Inspired by Big Band Swing Could Your 0913542INS Home Do with a $15,000 Makeover?
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Before making a decision, please SA005/P consider the Product Disclosure Statement available from National Seniors Insurance. | HEALTH | LANDLORD | TRAVEL | CAR | LIFE | CARAVAN | BOAT | SA005_230x275_50something_press.indd 3 21/01/13 3:59 PM contents October | November 2013 20 In Sickness & In Health When one of you gets sick Epicurean your relationship deepens 33 Books & Movies and strengthens, writes Sandra Kimball. 35 Top Shelf A surf board shaped by big wave rider 23 Freedom to Play Workers Greg Noll takes centre stage have the right to request flexible in a new exhibition. hours. But your boss can say no, warns Kirinya Khamsone. 36 The Italian Way Bill Granger explores an endless 26 Piano Man Rosemary foodie fascination with all Desmond catches up with things Italian. unconventional music genius David Helfgott. 40 No Man’s Land Even the Russians don’t go East. Not 29 Agony Planner Struggling that it matters to our intrepid with super, pensions or property reporter Tom E Muller. investments? Finance expert, Colin Lewis, has the answers. Time Out 31 Pill Warning Consumers 43 Tech Spec Maintaing are being told to weigh up the your computer hardware. pros and cons of anticoagulants recently listed on the PBS. 46 Sport Shelley Hancox’s spring racing tips. First Up 48 Crossword 9 Letters 50 The Last Word 18 Still on Track Singer Renée Geyer 12 News talks drugs, earthquakes and living to 100 with Rosemary Desmond. 14 Executive Diary 16 Campaigns 26 36 40 38 38 Cover Renée Geyer settles into a groove. 50 SOMETHING October/November 2013 5 editor On the Letters page this issue National Seniors’ lobbying role? shares the charms of Southern Italy a couple of readers register An increase in the Commonwealth and a gorgeous ricotta cheesecake their dismay over the August/ Seniors Health Card income limits, on page 36. Finally, if home is September election survey results the first in 11 years (page 16), where your heart is, don’t despair. which identified the economy and is a result of that lobbying. On page 46, Shelley Hancox shares abolishing the carbon tax as top Are the over-50s asking for too her spring racing tips for a long, priorities. “What about future much? Should our focus be more lazy afternoon in front of the TV. generations? Are we really so intergenerational? Should 50 Politics or not, hopefully we’ve got self-centred?” one reader asks. something be a politics-free zone? you covered. Another says the group’s growing We’d love to hear your thoughts. Sarah Saunders political focus is a turn-off. In our For those of you who’d rather Email 50something@ defence, as the once-in-every-three- go to Siberia than talk politics, nationalseniors.com.au year election special, the August/ your wish is our command. On September magazine sought to put page 40, intrepid traveller Tom Publisher older Australians on the national Muller ventures into the bleak but National Seniors Australia agenda at a time when politicians fascinating Russian Far East. It A.B.N. 89 050 523 003 traditionally hand out sweeteners. is a place, he says, that even the ISSN 1835–5404 These letters are the basis for some Russians won’t visit. For something good debate. How much do you value a little more genteel, Bill Granger Editor Sarah Saunders s.saunders@ contributors nationalseniors.com.au Thomas E. Muller is Australia’s second most travelled person, according National Advertising Manager to the world travel rankings on www.MostTraveledPeople.com. Mark Smith The 74-year-old retired professor and National Seniors life member [email protected] now explores the far reaches of the Earth to encourage seniors to do the same. His adventures are featured on www.KnowYourEarth.net National Office Level 18 Sandra Kimball has worked in mental health for over 20 years as 215 Adelaide Street a therapist, writer and educator. Sandra runs couples retreats in Brisbane Q 4000 Northern New South Wales and is the author of the book Relationships in Our 50’s, 60’s and Beyond – How Yours Can Survive and Thrive. Phone: 07 3233 9191 Find her book at www.mylifechange.com.au Fax: 07 3211 9339 Shelley Hancox, principal of Hancox Bloodstock, has been racing and www.nationalseniors.com.au managing horses for 30 years. Her lifelong interest in thoroughbreds Editorial and Advertising has led her into the racing media as a journalist, broadcaster, tipster, The Publisher reserves the strapper, work and race rider, trainer, breeder, buyer, seller and, right to accept or reject any since 1988, as one of Australasia’s leading racehorse syndicators. editorial or advertising matter. David Burnett is an international art curator at the Queensland Art The Publisher assumes no Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art. Recent exhibitions he has worked responsibility for return of on include 21st Century: Art in the First Decade; Surrealism: The unsolicited manuscripts, art Poetry of Dreams; Paris and Matisse: Drawing Life; Portrait of Spain: or photographs. Information Masterpieces from the Prado; and California Design 1930 – 1965: was correct at time of going to Living in a Modern Way. press. No part of this magazine may be reproduced, reprinted Rosemary Desmond is a member of the National Seniors public or otherwise duplicated affairs team. Originally from New Zealand, Rosemary has lived without written permission of and worked in Australia for over 30 years, most of that time as a the Publisher. Opinions and journalist for Australian Associated Press in Sydney and in Brisbane. views expressed in articles and advertisements in 50 something Kirinya Khamsone is an associate at Brisbane firm CRH Law. do not necessarily reflect those She advises employers and employees on a wide range of issues of the Publisher. 50 something including contract drafting and interpretation, grievance is published six times a year and disciplinary procedures, termination and redundancy, by National Seniors Australia discrimination and compliance with industrial instruments. and is distributed to members See more at http://www.crhlaw.com.au/ throughout Australia. Printed by Horizon Media 6 50 SOMETHING October/November 2013 first up And each flower and herb on earth’s dark breast executive diary Rose from the dreams of its wintry rest. Percy Bysshe Shelley ‘The Sensitive Plant’ As the season of new life and green shoots is Similarly, I recognise the efforts of our upon us, so a fresh era of government commences. small band of staff who relentlessly made the most of the opportunity Congratulations to Prime Minister Tony Abbott in the election provided to advance the achieving the highest office in the land. interests of the over-50s. Michael O’Neill Coinciding with spring, all await the changes that a new At the forums I spoke about the various CEO National Seniors Australia government can be expected to provide.