"Mixed Bag" March 2011 Answers

1. a) berates / rebates;  b) waste/sweat;  c) claimed/decimal
2. a) band;  b) will
3. Tamworth NSW
4. quire
5. Bugs Bunny
6.  Royal Routine Flush
7. Paris
8. C. 20th Century
9. Royal Coat of Arms
10. Four
11. Melanie Griffiths
12. Nepal
13. Anthropology
14. prayers
15. Aramaic
16. A butt (or barrel) of wine
17. Starlight Express
18. Rainy days and Mondays
19. Ronald Reagan
20. Indonesia
21. Jenny
22. 1992
23. He was a fictitious character – a hoax on the publisher
24. chicken
25. 24
26. So
27. saint
28. newspaper
29. pierces, precise
30. Tasmania

Vic Department of Health's "Better Health Channel"

by Graeme Hanigan

This is the background to a petition addressed to The  Minister of Health, David Davis MLC, calling for a review of the Victorian Department of Health’s Better Health Channel

Penelope Dingle was 45 years old when she died of colorectal cancer on the 25th of August, 2005. Had her cancer been detected and treated when symptoms were first observed 4 years earlier, she may still be alive today.  Instead of seeking medical treatment, Penelope put her health into the incompetent hands of a deluded Homeopathic quack.
At the conclusion of the inquest into the sad death of Penelope Dingle, the W.A. State Coroner made two recommendations. View More Vic Department of Health's "Better Health Channel"