way out, causing great disruption to our lives. “When that pendulum comes back and things come back to what we now call the ‘new normal’, it will never be in the same place that it was again. We are going to be further down the
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stopped the initiative as stock levels have returned to normal. “The concept that our older people deserve a bit more space and time to shop, I think, is a classic one,” Kathryn says. However, for many seniors, asking them to do this at 8am is a tough call as they struggle to be mobile at that early hour. Work changes The call is for the doubling of the JobSeeker (formerly Newstart) allowance to stay even though the Government has said it will reduce it in late September. It is vital for those who are unemployed and not old enough for the age pension. “We are going back to post-Great Depression thinking by government, which is why there has to be a platform to support people who cannot work and who
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this ready market, that market has gone. And they will have reputational issues to address,” Kathryn says.
I fear it will be even harder for somebody who is over 55 to be maintained in employment. cannot find jobs,” Kathryn says. Kathryn sees those over 50 struggling even more to find a job or keep one. “I fear we are going back to an era where it will be even harder for somebody who is over 55 to be maintained in employment,” she says. The challenge will come from younger people’s attitude to working. The favoured gig economy will slow down as young people seek to move from casual work towards permanent employment.
Family stress “The numbers will go up,” Kathryn says about psychological elder abuse, which is happening behind closed doors. “We are hearing older people being confined to their bedrooms in a generational share house.’’ It is also expected that many Baby Boomers will be asked to help their children, who will struggle to meet their financial commitments.
The Play for Lives campaign is one of the positive initiatives to come from the pandemic.
Staying home It’s highly unlikely many Baby Boomers who have saved to travel overseas every two or more years will have the cash to spend on their dream adventures.
Many will find the value of their investments has fallen significantly. So too their dividend income. “Where the travel industry has picked up the last four or five years with
Cash no longer king Cash, for the most part, has disappeared. That’s OK for those seniors who can afford an NBN connection, Kathryn says, but what about those who can’t afford it or haven’t become accustomed to technology? “We know the
Commonwealth Bank is a hair’s breadth from, if not already, no longer accepting cheques; everyone will have to do internet banking. For a lot of older people, that’s a struggle.” Telehealth nod Another change that has every likelihood of staying is telehealth, if Federal Health Minister Health Greg Hunt has his way. It’s not intended to replace in-person medical consultations, but for those health issues that can easily be managed via phone or video-link conversations, telehealth could well help to improve the accessibility of medical personnel. Ageism arises While the EveryAGE Counts campaign is working overtime to quell the resurgence of ageist attitudes among the younger generations, the idea posed as a question to
Prime Minister Scott Morrison by Leigh Sales on the ABC’s7.30 show on April 16, about locking down older Australians until the coronavirus crisis passes, receives an aghast response from Kathryn. “That is absolutely outrageous,” the 73-year-old says. “The Government needs to avoid the ageist attitude digging deep into our society. They need to do a report that shows that the virus did kill people from across the age ranges.’’ Good neighbours Community connections have been rife. They are bringing out the best in many people, who are supporting their neighbours in many ways. But is it sustainable? Seniors will probably see these community outpourings dissipate as the younger generations return to work.
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having drinks I was having breakfast”. “What surprised me was that club has members from all over the place – Russia, Japan, mainland USA, the UK, Greece, France, Shanghai, as well as Hawaii,” he said of the Hawaiian eClub. During the past three weeks, he has made a good friend from a US club in Casper, Wyoming, who was doing similar “drop-ins”. The pair exchanged contact details after repeatedly finding themselves in the same meetings, and Michael Howe has since been guest
speaker at Burleigh Heads’ meeting. Allan compared Burleigh’s 42 members – still the second or third-largest club on the Gold Coast – to Casper’s more than 100, and the Coast venue versus the landlocked, mountainous Wyoming. However, he said he had been surprised overall to discover the similarities in ideas of members and the community causes Rotary clubs supported around the world. To find out more, go to @burleighheadsrotary1 on Facebook, or phone 0438 225 820.
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Community group guide Since this is our last edition I would like to say a special thanks to you for taking the time each month to email your community notes and pictures to us. You have made a great contribution to our newspaper. Gail, Editor.
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THE enormous success of the ABC television series Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds has led to researchers looking at how this intergenerational experiment can be offered in the broader community. There have been similar projects conducted through other aged care facilities, but few are known to exist in the non-residential seniors’ community. With support funding from the University of NSW’s Ageing Futures Institute, project co-leader, Dr Stephanie Ward from the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), and Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) senior research scientist Dr Ruth Peters, will investigate how to bring older adults and young children together for learning activities. “We were all initially inspired by the television
program, which I was on,” Dr Ward said. The geriatrician found the key outcomes from the show were purpose and connection. “I could see the way that the experiment gave the adults a sense of purpose and how important that was, for some of them, in changing their health and their attitudes,’’ Dr Ward said. “The sense of connection is incredibly important for all of us at any age but can become more difficult to maintain at an older age. “It reminded us all how incredibly resilient and resourceful older and younger people are and what magic can happen when you bring the two generations together,” Dr Ward said. “Coming out of that, we want to look at what is sustainable and feasible in the longer term for intergenerational projects and what will be useful for
community-based older populations.‘’ The multidisciplinary Intergenerational Integration Initiative project will look at the best way to deliver a similar project to what was conducted in the aged care home but within the broader senior community. Dr Peters said: “We want to bring together older adults living in the community with children living in that community.’’ Dr Ward added: “We saw in the television show how beneficial it could be but we need more evidence to find the best way to do this.’’ While the TV show was based on four-days-a-week interaction, the researchers are considering a shorter format. The decision will hinge on the feedback they receive from an Australia-wide survey, which they want anyone aged 18 and over to complete. “We want to know what
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WELL-LIVED LIFE: Marlies Green celebrates her 100th year at Tallebudgera's St Andrew's Retirement Living and Aged Care … always grateful for the help that saved her life during World War II.
THERE were times when Marie-Louise (Marlies) Green didn’t think she would make it to 25, never mind 100. Her warm smile belies the hardships and horrors she witnessed having been born to a Jewish family in Essen, Germany, on May 22, 1920, just 13 years before the Nazis came to power. Her secret, she said in the lead-up to her 100th birthday celebrations at St Andrew’s Retirement Living and Aged Care, Tallebudgera, was to “keep smiling, keep busy, keep laughing, enjoy everything in moderation … and lots of sleep”. “It’s also important to get active every day – I walk every day, which I picked up from my parents, who took me hiking in Switzerland as a child.” However, listening to Marlies speak in an oral history interview with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2002, it is clear that an empathic heart and having inherited her parents’ strength have a lot to do with it as well. She said she did not speak much about her experiences, but was recording her story then because “The world should know what happened … I always thought after the war that people might have learned and it would never happen again, but I was quite wrong because you see it happening not just for
the Jews but in other countries; the cruelties go on for ever”. Farewell, Germany Marlies recalled an almost idyllic childhood, completely free of discrimination, despite being the only Jews in their area. “We felt as German as anybody else,” she said, attending synagogue only on High Holidays and even joining in Christmas celebrations so the children would not miss out. In early 1934, with the rise of Hitler, her school threw out all the Jewish students because it feared closure. “That was really the first time I felt different,’’ Marlies said. Faced with everincreasing rules about where Jews could and could not go, and after her brother was bashed by a group of boys for being Jewish, her parents decided to leave Germany for rural Holland. Marlies recalled her mother as “a wonderful, strong woman; not really physically strong, but mentally … she could do anything that she wanted to do”. That included having sent Marlies to a thenrevolutionary Steiner school in her early years, and raising the family as vegetarians because “God didn’t create animals for us to eat them’’, long before this was an accepted philosophy. Holland is occupied When Holland was then
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I always thought that after the war people might have learned, but I was wrong. occupied by the Nazis from May 1940, shops and restaurants were closed to Jews, they were forced to wear yellow stars on all their clothes and travel restrictions began. Dutch resistance was quickly snuffed out when, having attempted to boycott
the new travel rules, the Nazis “picked out about 100 men and shot them” in punishment. Living in the countryside, Marlies and her brother found work on farms, because farm workers were needed to feed the German army. Even so, in August 1942 they were summonsed to attend Westerbork transit camp – the first stop for many on their way to concentration camps. They were lucky to be given a reprieve thanks to a determined neighbour and the farmers insisting to German authorities that the siblings were essential for production. “ … it was good for me and my brother, but leaving all the others behind was a
dreadful feeling,” she said, with tears in her eyes. Marlies still treasures that piece of paper, saying “this is my most precious document, which gives me the permission to leave the camp, and that is what has saved my life, just that little piece of paper”. However, her parents were ordered to Amsterdam’s Jewish quarter, and a month later the children were ordered to join them – four living in a single room and watching in horror each night as Nazi trucks picked people up at random … waiting for their turn to come. They were told people were being taken for work parties, “and we tried to believe it, but in the back of
our mind, we did know it was not just that”. “All the possessions of the Jews who had been sent to concentration camps were sent to Germany by train and the trains had big placards on them: ‘This is a gift of love from Holland’, so that the German population would think that Holland was on their side … so they were brought up with lies left and right,” Marlies said. The family’s fate Again, Marlies said she and her brother were blessed to find friends who, despite putting their own lives at risk, separately took them in and hid them for the rest of the war – 2½ years. Her parents were not so fortunate, with her mother
saying, “if all Jews have to go, I go with them”. After the war, she learnt that her parents had died at the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland, where at least 170,000 Jewish people were killed. Marlies met her mathematician husband, Bert, who worked with Albert Einstein, in Edinburgh, married in Dublin and the pair moved to Australia for him to start a department of mathematical physics at Adelaide University. She has two children, Roy and Joanne, of whom she is very proud. Joanne, who was able to be there for the 100th birthday celebrations, said her mother always wanted
to repay the help she received during the war, and “adopted” anyone new to Adelaide, ensuring they weren’t lonely. “She’s been such a loving mother, grandmother and ‘second mother’ to so many people,” Joanne said. Many years after leaving, Marlies did return to visit German friends, but admitted, “It was a strange feeling, especially when people came and shook my hand … I wondered what that hand had done. “You couldn’t really trust anybody: they all said they hadn’t done anything … but they must have … somebody must have.” To learn more about the Holocaust, go to https:// www.ushmm.org/.
Blooming lovely gesture a highlight of Elaine’s big day Alison Houston FLORAL FEAST: Nerang's Elaine Jebb received a beautiful basket of 90 roses for her 90th birthday.
TURNING 90 looked different to how Nerang’s Elaine Jebb and her family had pictured it – but with a basket of 90 roses, it was still pretty as a picture. Elaine’s son Andrew, who lives in Los Angeles, sent the roses because he, his wife and children were unable to be there themselves due to COVID-19 restrictions. Another son, Stephen, is also feeling the effects of restrictions at his Sovereign Hotel in Townsville, but Elaine said he was always “a great help to her”. She was grateful that restrictions had lifted slightly so she could celebrate with some of her family, taking over a restaurant on the Coomera River – even if that meant just 10 at the party!
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Bringing the expo to you THERE is no getting away from it – COVID-19 restrictions have made life pretty challenging for all of us, as individuals and as businesses. Many of our readers look forward to this time of year when they can get out of the house and head along to a seniors expo to see what’s new among the industries and businesses who count them as customers. For business owners, the expos traditionally offer the opportunity to meet new customers face-to-face and share their products or services. Right now, having thousands of people wander through an exhibition hall is not able to happen. There are still great products and services out there to be showcased though, and that’s where the Seniors Virtual Expo 2020 is
here to help. For the months of June and July, Seniors News will host an online virtual expo on our website at www.seniorsnews.com.au, where we will share the latest products and services from our advertisers, supported in print with regional advertising most relevant to readers of each of our eight monthly publications. By promoting businesses online and in print, we’re making it easier for readers to contact businesses in the way that suits them best, and making it possible for readers to order products directly from the websites of the businesses involved. For many businesses, online sales have helped to keep them going while their shopfronts are closed. For Seniors, our online
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Island haven back in swim DAYDREAMING of a winter break on a Barrier Reef tropical island where you can dive and snorkel among the coral? Your dreams can come true when Lady Elliot Island reopens on June 13 for overnight guests and day trips from Brisbane. Lady Elliot is within 250km of the Gold Coast, Brisbane, Hervey Bay and Bundaberg via a scenic day flight. Lady Elliot Island Eco Resort owner Peter Gash says the family-run island will operate on a 50 per cent-bed capacity under their COVIDSafe plan. This ensures all operations comply with strict Queensland Health guidelines. Peter also operates the Seair light aircraft that will V1 - SEGE01Z01MA
whisk you from Redcliffe Airport to Lady Elliot and back for the best reef day trip from Brisbane. The plane boards early morning and flies up the coastline past the holiday spots of Mooloolaba and Noosa and the contrasting sands of Rainbow Beach. After an 80-minute flight, guests arrive at Lady Elliot, and it doesn’t take long before you are dipping into the water and swimming among the coral. Manta rays and turtles are frequently spotted here, and divers and snorkellers both find tropical fish, sea cucumbers, starfish, clams and sea urchins. Guided snorkel tours and snorkel safaris help ensure everyone gets a chance to explore the reef. There is also a glass-bottomed boat, which reveals all the underwater action as you glide over the surface.
On low tide the beach becomes a different sort of wonderland as the island’s marine biologists take groups out to explore the littoral zone. Be sure to pack a pair of old sandshoes or beach shoes to walk among the coral. Bright-blue starfish are plentiful here. It doesn’t take long to walk around this 45-hectare coral cay island, which is home to 88 species of birds. Once mined for guano, it is now a wildlife sanctuary. Peter has put Lady Elliot Island Eco Resort at the environment forefront with hybrid solar-power stations replacing diesel engines. The Lady Elliot daytrip flight gives you five hours to explore the island. You’ll be able to pack in plenty during that time, including a swim, snorkel, beach walk, island exploration and lunch. For more information, visit ladyelliot.com.au.
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BATHED IN BEAUTY: The 15km Tarawera Trail is based around Lake Tarawera, near Rotorua, New Zealand. The trail ends in Mt Tarawera’s shadow. Pictures: Graeme Wilson
Immerse yourself in nature with lakeside walk Graeme Wilson FOLLOWING last December’s tragic eruption on White Island, it was with some trepidation that I contemplated tackling New Zealand’s latest great walk. The 15km Tarawera Trail near Rotorua ends in the shadows of active volcano Mt Tarawera, responsible for the country’s most devastating eruption in 1886. It took the lives of more than 100 locals – completely burying a nearby village – with ash spread across 15,000sq km and the accompanying roar heard almost 1000km away in Christchurch. But with history showing the average space between eruptions is about 1500 years, and zero recent sign of activity, my partner and I set off justifiably confident that this sleeping giant was unlikely to reawaken any
time soon. The free walk starts on the shores of Lake Tarawera, about a 15-minute drive from downtown Rotorua in the North Island, and winds its way around the lake with picnic and toilet facilities along the way. While some choose to make a full day of the picturesque undulating return walk from the Te Wairoa carpark to Te Rata Bay (Hot Water Beach), we decided to spend a leisurely five hours on the one-way trip. That still allowed time for a well-earned relax in the heated lake waters at journey’s end before a 15minute water taxi ride provided a rapid return to our starting point. On arrival at Hot Water Beach, you’re greeted by plumes of steam spiralling invitingly upwards as boiling water from thermal springs creates a naturally heated
shoreside spa. Along the preceding path, short climbs and descents alternate as you work your way from pumice-strewn lakeside beaches to elevated vantage points among the native ferns so famously replicated on the jerseys of New Zealand sporting teams. The Kiwis are justifiably proud of the renowned beauty of their country and we deliberately took our time to stop regularly and take it all in. We encountered just a few fellow hikers on our walk and, of course, the trail has been even quieter in the past few months, with New Zealanders locked down during a highly successful response to contain the COVID-19 virus that has decimated other parts of the world. But the hope is that with both Australia and New Zealand having standout
success in managing the virus, country borders will soon reopen to allow transTasman travel. When that happens, I highly recommend you grab the chance to venture across “the ditch” and enjoy all our near neighbours have to offer – and as a bonus be able to do it in relative peace as the rest of the world remains locked out and watching on in envy.
Here’s cheers to good times at the newly reopened Secret Spot Hot Tubs. It’s the perfect place to fully submerge yourself in the healing waters or just soak your feet while enjoying a glass or two of your favourite tipple.
Rotorua itself is New Zealand’s cultural tourism capital and staying a night either side of your Tarawera walk opens up many exciting opportunities. Maybe take a mountain bike ride in the vast forestry areas, stroll through the awe-inspiring Redwood Memorial Grove, and ride the gondola to the top of Mt Ngongotaha to take in panoramic views of Rotorua
and surrounds. And if Hot Water Beach has you hooked on the soothing qualities of a dip in steaming water, drop into the newly reopened Secret Spot Hot Tubs. Fully submerge yourself in the soothing, healing waters, or choose to just soak your feet while enjoying a glass or two of your favourite beverage. Sweet as.
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How you can say goodbye from distance Funeral options let you attend service in spirit Doris Zagdanski WHILE social distancing regulations have had a major impact on funerals, we can still create meaningful farewells by using special ways to include people who can’t attend in person. Funerals always matter, but now they matter more than ever because people may not have had the chance to visit or say goodbye to a family member or friend before they pass away. So they enable us to say what needs to be said, allow our grief to be expressed, and allow us to connect with people who would normally reach out. And it’s not just adults who are affected. Being able to say goodbye at a funeral is also important for children. There are several ways the funeral industry is helping families and friends say goodbye to a loved one while the current Covid-19 restrictions are in place.
• Technology is available to live-stream funerals, allowing people to view the ceremony from all over the world. Funerals can also be recorded or filmed to be shared on social media. • At the service, empty chairs can be placed to
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Ask the celebrant to read friends’ Facebook and email messages. represent family and friends who can’t attend. The name or even a photo of the person who is absent can be placed on the chair. • Collect Facebook, Instagram and email messages and ask the celebrant to read them at the funeral, to represent those who can’t attend. These could also be printed and displayed on a photo board at the funeral.
• Many funerals these days include a DVD photo presentation. Family and friends of the deceased can still create one but ask each family member who cannot attend to send their favourite photos to be included, along with friends’ text messages. • Photos and messages from people who can’t attend the funeral can be placed in or on the coffin by the funeral director. Children can be encouraged to draw or write special messages, which can be placed in the hands of the deceased or sealed in an envelope inside the coffin. • Use the death/funeral notice or Facebook to tell friends what time the funeral is and ask them to join you at that time by doing something special to remember the deceased. They could light a candle at home, raise a toast, play a special song, say a prayer together, or cook their favourite meal. • Flowers can be sent to
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the funeral to represent those who cannot attend. They can be arranged around the coffin or displayed prominently, and card messages can be read aloud as part of the service. • You can organise a drive-by of the family home by the hearse, so people who can’t attend the funeral can be in the front garden to
pay their respects. The hearse could stop to allow a minute’s silence. • A viewing can be held with or without a funeral ceremony. You can speak with your funeral director about an extended viewing time so people who cannot attend the funeral still have an opportunity to say a personal goodbye.
For more advice on coping with loss and grief, go to mygriefassist.com.au. – Doris Zagdanski has been involved in the funeral industry for 30 years, helping families arrange funerals as well as volunteering in bereavement support groups. She is the author of seven books on the subject of grief and empathy.
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REACH OUT: Bereavement educator Doris Zagdanski has been involved in the funeral industry for 30 years.
NATIONAL Seniors’ latest report highlights new research on the grandparenting activities of older Australians. The report explores the “unique and irreplaceable contribution of grandparents’’ and seeks to understand how grandparenting, from grandparents’ point of view, ‘’should fit into the provision of childcare in Australia’’. It says informal, unpaid care is filling the wide gap in the demand for publicly
funded care at home. Among the informal and unpaid carers, a special group of people – grandparents – provides childcare and support to create a better future for the next generation. “Grandparenting, whether done out of love, duty or necessity, is a critical part of care provision and family structure and cultures,’’ the report says. “The decision of the National Cabinet through the Covid-19 pandemic to
require people, particularly those over 70, to stay at home and social distance has shone a search light on this ‘behind-the-scenes’ work. “The COVID crisis has spotlighted the significant workforce that grandparents provide through the impacts observed when they cannot do it. “This report finds that grandparenting motivations are not mercenary but all about contributions to family and society.’’ SEGE01Z01MA - V1
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APPETITE FOR A CHALLENGE: At 75, journalist Ray Martin has found comedy as the host of new lifestyle satire At Home Alone Together.
Ray’s still right at home at 75 Tania Phillips TELEVISION host and journalist Ray Martin has always kept his personal life private but a new “home show” and COVID-19 lockdown conditions have meant a change of heart. At Home Alone Together, to air on the ABC on Wednesday nights at 8.30, is a satirical look at life under lockdown through the scope of a lifestyle show, with the veteran journalist acting as host and straight man to a group of young comedians. The whole program came together quickly, according to the 75-year-old, with the ABC agreeing and turning the show around in just a few weeks. And while it shocked him to gain the approval of the network quickly, the real boss and person with the power was his wife of 50 years, Diane. A notoriously private person who shielded their two children from the limelight too, Diane wasn’t thrilled to have their house turned into a television set – putting their lives and possessions on show. “It’s a huge breakthrough because I’ve been really private about my family. In the 50-odd years of my V1 - SEGE01Z01MA
career there have never been photos of my kids. Often with Bert and Patti (Newton) and so on, the children were part of their television persona but my wife is very private,” Ray said. “We had to get her across the line – she doesn’t like the idea of doing a ‘Grand Designs’ in our place, where everyone gets to see your carpets and your paintings and prints. She thinks that’s intrusive. “But we still had to film it here so we have filmed it in the kitchen, the family room and the lounge room and outside and up on the deck, and in my study. It’s been kind of fun.” However, Diane Martin’s approval didn’t come without a little extra convincing on the part of her husband. “My wife is a house and kitchen Nazi, so it means she and I go round on a Sunday night, before we film on a Monday and Tuesday, with a mop and a vacuum cleaner,” he laughed. “She is fussy about a tidy house, and the end result is we’ve never seen the house so spick and span.” With Diane’s approval in place, Ray became the host
and added another show to his long list of television achievements. In fact, even though he officially retired three yeas ago, Ray continues to be one of the hardest-working men in the Australian television industry. In the past three years he has averaged 90 plane trips a year for work, and even now in lockdown Ray has had three television shows on three different networks in a six-week period, including Channel 7 travel show Hello World, which he filmed last year, and a onehour documentary on VC winner Keith Payne produced for SBS with former ABC head of news Max Uechtritz. Ray admits he is a little surprised to be popping up all over our screens at this age – particularly in a comedy show – and in fact many of his friends. spotting the promo during the Shaun Micallef show, thought it was just another of Micallef’s spoofs. “I’d done some stuff with a guy named Dan Illich, who’s the producer of this, and then Chris Taylor from The Chaser, who is the writer.” Illich had put together live
A scene from At Home Alone Together, one of the many projects keeping Ray Martin busy.
satire featuring Ray and several other journalists last year in Sydney, which the veteran journalist described as “a lot of fun”. “I’d done some Chasers with Chris some years back and I did a number of comedy spots for SBS with (satirist) Mark Humphries,” Ray said, explaining he was no stranger to the genre. “They rang up and said we’ve got this new show coming and we think that you’d be absurd enough to be a good host for it. I liked the idea and someone at the ABC must have been smoking something because
they agreed.’’ So what’s next for Ray (other than writing a book on Fred Hollows and using his COVID-19 downside to sort his thousands of photos, fix up his deck and get through the list of jobs Diane has for him to do now he is finally at home)? One thing for sure is he obviously has no intention of really retiring. “No, no there is no stopping,” he said seriously. “Oddly enough, before you rang, I was just watching a documentary with David Attenborough, who turns 94 today – he’s become my role model. To keep doing what
he does at 94 – I’ve got 20 years to go. “Why would you want to retire when you are doing what I’m doing, a show like this or a documentary on Keith Payne etc, etc, as against going out and playing golf or bowls or going down to the leagues club? You’re kidding me – I couldn’t think of anything worse. “For sheer satisfaction, fun, enjoyment and for keeping enthusiastic, I can’t think of anything else. I wouldn’t have swapped being a journalist for anything in the world.”
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NEVER DULL: Dolph Baker has a laugh at one of Liberty Community Connect's Monday social outings before Covid-19 restrictions … he can't wait to get back.
No taking Liberty for granted today’s restrictions than those he faced as a child during the war. “We had an Anderson shelter in the garden and it became like a second home,” Dolph said. Many Anderson shelters – steel or iron panels formed into a semi-circle and dug into families’ gardens – are still intact today. “It was like anything else, it’s what you were used to and you did it because that was what everyone did …” At the earliest opportunity, 17¼, Dolph signed up as an army paratrooper, which he was
Alison Houston DOLPH Baker remembers clearly long hours in the little air-raid shelter at his home in London. Dolph, now 93 and calling Helensvale home, said Covid-19 restrictions reminded him of those days of not being able to get out, be with friends and do as you wanted. Wife Mary Anne said Dolph particularly missed his Monday social get-togethers through Nerang’s Liberty Community Connect, and was far less accepting of
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monkeys and caring for animals in his father’s pet business, to talking to the Queen (incidentally born the same year as him) during her tour of the Ronson lighter factory he worked in after the war. So, it’s perhaps not extraordinary that in 1952, when his girlfriend of the time emigrated to Australia, Dolph decided to follow her. It was a huge journey for a romance that faded, but Dolph did find a new love while working as a booking clerk on the railways, and married his first wife, Margaret. Several jobs followed,
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FAMILY TIES: Sharing special moments in life is one of the many ongoing benefits for seniors learning how to video-call and go online generally, particularly for those on their own. The Be Connected website helps seniors to gain the confidence to take advantage of the connections possible.
something many seniors adapt to more easily than desktop computers. She put a slide show of the grandchildren on the tablet, photos, as well as his favourite music, the New York Times crossword, thesaurus and dictionary apps, and taught him how to browse, email and then to video-call. “One thing we know is
seniors learn best with faceto-face, personal instruction, and while we (the Be Connected website) obviously can’t do that, we start with the assumption of little to no computer literacy and have lots of videos and tutorials, screen shots and visuals to make it very easy to follow, rather than big blocks of text,” Julie said. Be Connected is an
Australia-wide initiative that allows you to work at your own pace, with online learning resources and an online help desk, as well as a network of community partners (returning postCOVID-19 restrictions) to help develop digital skills and confidence. Go to beconnected. esafety.gov.au/ or call the helpline on 1300 795 897.
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time related to making video calls. Julie’s own parents live in the US, and with her father and stepmother having adopted video-calling and her mother not having done so, she could really see the difference it made, particularly in her mother not being able to see her grandchildren. While letters, emails and phone calls allow you to talk and exchange still images, Julie said it did not replace the immediacy of speaking to someone live, reading their facial expressions and seeing their body language. With people over 65 the least represented online, Julie said much of people’s reluctance related to fearbased messages regarding scams, being hacked, lack of confidence and fear of what might happen if they make a mistake. “As we get older, a lot of people feel they are too old to learn something new, which I would refute on every level … learning is a lifelong process,” she said. It was important, she said, to realise that while the barriers might be high, so too were the benefits of being online. “Think about what their interests are, what they are passionate about and what will make them feel more connected to the technology,” she said. She recalled teaching her father at 80 to use a tablet,
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Mark Digby IT IS normal for markets to act as they are in uncertain times. Of course, this has meant, in the short term at least, a significant decline in share values. These kinds of declines were also seen at the time of the GFC. It is important to remember with regard to investments in shares that in time, when the crisis is over and the world gets back to business, the markets will recover. In the short term, however, for many retirees the significant declines in financial markets have eroded the account balance of their superannuation pensions and annuity portfolio values. Option to reduce pension drawdowns An optional strategy to manage this phase is to reduce pension payments so as not to dig too deep into the value of their assets.
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GO WITH THE FLOW: The Federal Government has reduced the minimum annual pension payment required by 50 per cent.
Many pensioners are electing to take this strategy and the Government has made a significant change to the minimum income payment rates. To assist retirees, the Government has reduced the minimum annual payment required by 50 per cent for accountbased pensions and
annuities, allocated pensions and annuities, and marketlinked pensions and annuities in the 2019–20 and 2020–21 financial years. This means that eligible retirees with enough cash flow to ride out this period of market volatility will not be forced to sell shares, property or other assets in a
falling market simply to comply with the usual minimum drawdown amounts. By preserving more of their capital, they will have more money working for them to capture the market upswing when it inevitably occurs. Option to draw down
$10,000 from super This strategy may be appropriate for investors with cash-based assets already built into their portfolio. Any consideration to draw down on super to provide cash flow (also introduced by the Government) should be deeply considered in
– For more information, contact Mark Digby at Maher Digby Securities Pty Ltd – Financial Advisers – AFSL No. 230559 (see advert Page 3). Phone 07 5441 1266 or visit www.maherdigby.com.au, This article was prepared without taking into account any person’s particular objectives, financial situation or needs. It is not guaranteed as accurate or complete and should not be relied upon as such. Maher Digby Securities does not accept any responsibility for the opinions, comments, forwardlooking statements, and analysis contained in this document, all of which are intended to be of a general nature. Investors should, before acting on this information, consider the appropriateness of this information having regard to their personal objectives, financial situation or needs. We recommend consulting a financial adviser.
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