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Puzzles April 2023 Answers

<p><span style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;">The Free OverSixty Newspaper is regularly with Crosswords, Sudokus, Word Finders and more for your entertainment and to keep that grey matter limbered up.</span></p> <p>So! Without further ado, here are the solutions to <a href="https://over60newspapers.azurewebsites.net/OverSixty_April_2023_Digital/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">all of the puzzles from the April 2023 issue</a> of the FREE OverSixty Newspaper. Enjoy!</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Crosswise Answers:</strong></p> <p><img src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/2023/04/Crosswise_solution_april2023.jpg" alt="" width="1280" height="1276" /></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Sudoko Answers:</strong></p> <p><strong><img src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/2023/04/Sudoku_solution_april2023.jpg" alt="" width="1280" height="1245" /></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Before and After Answer:</strong></p> <p>MOUTH [ PIECE ] MEAL</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Word Finder Answers:</strong></p> <p>We found all of these words below in this issue's Word Finder. Did you find any more? Let us know via <a href="mailto:newspaper@oversixty.com.au" target="_blank" rel="noopener">newspaper@oversixty.com.au</a></p> <ol> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">EIGHT</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">ERG</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">FOE</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">FOES</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">FOR</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">FORE</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">FORESIGHT</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">FORT</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">FORTH</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">FREIGHT</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">FRIES</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">FRIGHT</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">FRO</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">FROTH</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">GIRT</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">FIRTH</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">GRIEF</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">GROT</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">HIE</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">HIRE</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">HIRES</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">HIS</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">HOE</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">HOER</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">HOERS</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">HOES</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">HORSE</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">HOT</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">IRE</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">IRES</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">ORE</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">ORES</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">ORGIES</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">ORT</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">REF</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">RHO</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">RIG</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">RIGHT</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">RISE</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">ROE</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">ROES</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">ROT</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">ROTH</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">SERF</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">SIGH</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">SIGHT</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">SIR</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">SIRE</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">THIEF</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">THIS</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">THOR</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">THRO</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">THROE</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">THROES</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">TOE</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">TOES</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">TOR</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">TORE</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">TORES</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">TORI</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">TORIES</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">TORS</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">TORSI</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">TREF</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">TRIES</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">TRIG</li> </ol> <p> </p> <p><strong>Word Pyramid Answer:</strong></p> <p>For this puzzle you were given a number of clues. The first answer had two letters, the second three letters, the third four – and so on. Each answer consisted of the same letters as the previous one with the addition of one letter.</p> <p><strong>SOLUTION:<br /></strong><strong>French article (LE)<br /></strong><strong>Falsehood (LIE)<br /></strong><strong>Reside (LIVE)<br /></strong><strong>Large organ (LIVER)<br /></strong><strong>Splinter (SLIVER)</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Word Circles Answer:</strong></p> <p>We asked you to unscramble the letters in each circle to produce two words that are opposite in meaning to each other.</p> <p><strong>SOLUTION: EQUALITY, IMPARITY</strong></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>

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Puzzles Issue 2 2022 Answers

<p>Spring is in full swing, and while there are few things more satisfying than glimpses of sunshine and watching the flowers bloom, do NOT forget the satisfaction to be gained from a round of solid puzzles done well.</p> <p>To that end, Issue Number Two of the new OverSixty Newspaper is packed with tricky Crosswords, Sudokus, Word Finders and more for your entertainment and to keep that grey matter limbered up.</p> <p>So! Without further ado, here are the solutions to <a href="https://over60newspapers.azurewebsites.net/Over_Sixty_Winter_2022_Digital/30/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">all of the puzzles from Issue 2</a> of the FREE OverSixty Newspaper. Enjoy!</p> <p><strong>Mixed-Up Crossword Answers:</strong></p> <p><img src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/2022/10/O60_PuzzleAnswers_Spring2022_crossword.jpg" alt="" width="1280" height="1276" /></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Sudoko Answers:</strong></p> <p><strong><img src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/2022/10/O60_PuzzleAnswers_Spring2022_sudoku.jpg" alt="" width="1280" height="1278" /></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Rearrange Answer:</strong></p> <p>We asked you to rearrange these letters to form a single word: <strong>glycerine fit</strong></p> <p><strong style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;">SOLUTION: ELECTRIFYING</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Word Finder Answers:</strong></p> <p>We found all of these words below in this issue's Word Finder. Did you find any more? Let us know via <a href="mailto:newspaper@oversixty.com.au" target="_blank" rel="noopener">newspaper@oversixty.com.au</a></p> <ol> <li>ACNE</li> <li>ACTS</li> <li>ANEW</li> <li>BANE</li> <li>BANK</li> <li>CANE</li> <li>CITE</li> <li>ENACT</li> <li>ANACTS</li> <li>FACE</li> <li>FACET</li> <li>FACETS</li> <li>FACT</li> <li>FACTS</li> <li>FANE</li> <li>FITS</li> <li>GETS</li> <li>GUST</li> <li>KEGS</li> <li>KNEW</li> <li>NEGUS</li> <li>NETS</li> <li>PICA</li> <li>PICT</li> <li>PICTS</li> <li>PITS</li> <li>RUGS</li> <li>RUST</li> <li>RUSTIC</li> <li>STEW</li> <li>SUET</li> <li>SURGE</li> <li>URGE</li> <li>VICE</li> <li>WEAN</li> <li>WETS</li> </ol> <p> </p> <p><strong>Word Circles Answer:</strong></p> <p>We asked you to unscramble the letters in each circle to produce two words with similar meanings.</p> <p><strong>SOLUTION: BROCHURE, PAMPHLET</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Word Ladder Answer:</strong></p> <p>For this puzzle we asked you to turn OIL into GAS by altering a single letter at each of four steps, guided by the clues below.</p> <p><strong>SOLUTION:<br /></strong><strong>OIL<br />NIL (Nothing)<br />NIP (Pinch)<br />NAP (Doze)<br />GAP (Aperture)<br />GAS</strong></p>

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Solemnity and celebration: how political cartoonists have handled the death of a monarch, from Victoria to Elizabeth II

<p>It sounds very familiar – a well-respected monarch dies, and a radical, left-leaning, Antipodean cartoonist struggles to find the right tone to commemorate the event. </p> <p>He is torn between his distaste for what he sees as the archaic, pre-modern institution of monarchy, and the undoubted personal quality of the late incumbent. </p> <p>More used to poking fun at the great and good, or attacking governments for their weak-willed or wrong-headed policies, changing tone to reverence and respect is difficult. </p> <p>But in the end, he manages to strike a very good balance and produce a memorable cartoon.</p> <p>The well-respected monarch was George VI; the radical, left-leaning, Antipodean cartoonist was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Low_(cartoonist)">David Low</a>; and the year was 1952. With <a href="https://archive.cartoons.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&amp;id=LSE8008">From One Man to Another</a>, Low not only conveyed his own respects, man-to-man, but imagined also the British workman, his hat in his hand and sleeves rolled-up, casting a humble bunch of flowers towards a mighty tombstone labelled “The Gentlest of the Georges”. </p> <p>This was an expression of democratic – even socialist – sensibility, in an age when monarchy seemed, to many, to be increasingly out-of-step with the advance of modernity and the inexorable march of post-war history.</p> <p>Low was compelled to look back, not forward, conscious he had an historic role to fulfil in commemorating the passing of the king who had embodied so much of the stolid, British pluck and humility during the second world war. </p> <p>He reflected <a href="https://archive.org/details/lowsautobiograph017633mbp/page/n225/mode/2up">in his 1956 autobiography</a> that he hated the old-fashioned, “The Nation Mourns”-style of Victorian cartoon, but it was to that set of images and traditions that he turned.</p> <h2>A long lineage</h2> <p>Cartoonists have had to do something similar in 2022, with the death of Queen Elizabeth II. </p> <p>In the United Kingdom, the likes of <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/peter-brookes-times-cartoon-september-9-2022-vzfhf606t">Peter Brookes</a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2022/sep/08/ben-jennings-on-the-death-of-the-queen-cartoon">Ben Jennings</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Adamstoon1/status/1567968191934271489">Christian Adams</a> have all been conscious of the need for solemnity, as well as celebration.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="cy"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/QueenElizabeth?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#QueenElizabeth</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/QueenElizabethII?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#QueenElizabethII</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/queen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#queen</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Queen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Queen</a> Elizabeth II <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Rest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Rest</a> In Peace <a href="https://twitter.com/EveningStandard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EveningStandard</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cartoon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cartoon</a> <a href="https://t.co/bzEcwRlaEb">pic.twitter.com/bzEcwRlaEb</a></p> <p>— Christian Adams (@Adamstoon1) <a href="https://twitter.com/Adamstoon1/status/1567968191934271489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2022</a></p></blockquote> <p>Across the world, cartoonists have had to struggle with much the same thing, and some favoured themes are already apparent: <a href="https://www.electriccitymagazine.ca/touching-cartoon-salute-depicting-the-queen-reuniting-with-prince-philip-and-paddington-bear/">Elizabeth reunited</a> with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, or troops of <a href="https://twitter.com/BennettCartoons/status/1568017878225682433">sad corgis</a>; the Union Flag with an Elizabeth II-shaped hole at the centre; or a tube train with a sole occupant heading into a blaze of light at the end of the tunnel.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="cy">9/9/2022- Queen Elizabeth II <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Elizabeth?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Elizabeth</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ElizabethII?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ElizabethII</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/QueenElizabeth?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#QueenElizabeth</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RestInPeace?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RestInPeace</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RestInPeaceQueenElizabeth?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RestInPeaceQueenElizabeth</a> <a href="https://t.co/evcXLHfcgm">https://t.co/evcXLHfcgm</a> <a href="https://t.co/wg7B9k7WSW">pic.twitter.com/wg7B9k7WSW</a></p> <p>— Clay Bennett (@BennettCartoons) <a href="https://twitter.com/BennettCartoons/status/1568017878225682433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2022</a></p></blockquote> <p>All of these images speak to the style and the visual language of today, but also share a lineage several centuries old. </p> <h2>A bereaved widow, again</h2> <p>Nobody would have thought to depict Queen Victoria’s death in 1901 with her travelling to heaven by tube, although the Underground seems emblematic of her age (London’s first underground railway was <a href="https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/about-tfl/culture-and-heritage/londons-transport-a-history/london-underground/a-brief-history-of-the-underground">opened in January 1863</a>, 26 years into Victoria’s reign). </p> <p>There were no sad corgis (that breed only became associated with the Royal Family <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-12/queen-elizabeth-ii-loved-corgi-dogs-throughout-her-life/101428106">from the 1930s</a>), but a downcast British Lion was imagined by Francis Carruthers Gould in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun_(magazine)">Fun</a>.</p> <p>The theme of a bereaved widow finally reunited with her spouse is clearly a parallel (Albert, the Prince Consort had died in 1861). So too is the very idea that a cartoonist should commemorate the event – something unthinkable when William IV died in 1837, or so much so when George IV died in 1830 that a well-known cartoonist <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1882-1209-677">never published his draft sketch</a>.</p> <p>The sheer immensity of the loss of Victoria called for some pretty special treatment, at a time when cartooning was a lot more formal and respectable than it is today. </p> <p>It preoccupied several days’ work for Linley Sambourne, chief cartoonist of London’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_(magazine)">Punch</a> (for a while, a magazine that was almost as much a British institution as the monarchy).</p> <p>Requiescat was huge: a double-page spread in sombre black-and-white, depicting a gaggle of goddesses in mourning for their lost monarch. </p> <p>Allegorical female figures representing countries were all the rage in Victorian and Edwardian cartooning (something David Low also hated and thought was “moth-eaten” by the time he was at his peak). </p> <p>England, Scotland, Wales, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and India were all included by Sambourne. </p> <p>Just one goddess was enough for his junior colleague, Bernard Partridge, who imagined <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clio">Clio</a> – History herself – adding the name of Victoria to the roll of great monarchs.</p> <p>It was the same when Victoria’s son and heir, Edward VII, died in May, 1910. </p> <p>Bernard Partridge went with just two figures, rather than a whole host, imagining a weeping Britannia seated before the empty Coronation Chair, an angel of peace reaching out to touch her shoulder.</p> <p>This was designed to express “an empire’s grief” in terms even more explicit than Sambourne had done with Victoria, but the imagery was very British; even domestic. </p> <p>Minus the caption, it could almost be recycled in 2022 - crucially, the monarch does not actually appear. So too, Partridge’s offering in January 1936, when George V died (apparently by the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/29/king-george-v-was-murdered-not-euthanised">hand of his doctor</a>).</p> <p>Britannia tolling a bell from a medieval bell-tower, with a fog-laden London skyline in the background. Clear the fog, add a Gherkin and a Shard, and the effect would be much the same.</p> <p>While David Low struggled against the Victorian style of memorial cartoon, it is still very much with us. As so often, cartoons can encapsulate a whole host of feelings that mere words can’t express.</p> <p><em>Image credits: Twitter @toonsbystellina</em></p> <p><em>This article originally appeared on <a href="https://theconversation.com/solemnity-and-celebration-how-political-cartoonists-have-handled-the-death-of-a-monarch-from-victoria-to-elizabeth-ii-190338" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Conversation</a>. </em></p>

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“The world is crying”: Newspapers come together to mourn QEII

<p dir="ltr">Around the world, the front pages of Friday’s newspapers have become a tribute to Queen Elizabeth II following her shock passing, with one outlet declaring the “world is crying” in the wake of the news.</p> <p><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2c9f53b-7fff-3a3d-5e03-b30523feb120"></span></p> <p dir="ltr">Ranging from vintage shots from her childhood to stately portraits of the Queen wearing her crown or one of her trademark hats, publications were united in mourning the long-reigning monarch.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Some beautiful front pages - none better than the Financial Times <a href="https://t.co/rijclWLQxp">pic.twitter.com/rijclWLQxp</a></p> <p>— Nick Bryant (@NickBryantNY) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickBryantNY/status/1567994430141136899?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2022</a></p></blockquote> <p dir="ltr">In Germany, popular tabloid <em>Bild </em>declared that “the world is crying for the Queen”, while Dutch broadsheet <em>De Telegraaf </em>called the royal “the Queen in the heart of the world”.</p> <p dir="ltr">Daily Parisian newspaper <em>Liberation</em>, from French playwright Jean-Paul Sartre, made a play on words with the headline ‘La peine d’Angleterre’ (the pain of England), swapping ‘reine’ (queen) for ‘peine’ (pain). </p> <p dir="ltr">The French outlet even included a photo of the monarch on the final page, showing the Queen wearing a white fur cloak facing away.</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href="https://o60.me/CimdrL" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queen Elizabeth II died peacefully </a>at her Balmoral estate on Thursday, surrounded by family.</p> <p dir="ltr">“The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow,” a Buckingham Palace spokesperson said.</p> <p dir="ltr">Her passing came hours after the Palace issued a statement revealing that doctors were “concerned” for health, prompting family members to rush to Scotland to be with her.</p> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-aae1bd19-7fff-0e0e-7fb9-f897a0cce125"></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Images: Twitter, The Daily Mail</em></p>

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Woman buys ad in newspaper to call out cheating partner

<p dir="ltr">A furious woman who was cheated on by her partner has taken out a whole page of the local newspaper to call him out. </p> <p dir="ltr">Jenny from Queensland purchased one page from the Mackay and Whitsunday Life paper with her cheating partner’s credit card page. </p> <p dir="ltr">“Dear Steve, I hope you’re happy with her,” the message on page 4 read. </p> <p dir="ltr">“Now the whole town will know what a filthy cheater you are. From Jenny.</p> <p dir="ltr">“PS. I bought this ad using your credit card.”</p> <p dir="ltr">The newspaper said they have received several messages from locals asking who Steve and Jenny are but they have kept quiet about it.</p> <p dir="ltr">“We do NOT know who Steve is, but apparently he’s been very very bad,” the newspaper said.</p> <p dir="ltr">“We won’t be revealing any details about Jenny.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Despite writing that she used Steve’s credit card for the ad, the newspaper confirmed they have not yet charged the card. </p> <p dir="ltr">“We have not charged the credit card in question.”</p> <p dir="ltr">The ad made its way to social media with many commending Jenny for calling out her cheating partner. </p> <p dir="ltr">“Jenny sounds like someone I want to be friends with,” someone wrote. </p> <p dir="ltr">“Not all heroines wear capes. Jenny is my new favourite person,” another commented.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Sucks to be Steve,” another wrote. </p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Image: Facebook</em></p>

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Puzzles Winter 2022 Answers

<p>You know what they say! A puzzle a day keeps the brain fog away ... Actually they don't say that. But they should, and perhaps now they will because it's totally true.</p> <p>To that end, we've crammed the new OverSixty Newspaper with Crosswords, Sudokus, Word Finders and more for your entertainment and to keep that grey matter limbered up.</p> <p>So! Without further ado, here are the solutions to <a href="https://over60newspapers.azurewebsites.net/Over_Sixty_Winter_2022_Digital/30/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">all of the puzzles from the Winter 2022 issue</a> of the FREE OverSixty Newspaper. Enjoy!</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Mixed Up Answers:</strong></p> <p><img src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/2022/06/O60_PuzzleAnswers_Winter2022_crossword.jpg" alt="" width="1280" height="1276" /></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Sudoko Answers:</strong></p> <p><strong><img src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/2022/06/O60_PuzzleAnswers_Winter2022_sudoku.jpg" alt="" width="1280" height="1278" /></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Rearrange Answer:</strong></p> <p>We asked you to rearrange these letters to form a single word: <strong>tuna hair ratio</strong></p> <p><strong style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;">SOLUTION: AUTHORITARIAN</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Word Finder Answers:</strong></p> <p>We found all of these words below in this issue's Word Finder. Did you find any more? Let us know via <a href="mailto:newspaper@oversixty.com.au" target="_blank" rel="noopener">newspaper@oversixty.com.au</a></p> <ol> <li>ACRES</li> <li>AROSE</li> <li>CARES</li> <li>CAROL</li> <li>CARTING</li> <li>CARTON</li> <li>CATION</li> <li>CATLING</li> <li>CRAGS</li> <li>CRATING</li> <li>CREATING</li> <li>CREATION </li> <li>CURES </li> <li>EATING</li> <li>FLOAT</li> <li>FLOATING </li> <li>FLOGS</li> <li>FLORA</li> <li>FLORAE</li> <li>FLORAS</li> <li>FROGS</li> <li>GATOR</li> <li>GOITRE</li> <li>GORES</li> <li>HURTING</li> <li>HURTLING</li> <li>IGNORE</li> <li>IGNORES </li> <li>INGOT </li> <li>IOTAS </li> <li>LIGATURE</li> <li>LINGO</li> <li>LINGS </li> <li>LITRE</li> <li>LITRES</li> <li>LOACH</li> <li>LONGS </li> <li>LORES</li> <li>LOSER</li> <li>NITRO</li> <li>OLIGARCH</li> <li>RACES</li> <li>RATING</li> <li>RATINGS</li> <li>RATION</li> </ol> <p> </p> <p><strong>Word Circles Answer:</strong></p> <p>We asked you to unscramble the letters in each circle to produce two words that are opposite in meaning to each other.</p> <p><strong>SOLUTION: ASSEMBLE, DISPERSE</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Word Pyramid Answer:</strong></p> <p>For this puzzle you were given a number of clues. The first answer had two letters, the second three letters, the third four – and so on. Each answer consisted of the same letters as the previous one with the addition of one letter.</p> <p><strong>SOLUTION:<br /></strong><strong>Concerning (RE)<br /></strong><strong>Rage (IRE)<br /></strong><strong>Father (SIRE)<br /></strong><strong>Steeple (SPIRE)<br /></strong><strong>Desire eagerly (ASPIRE)</strong></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>

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Giving it away for free - why the performing arts risks making the same mistake newspapers did

<p>There’s a long-running adage about working for free in the performing arts. “The problem with working for exposure,” it goes, “is you can die from exposure”.</p> <p>Only partly a joke, the saying is also a sober warning to performers. Work in the cultural industries is precarious, and performers rely on a combination of short-term gigs, casual contracts, and “day jobs” to make ends meet.</p> <p>Unpaid work is a common feature of the market, and performers often find themselves working without remuneration in order to make connections or add a line to their resume.</p> <p>COVID-19 has exposed the <a href="https://theconversation.com/the-government-says-artists-should-be-able-to-access-jobkeeper-payments-its-not-that-simple-138530">true insecurity of the cultural workforce</a>, and now we’re seeing the double-edged sword of “exposure” also extending to arts organisations.</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CAxj0LKDYWX/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CAxj0LKDYWX/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">A post shared by National Theatre (@nationaltheatre)</a> on May 29, 2020 at 7:01am PDT</p> </div> </blockquote> <p><strong>All the web’s a stage</strong></p> <p>Since March 2020, there has been a <a href="https://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/on-with-the-show/">worldwide influx</a> of digital arts content. Forced to shutter live seasons, performing arts organisations collectively jumped on the digital bandwagon. From live-streaming events to archival production footage, audiences are inundated with virtual performance events.</p> <p>In most cases, this content has been offered for free. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Opera Australia, New York’s The Metropolitan Opera, and the UK’s National Theatre, among many others, have streamed live or prerecorded performances on digital platforms for no charge.</p> <p>Companies without access to archival footage have posted free offerings of different kinds. The Melbourne Theatre Company, for example, has posted behind-the-scenes features, play readings, and artist interviews.</p> <p>At the beginning of the shutdown, digital platforms were a critical tool for audience engagement. Arts organisations could communicate the importance of the arts as a source of comfort and inspiration during a time of crisis, while simultaneously reaching <a href="https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/tens-of-millions-watching-streamed-theatre-shows-worldwide">a far wider audience</a> than their physical spaces could ever hold.</p> <p>But it’s increasingly clear the <a href="https://www.theage.com.au/culture/theatre/let-us-open-our-theatres-companies-ask-government-20200602-p54ysp.html">return to live performance</a> may be a matter of months or even years.</p> <p>For starters, safety is a major concern. A number of genres, including opera and musical theatre, pose particular risks to both performers and audience members due to <a href="https://theconversation.com/a-song-in-your-heart-shouldnt-lead-to-an-infection-in-your-lungs-reasons-to-get-with-online-choirs-137705">singers’ potential role as super-spreaders</a>. The risks posed by, and to, dancers, instrumentalists, and spoken theatre artists remains uncertain.</p> <p>From a business perspective, financial viability is also of grave concern. Under social distancing guidelines, performing arts venues will be limited <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/may/29/theatre-post-lockdown-spaced-seating-berliner-ensemble-germany">to a fraction </a> of their standard audience capacity. In a sector reliant on box office sales to maintain the bottom line, theatres may find it cheaper to simply <a href="https://www.gramilano.com/2020/05/la-scala-would-lose-e50000-a-day-if-it-reopened/">stay closed</a>.</p> <p><strong>A problematic precedent</strong></p> <p>In this climate, digital content may be the only means for sustaining the sector in the medium-term. But a problematic precedent has been set.</p> <p>In the initial panic of moving their artistic offerings online, companies have undervalued their own product. In this regard, we can see clear parallels with the newspaper industry’s shift to online platforms over the last decade. After initially offering online news for free, the industry is still struggling to shift consumer expectations, <a href="https://theconversation.com/digital-only-local-newspapers-will-struggle-to-serve-the-communities-that-need-them-most-139649">with major repercussions</a> for both journalists and papers.</p> <p>To survive, arts organisations must establish a monetised business strategy for online performances and presentations. But this shift must be navigated carefully, particularly by companies that began with an open-access model and now risk alienating audience members.</p> <p>Several arts organisations have already experimented with different ways of monetising digital content. In the UK, the Old Vic theatre is live-streaming a socially distanced version of <a href="https://www.oldvictheatre.com/whats-on/2020/lungs-in-camera">Lungs</a> for £10-65 (A$18-120) per “ticket”. In Australia, the <a href="https://melbournedigitalconcerthall.com/">Melbourne Digital Concert Hall</a> is producing virtual concerts for a paid audience, with all ticket proceeds going to the performers.</p> <p>Many companies, like New Zealand’s <a href="https://www.tempo.co.nz/">Tempo Dance Festival</a>, are making shows available online but asking for donations. <a href="https://www.redlineproductions.com.au/">Red Line Productions</a>’ online readings have featured marquee names like Alec Baldwin and Rose Byrne, and also asked for donations. Based out of New York, <a href="https://marathon2020.bangonacan.org/">Bang on a Can</a>’s June marathon promises six hours of streamed live music with a request to “consider” purchasing a ticket or paying extra to commission a new piece. But voluntary contributions can’t sustain the operating costs of these companies long term.</p> <p>Depending on how various models develop, there will be unavoidable impacts on performers. At present, there are no standardised rates for artist compensation for digital work, whether participating in a prerecorded performance or generating new content for a company to post online.</p> <p>We’ve already seen how artists’ passion for their craft can be exploited for a cause.</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CAvr4afIE8T/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CAvr4afIE8T/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">A post shared by National Theatre (@nationaltheatre)</a> on May 28, 2020 at 1:33pm PDT</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>The Metropolitan Opera cancelled contracts for its principal singers and union orchestra and chorus in March 2020, only to have them perform for free as part of the company’s <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/arts/music/met-opera-at-home-gala.html">digital fundraising gala a month later</a>. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra similarly stood down its instrumentalists in April 2020 but has since asked them to participate in <a href="https://www.theage.com.au/culture/music/musicians-say-breakdown-with-mso-management-irreparable-20200529-p54xqi.html">social media marketing campaigns without pay</a>.</p> <p><strong>Bottom line</strong></p> <p>While involvement in promotional activities is standard practice for contracted artists, it’s impossible to ignore the problematic power dynamic now at play. Companies are asking unemployed artists to provide free labour to support organisations that may or may not employ them in the future. And because performers love what they do and want to support the struggling sector, they agree.</p> <p>While there are <a href="https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/arts-fund-the-show-must-go-on/news-story/9e6e2fa745bc0ffc82f00e510d8c29b1">reports</a> the government is working on an arts rescue package, the message being sent is one the sector has heard time and again. The arts are important, and artists should be compensated … but only when it’s financially convenient.</p> <p>Arts organisations cannot survive from digital exposure and goodwill alone. They must develop new business models for online platforms. But companies must also tread carefully to ensure they don’t ultimately undermine the value of the arts – or their artists.</p> <p><em>Written by Caitlin Vincent. Republished with permission of </em><a href="https://theconversation.com/giving-it-away-for-free-why-the-performing-arts-risks-making-the-same-mistake-newspapers-did-139671"><em>The Conversation.</em></a></p>

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Understanding the financial pages

<p>Looking at the financial pages of the daily newspaper may seem like a bewildering onslaught of information with reams of market statistics and measurements. This can make the investment world seem quite complex and intimidating, but when you break it down and try to grasp each of the component parts, it is well within the capacity of most lay people to understand.</p> <p>Here are a few tips that may help to get you started:<strong><br />Firstly, a word of warning</strong><br />Beware of the temptation to start reading the financial pages in the same way you would read the form guide for horse racing!</p> <p>It is easy to get caught up in habit of tracking daily movements of particular share values, but this can distract you from the taking the broad, long term view that is so essential to successful investing. In short, don’t be tempted to try and ‘pick winners’.</p> <p><strong>Understanding the ASX table</strong><br />The financial section of the newspaper will normally show the full list of companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Next to each company will be a range of figures, usually beginning with the price of the share for that company at the end of the previous day’s trading. Some publications will also show a three letter ‘ASX code’ used to identify the company.</p> <p>Other measurements shown on this table include:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Weekly volume</strong> – The total number of shares of a company that were bought and sold within the last week.</li> <li><strong>Price movements</strong> – This may be shown as the price change since the previous day’s closing price, or it may be shown as a change over the previous week and some financial tables will even show the change over the last 12 months.</li> <li><strong>Dividend yield percentage</strong> – This figure is sometimes also shown and is the amount a company pays out in dividends each year as a percentage of the current share price. For example, if a particular share has a value of $100 and has paid a dividend of $5 then its dividend yield is 5% ($5 divided by $100).</li> </ul> <p><strong>Market indices</strong> <br />While the ASX table breaks down the performance of each company separately, you can also look at the collective performance of the market as a whole via the ‘All Ordinaries Index’. This tracks the movement of the total value of all shares on the exchange and the change over the last week and month may also be shown.</p> <p>Apart from the All Ordinaries Index, there are also a range of other sub-indices which indicate the performance of different segments of the market. The ASX 200, for example, is an index that tracks the change in collective value of the largest 200 public companies.</p> <p>Some indices focus on specific industrial segments. The S&amp;P ASX200 Energy Index, for example, measures the largest 200 energy companies. There are indices for and range of other sectors, such as health care, industry, finance, and metals and mining.</p> <p><strong>International markets</strong><br />Financial pages will also usually show various indices for major stock markets in other countries, such as the Dow Jones index in the USA, the FTSE in the UK and the Hang Seng in China.</p> <p><strong>Commodity prices</strong><br />The prices and price changes of key commodities are also a feature of many financial pages. Oil and gold are two such commodities that will usually be shown because of their importance as indicators of the general direction of the world economy and of market sentiment.</p> <p><strong>Exchange rates</strong><br />These are another important indicator of economic conditions and the state of the economies of different countries relative to each other. The financial pages will usually show the daily movement of the Australian Dollar against major world currencies, such as the US Dollar, the Euro and the Yen.</p> <p>There can be many factors within each country’s domestic economy which influence the movements in exchange rates. These can include interest rates, inflation, political stability, government debt and terms of trade.</p> <p><strong>Making sense of it all</strong><br />It would obviously take quite some time if you were to review and analyse all the items being reported and measured on the daily financial pages. Even if you do have the time to do that, it takes a considerable amount of skill and experience to interpret what different movements mean.</p> <p>Often the day to day movements in things like share prices and exchange rates are the result of transient factors and it is only a consistent analysis over a long period of time that can start to make a coherent interpretation.</p> <p>While it can be interesting to follow the fluctuating fortunes of particular shares, or the daily machinations of indices, commodities and exchange rates, it helps to have a financial adviser on your side to look at the bigger, long term picture.</p> <p>They will have access to expert research resources that constantly analyse markets at home and abroad and can position you to grow wealth without the need to personally keep track of day to day changes.</p> <p>Republished with permission of <a href="https://www.wyza.com.au/articles/money/financial-planning/understanding-the-financial-pages.aspx">Wyza.com.au.</a></p>

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Nine slams newspaper over “shameful” reports on Erin Molan and Sonia Kruger

<p><span>Nine has slammed <em>The Sunday Telegraph </em>over the publication’s “sustained attack” on the network’s female presenters.</span></p> <p><span>The defence of Nine stars came after the Sunday tabloid published an article claiming that <a href="https://tvblackbox.com.au/page/2019/10/28/nine-defends-female-presenters-after-shameful-attack-from-sunday-telegraph">a reshuffle at the network</a> would see Georgie Gardner demoted into the <em>Today Extra </em>hosting role, and Sonia Kruger facing the axe. </span></p> <p><span>Another article suggested that sports presenter Erin Molan has been “sidelined” by a “boys club” at the network amid an alleged feud with Andrew Johns. An online version of the article was later updated to inform that Molan had taken time off work for surgery on a broken shoulder.</span></p> <p><span>A Nine spokesperson has denied the reports, saying “all of the talk is made up”.</span></p> <p><span>“The sustained attack by <em>The Sunday Telegraph</em> on the female presenters of Nine is aimed to damage the standing of some of Australia’s most talented women in the media,” the spokesperson told <em><a href="https://thenewdaily.com.au/entertainment/tv/2019/10/28/nine-slams-news-ltd/">The New Daily</a>.</em></span></p> <p><span>“Working mums Georgie Gardner, Erin Molan, Sonia Kruger and Deborah Knight are just some of the Nine women who are performing great roles across the business, yet have been targeted ina  shameful onslaught of stories.”</span></p> <p><span>This is the second time this year that Nine clashed with a News Corp tabloid. In February, Nine news and current affairs director Darren Wick criticised a <em>Daily Telegraph </em>report on Georgie Gardner as “one of the most <a href="https://www.oversixty.com.au/news/news/the-heartwarming-moment-georgie-gardner-was-moved-to-tears-on-today-show/">deliberate acts of bullying</a> I’ve ever seen”.</span></p> <p>In response to the tabloid’s claims that Gardner was described by audience focus groups as “ice maiden” and “smiling assassin”, Wick said, “Nine’s position is that this is an outrageous, false, reckless and defamatory attack on Georgie Gardner and the <em>Today</em> show. The claim by the <em>Daily Telegraph</em> reporter that Nine has conducted focus groups this year is wrong.”</p>

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Why your newspaper today has blacked-out stories on the cover

<p>Media companies from all over Australia are uniting in a surprising front to fight for press freedoms and the public’s right to know what’s happening in Australia.</p> <p>The<span> </span><a rel="noopener" href="https://www.righttoknow.org.au/" target="_blank">Right To Know</a><span> </span>coalition of more than a dozen of the nation’s top media companies and industry organisations are campaigning for change to six critical areas of law that allow a veil of secrecy over matters that are important to all Australians.</p> <p>Some of the media companies taking a stand for press freedom are<span> </span>NewsCorp,<span> </span>ABC<span> </span>and<span> </span>The Guardian. This is due to incidents of the government raiding journalists at News Corp and the ABC.</p> <p>NewsCorp<span> </span>journalist Annika Smethurst, who now faces possible criminal charges, reported on the government considering using new powers to spy on everyday Australians. There was also an unrelated raid at the<span> </span>ABC<span> </span>headquarters after a report detailed incidents of Australian special forces troops killing men and children in Afghanistan.</p> <p>New research from<span> </span><a rel="noopener" href="https://www.news.com.au/national/when-government-keeps-the-truth-from-you-what-are-they-covering-up/news-story/b7e8d17423bd679156c79e74d203d291" target="_blank">NewsCorp</a><span> </span>has detailed that 87 per cent of Australians value a free and transparent democracy where the public is kept informed, but only 37 per cent believe that this is happening in Australia today.</p> <p>It doesn’t help that the government withholds information related to aged care abuse as well as also withholding information and the terms of land sales to foreign companies. These are issues that Australians believe they have a right to know about.</p> <p>“It’s unprecedented to see the front page of every single newspaper pointing out the same issue we are challenged with having to deal with, but this is serious. It’s serious for all Australians, not just for media, but it’s our job to actually serve our communities,” News Corp Australasia executive chairman Michael Miller said.</p> <p>“When you see every media organisation lining up together to make this point, we need to see some action.”</p> <p>Nine Entertainment’s CEO Hugh Marks has pointed out that the issue is not just about raids on media organisations.</p> <p>“This is much bigger than the media. It’s about defending the basic right of every Australian to be properly informed about the important decisions the government is making in their name,” he said.</p> <p>ABC’s Managing Director David Anderson agrees.</p> <p>“Australia is at risk of becoming the world’s most secretive democracy,” he said.</p> <p>“We’ve seen the public’s right to know slowly erode over the past two decades, with the introduction of laws that make it more difficult for people to speak up when they see wrongdoing and for journalists to report these stories.”</p> <p>The six Australia’s<span> </span><a rel="noopener" href="https://www.righttoknow.org.au/blog" target="_blank">Right To Know</a><span> </span>reforms being sought are:</p> <ul> <li>the right to contest any kind of search warrant on journalists or news organisations before the warrant is issued;</li> <li>law change to ensure public sector whistleblowers are adequately protected;</li> <li>a new regime that limits which documents can be marked ‘secret’;</li> <li>review of Freedom of Information laws</li> <li>that journalists be exempt from national security laws enacted over the past seven years that currently can put them in jail for doing their job; and</li> <li>reform to defamation laws.</li> </ul>

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Elite Sydney school issues “extraordinary” apology to student in newspaper

<p>An elite Sydney private school has issued a public apology to a student who was sexually abused by one of its teachers.</p> <p>Sydney Grammar School took out an advertisement on page three of the<span> </span><em>Sydney Morning Herald</em><span> </span>on Saturday, saying it was “deeply sorry” and to apologise “unreservedly” to the former student and his family.</p> <p>The teacher was found guilty in May 2017 for multiple counts of sexual intercourse with a student over a period of three months in 2016 when she was employed at Sydney Grammar School.</p> <p>She was sentenced to seven months behind bars in early 2018 and has since been released from custody.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet tw-align-center" data-lang="en-gb"> <p dir="ltr">What an extraordinary apology on page 3 of the ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/smh?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SMH</a>⁩ <a href="https://t.co/EwKZeGlDbg">pic.twitter.com/EwKZeGlDbg</a></p> — Kate McClymont (@Kate_McClymont) <a href="https://twitter.com/Kate_McClymont/status/1177712880193400832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">27 September 2019</a></blockquote> <p>In its apology, the school said that in reporting the abuse he dealt with, the student had shown “enormous bravery” and that it was grateful he had plucked up the courage in “impossible circumstances” to make sure other students remain safe.</p> <p>“The abuse of male students by female teachers is just as serious, and damaging, as the abuse of female students by male teachers,” it read.</p> <p>“The abuse … had and continues to have a profoundly harmful impact on the student.”</p> <p>The school revealed that they had reviewed their policies and procedures after the crime took place as they failed to recognise the abuse at the time.</p> <p>For legal reasons, the student’s identity remains undisclosed.</p> <p>Many have applauded the school for the move, saying it’s the perfect way to apologise for their mistakes.</p> <p>“This should become the benchmark for apologies,” said Kristin Ferguson, Deputy Chair and the ABC on Twitter.</p> <p>“A very effective example of acknowledging failings, articulating in detail why the victim was so brave &amp; the courageous steps he took, then detailing the changes they have made. I hope it serves as a future example for others.”</p>

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Newspaper's awkward Julia Roberts typo goes viral

<p>A local newspaper has had its chance in the spotlight after making an unfortunate typo in the headline of a Julia Roberts story.</p> <p>The <em>Post-Journal</em> of Jamestown, New York, paid tribute to the Hollywood actress and her phenomenal career spanning over 30 years, but while their intentions were pure, the headline was what caught people’s attention the most.</p> <p>It read: “Julia Roberts Finds Life And Her Holes Get Better With Age.”</p> <p>While it meant to say her “Roles Get Better W<span>ith Age”, it was too late to retract the mistake, as the article on the 51-year-old had been published and soon, was in the hands of readers around the city.</span></p> <p>It didn’t take long for the blunder to make its way around the world as users took to Twitter to share photos of the printing error.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en-gb"> <p dir="ltr">Headline of the day <br /><br />Julia Roberts Finds Life And Her Holes Get Better With Age <a href="https://t.co/85oU83ijgi">pic.twitter.com/85oU83ijgi</a></p> — raf taylor (@truthis24fps) <a href="https://twitter.com/truthis24fps/status/1072126786253791232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">10 December 2018</a></blockquote> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en-gb"> <p dir="ltr">I feel this title about Julia Roberts and Holes perhaps needs a little finessing <a href="https://t.co/z2o7EmJKbk">pic.twitter.com/z2o7EmJKbk</a></p> — Jennifer Gunter (@DrJenGunter) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrJenGunter/status/1072268067181289472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">10 December 2018</a></blockquote> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en-gb"> <p dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/TheEllenShow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheEllenShow</a> can’t believe this headline in our local paper... Julia Roberts will be glad to know her holes are getting better with age😂😂 <a href="https://t.co/gvZkOsBjyN">pic.twitter.com/gvZkOsBjyN</a></p> — elizabeth (@eadavisus) <a href="https://twitter.com/eadavisus/status/1071797333497647104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">9 December 2018</a></blockquote> <p>In the story, the Oscar winner spoke about her age and how her life experiences reflect the roles she chooses to play.</p> <p>“You know, I’m happy and I have fun at home, so it would take a lot for someone to say: ‘Look, you can play this part where you’re happy and have fun.’ Well, I just do that at home,” she said.</p> <p>Despite starring in mega hit rom-coms in the past, back in October, Julia said she was done playing the damsel in distress as she cannot convince the audience that she’s a naïve character.</p> <p>“There came a point in my career where people thought I had turned on romantic comedies, which I love them, I love to be in them, I love to watch them,” she told <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.etonline.com/" target="_blank"><em>Entertainment Tonight</em></a>.</p> <p>“But sometimes, they just don’t work at a certain point of life experience.”</p>

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Sam Armytage slams newspaper that criticised her mammogram advice

<p>Samantha Armytage has slammed The Age for publishing what she describes as “one of the most foolish opinion pieces (she has) ever encountered”.</p> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.smh.com.au/national/samantha-armytage-s-advice-on-mammograms-was-misguided-20180223-p4z1h9.html">The column</a></span></strong>, authored by a doctor, was written in response to Sam’s “misguided” advice that women at the age of 40 should be thinking about having a mammogram.</p> <p>The Sunrise host recently underwent a mammogram for a segment on Channel Seven's breakfast show.</p> <p>In the segment, she revealed she was called back for further testing following her initial screening, an experience she described as “very scary”.</p> <p> “Immediately I thought the worst, as you tend to do. I had to do two more mammograms and an ultrasound... it was a very scary day. The test took five hours. Thankfully, I was given the all-clear,” Sam recalled.</p> <p>Sam then resolves to have a mammogram every year, adding: “The number one thing I found out this week was that every doctor I saw said ‘I don't know why they're telling women to come in at 50, you girls should be coming in at 40 (for a mammogram)’.”</p> <p>However, an opinion piece published on The Age on the weekend claimed Sam’s advice was “foolish” and “misguided”.</p> <p>Penned by doctor and professor at the University of Sydney, Alexandra Barratt, the column stated: “Screening tests can lead to "overdiagnosis" - the detection of cancers that are so slow growing, they will never cause symptoms or death and are better left alone.”</p> <p>Dr Barratt added: “Screening can turn healthy women... into cancer patients who have surgery and drug and radiation treatments for a harmless cancer.”</p> <p>She wrote “screening healthy women in their 40s is more likely to harm than save lives” and advised women under the age of 50 to see a doctor if they notice changes in their breasts.</p> <p><img width="417" height="339" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/02/25/09/4992904200000578-5432135-Having_her_say_Sam_posted_a_screencap_of_the_articles_headline_t-a-44_1519549417821.jpg" alt="Having her say: Sam posted a screengrab of the article's headline to Instagram, accompanied by a lengthy comment criticising Fairfax Media" class="blkBorder img-share b-loaded" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" id="i-3790dc64d7c2de8d"/></p> <p>Taking to Instagram that same day, the 41-year-old presenter hit back, writing: “Appalling that The Age newspaper would print this.”</p> <p>While Sam clarified that she “didn't want everyone to flood the health system”, she advised it was something that “at the age of 40, you should be starting to think about”.</p> <p>She wrote: “Attacking me for encouraging women to have mammograms. Honestly... At NO POINT did I give medical advice.</p> <p>“My breast cancer specialist told me she would like women to be checked from 40 onwards... And all of my statistics for this story concerning breast cancer came from Breast Screen NSW.'</p> <p>“Appalling that The Age newspaper would print this,” Sam concluded. </p>

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This 18-year-old newspaper clipping is scarily accurate today

<p>To say a lot has changed since 1999 would be an understatement. No one would be caught dead using a mobile phone with an antenna, nor would they be seen driving along to the sound of the Backstreet Boys.</p> <p>But while many things have (thankfully) changed in the last 18 years, a resurfaced newspaper clipping from that year has us wondering, maybe today isn’t so much different after all.</p> <p>A Reddit user has shared a clipping from the November 1, 1999 edition of the Wisconsin newspaper <em>The Oshkosh Northwestern</em>, and it’s so eerily accurate in today’s climate that it could almost have been written yesterday.</p> <p><img width="600" height="746" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/43690/gitjgazuws6micvwkqcaqgzbarv6kgxh_x1qxd-bhz8_600x746.jpg" alt="Gitjg Azuw S6Mi CVwkq CAq GZb ARV6k GXh _X1QXd -bh Z8" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"/></p> <p>The clipping, which the Reddit user captioned, “It’s amazing how nothing has changed in the last 18 years,” speaks of a Trump presidency, Korean nuclear weapons, dodgy Clinton donations and even Al Gore makes an appearance.</p> <p>Under the headline, “Trump would be U.S. trade rep,” it reads, “Donald Trump said Sunday that as president, he personally would handle US trade talks and would restore respect from countries doing business with America.”</p> <p>He also reportedly “took aim at North Korea and China for ignoring U.S. overtures and building nuclear weapons”. Spooky!</p> <p>What do you think of this eerily accurate newspaper clipping from 18 years ago? Tell us in the comments below. </p> <p><em>Image credit: PresidentJohnMiller/Reddit.</em></p>

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Man buys himself home after selling newspapers for 5 years

<p>Saving to buy a home is a long and arduous task, one which Nashville resident Mario Martinez knows all too well.</p> <p>Martinez, along with his dog, Bear, has spent the last five years selling a not-for-profit newspaper about homelessness, the Contributor. He saved almost every dollar he made and now, he finally has enough money to buy a new home.</p> <p>“I’m just so grateful,” he said.</p> <p>“There are so many people who believed in me.”</p> <p>Martinez had been living in an abandoned barn with no water or heat while selling the paper.</p> <p>Martinez was able to secure a home with the help of one of his supporters, real estate agent Brian Kemp, who often saw Martinez selling his papers on the street.</p> <p>“He didn’t know me but I knew him because of Bear,” he said.</p> <p>Kemp helped Martinez look for his new home finding him a 2,500 square foot home on three acres in Charlotte, Tennessee.</p> <p>“Once I get a stove, I’m going to learn how to cook. That’s what I’m gonna do,” Martinez said.</p> <p><strong>Related links: </strong></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/lifestyle/family-pets/2016/04/how-grandparenting-today-has-changed/"><em>The new rules of grandparenthood</em></a></strong></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/lifestyle/family-pets/2016/04/best-activities-to-do-with-grandchildren/"><em>10 of the best activities to do with grandchildren</em></a></strong></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/lifestyle/family-pets/2016/03/100-years-of-family-dinner/"><em>100 years of family dinner in 3 minutes</em></a></strong></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong> </strong></span></p>

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Man’s hilarious letter to newspaper after wife goes to hospital

<p>One may have lived in a home for decades but that does not mean one knows where the tea towels live, especially if you’re of the male variety. Well, that seems to be the case for this man.</p> <p>Brian Noble, from Ferntree Gully in Victoria, panicked after his wife of 40 years went to hospital “to have her feet done”. No, he was not panicked that his partner was in hospital, but that try as he might he could not find the tea towels.</p> <p>After three days of searching high and low, Noble took the only recourse he thought possible: Write to a national newspaper asking for help.</p> <p><img width="500" height="675" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/15736/man-write-hilarious-letter-to-paper_500x675.jpg" alt="Man Write Hilarious Letter To Paper"/></p> <p>The letter appeared in The Age in November last year and reads: “This letter is more of a confession than anything. A guy thing where you don’t even know where the tea towels live. My partner of 40 years unselfishly decided to get her feet done and she’s been in hospital for the past three days. She’s doing really well but I still don’t know where the tea towels are. I must be sexist. It’s my fault. Why have I left it up to her for all these years? God knows, I’ve looked for the tea towels all over the place but I just can’t find them. I failed the man/woman equality thing. Anyone know where I can get disposable tea towels before you-know-who comes home?”</p> <p>Here’s hoping Brian found the tea towels!</p> <p><strong>Related links:</strong></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/lifestyle/relationships/2016/01/secret-of-happy-couples/">7 things all happy couples do</a></em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/lifestyle/relationships/2015/12/word-that-makes-or-breaks-relationships/">The word that makes or breaks relationships</a></em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.oversixty.co.nz/lifestyle/relationships/2015/08/realistic-quotes-about-love/">10 realistic quotes about love</a></em></strong></span></p>

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