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Letter writers: Please be disgusted but don’t be disgusting
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Letters

Letter writers: Please be disgusted but don’t be disgusting

Letters to the editor writers celebrate and commiserate about the art of composing cogent and concise correspondence.

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You too will get old, but it can be a joyful experience
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Letters

You too will get old, but it can be a joyful experience

Readers discuss new aged care reforms but not everyone agrees they will be better off as a result.

Baby Boomers face aged care bed shortages as funding crisis worsens
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Aged care

Baby Boomers face aged care bed shortages as funding crisis worsens

The shortage could leave the sector without 21,200 beds as operators warn of financial pressures that will force them to close more homes than they build.

  • by David Crowe
Want to be ‘carried out in a box’? How retirees can tap into the value of their homes

Want to be ‘carried out in a box’? How retirees can tap into the value of their homes

For many Australians over 65, a significant amount of their wealth is tied up in the family home. Here are some safe ways to access it.

  • by Kaye Fallick
We poor old Baby Boomers, we can’t get anything right

We poor old Baby Boomers, we can’t get anything right

Age readers respond to criticism of the Baby Boomer generation.

Boomers spend, Zoomers struggle as economic divide widens

Boomers spend, Zoomers struggle as economic divide widens

Prabhat and Neena Sinha love to travel and have plenty of hobbies in their retirement, but they see the effect the cost of living is having on their children.

  • by Shane Wright and Millie Muroi
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Good things come in coloured envelopes, but only Boomers know that
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Opinion

Good things come in coloured envelopes, but only Boomers know that

Alas, we no longer send birthday cards like we used to. It’s a hallmark of the times.

  • by Jo Stubbings
‘I didn’t expect to be a model at my age’: The women over 80 defying stereotypes

‘I didn’t expect to be a model at my age’: The women over 80 defying stereotypes

Forget retirement. Today’s octogenarians are just as likely to be building companies and fronting fashion campaigns.

  • by Dilvin Yasa
It’s tougher now than in the 1980s

It’s tougher now than in the 1980s

Even Boomers agree: younger people are doing it terribly tough because of the cost of putting a roof over their head.

I’m a writer, so how does my statistician partner beat me at word games?

I’m a writer, so how does my statistician partner beat me at word games?

When we do puzzles together, something dark and fierce takes over. I feel a frenzied desire to win.

  • by Kerri Sackville
The sensible stamp duty thought-bubble buried in a budget reply
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NSW budget

The sensible stamp duty thought-bubble buried in a budget reply

The NSW opposition’s budget reply speech, as is customary, was an extended swipe at the government. But there was one good idea.

  • by Alexandra Smith

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