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It was J P Hartley who wrote that “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” The thing is, though, what if – once upon a time – a whole generation of women that includes you had lived there? Compared with what we now have, would you want to go back? At... Read More

A man was shot by police in the suburb of Endeavor Hills on Wednesday night after allegedly assaulting an elderly man with a sword in Melbourne’s south-east last night. The attacker is believed to have broken into a house to assault the elderly gentleman in what police have described as being an act of ‘family... Read More

Lately, I’ve been coming across phrases about ageing that I’m finding bothersome. For example, there is a birthday card that promises “You’re not getting OLDER, you’re getting WISER. And not so long ago there was a public health forum on ageing, chaired by a “Senior Old Age Psychiatrist”, and whose headlined subject was “I’m OLDER,... Read More