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In for a wild time Healesville Sanctuary’s Wine and Wildlife saw thousands of people from all around Melbourne pass through the sanctuary’s gates to enjoy a local tipple, and view all sorts of winged, scaly, and furry friends. Visitor Elly Robertson, from Kallista, enjoyed a glass of red and was treated to a serendipitous introduction to ‘Twiggy’ the tawny frogmouth by Healesville Sanctuary ranger Lottie Liddell. One of the Mail’s roaming photographers caught all the action from the Wine and Wildlife weekend and a gallery of all the festivites can be seen on page four. 169435 Picture: GREG CARRICK
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Her work involves finding ways in which to improve support services and includes transforming developing, and implementing changes to the purposes of policy development around aged care. “Looking at services for older people, I know very few people who want to get old, and the whole image of aging is so negative.” “We should embrace aging, we’re living older as a community and we should embrace that, we are healthier and living longer.“ With roles and qualifications span-
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The Queen’s Birthday Honours Awards have included one of the Yarra Valley’s very own. Each year for the Queen’s Birthday, Australia’s best and brightest are awarded for service to the country. Amongst those receiving awards was Sandra Hills, from Yering, who was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for her ‘services to aged care’. Sandra has spent a lifetime in aged care, and has been a strong advocate
for addressing and improving support services for the disadvantaged and elderly. Sandra said that she was surprised when she heard that she had received an OAM, and although she was ‘honoured’ to have been awarded one, she noted that there were many other people who should be recognised and said she was part of a wider ‘team’. “I’m just so overwhelmed, I didn’t really expect it and of course there are plenty of people who need to be recognised, and like many of these awards you accept it on behalf of those peo-
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