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The age group that experiences ageism the most

<p dir="ltr">Australians over the age of 50 consider ageism to be a serious problem particularly as they get older. </p> <p dir="ltr">A new poll of 1,000 Aussies conducted by RedBridge Group placed them in age groups - 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s age groups, ahead of the nation’s Ageism Awareness Day on Friday. </p> <p dir="ltr">The research found that 68 per cent of people aged over 50 have experienced ageism and consider it a huge issue. </p> <p dir="ltr">However, those in their 80s dismissed ageism by being the group to complain the least about it. </p> <p dir="ltr">Dr Marlene Krasovitsky, the head of EveryAGE Counts, said it is evident that from the poll results, Aussies are feeling “powerless” when it comes to ageing. </p> <p dir="ltr">"Ageism is pervasive, but often hidden. The only way we can end it is to bring it out of the shadows,” she said. </p> <p dir="ltr">"Often older Australians feel powerless when we encounter ageism. However, if we know what it looks like and name it, we can take constructive actions in response. In this way each of us can help build an Australia without ageism.</p> <p dir="ltr">"People often don't know how to approach difficult conversations about ageism, but we know there are approaches that work better than others. For example, it's tempting to argue that 'one day you'll be in my shoes,' but the latest research shows people find it hard to conceptualise their future selves, and that it may actually be more persuasive to simply explain the impact the ageism had on you personally.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Ageism Awareness Day ambassador Monica Trapaga suggested a way to tackle the negativity surrounding ageism is by spreading awareness.</p> <p dir="ltr">“So much ageism happens unconsciously, and it's allowed to keep happening because we don't feel sufficiently informed or empowered to push back,” she said. </p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Image: Shutterstock</em></p>

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Mona Lisa voted the greatest artwork of all time

<p dir="ltr">The <em>Mona Lisa</em> has been voted the greatest artwork of all time in an extensive poll of British art enthusiasts. </p> <p dir="ltr">The survey found that the majority of Brits still consider the classics to be the greatest works of art, and that two thirds consider themselves “art lovers”. </p> <p dir="ltr">Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece has been hailed the country's favourite piece of art, with 34 percent of Brits voting it number one.</p> <p dir="ltr">The <em>Mona Lisa</em> is widely regarded as the most iconic artwork, with millions travelling to the Louvre each year to see her elusive smile. </p> <p dir="ltr">Vincent Van Gough's <em>Sunflowers</em> was not far behind in second place, with the painting getting 32 percent of the vote.</p> <p dir="ltr">Painted in Arles, in the south of France, in 1888 and 1889, the series consists of five large canvases with sunflowers in a vase.</p> <p dir="ltr">Painted in Arles in the south of France in 1888 and 1889, the series consists of five large canvases with sunflowers in a vase, with it being said that the sunflower paintings had a special significance for Van Gogh, communicating gratitude.</p> <p dir="ltr">Third on the list of the most admired works of art was the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.</p> <p dir="ltr">With six million visitors flocking to the Vatican every year to gaze at its beauty, the ceiling was painted in fresco by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, and is considered a cornerstone work of High Renaissance art.</p> <p dir="ltr">Other great works on the list included Antony Gormley's <em>The Angel of the North</em>, <em>Balloon Girl</em> by Banksy, Edward Munch’s <em>The Scream</em>, and <em>The Kiss</em> by Gustav Klimt. </p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Image credits: Getty Images</em></p> <p> </p>

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New poll spells trouble for Prince Harry and Meghan

<p>The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are preparing to celebrate their third wedding anniversary as a poll has revealed more than four in 10 people think they should lose their titles.</p> <p>Harry and Meghan tied the knot during an extravagant ceremony on May 19, 2018, and are most likely to celebrate the milestone privately at their Californian home.</p> <p>The wedding was the beginning of a new chapter for the monarchy as it was welcoming a person of mixed race into the family for the first time in centuries.</p> <p>But 18 months later, the Sussexes moved to North America with their son Archie and have never permanently returned to their UK home.</p> <p>A UK poll carried out on Monday found 44 per cent of 4567 adults questioned thought the couple should no longer have the title of Duke and Duchess.</p> <p>While 20 per cent believed they should keep their titles but not use them, 17 per cent said they should not lose their titles or stop using them ad 20 per cent did not know.</p> <p>The past few months have been a tumultuous time for the couple after their bombshell TV interview with Oprah Winfrey.</p> <p>The pair let all their grievances out and came clean on what it was really like to be a part of the royal family.</p> <p>A few days after their wedding anniversary Harry and Meghan, who is expecting a daughter in the summer, will appear in the first episode of the duke's mental health documentary series with Oprah Winfrey.</p>

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Jacinda Ardern sceptical about surprise new poll

<p>With the New Zealand election just 54 days away, a surprising poll has shown Prime Minister Jacinda Arden’s Labour Party surging to an unprecedented level of support.</p> <p>According to the Newshub-Reid Research poll, Labour is an astonishing 61 per cent, with the country’s main opposition party, National, at just 25 per cent. The Greens have 5.7 per cent, and every other minor party is in the low single digits.</p> <p>If the poll were replicated at the election on September 19, Labour would end up with 77 MPs, easily enough to govern without a coalition partner.</p> <p>That never happens under New Zealand’s “mixed member proportional” (MMP) electoral system.</p> <p>No party has ever obtained more than the 60 seats claimed by National in 2014, when it was led by John Key.</p> <p>Things aren’t looking too bright for the centre-right party anymore. </p> <p>Back in May, National let go of their leader Simon Bridges because according to surveys, their support at the time was 30 per cent - five points higher that it is today.</p> <p>Since then, the party has been in chaos.</p> <p>The man who replaced Bridges, Todd Muller, lasted 53 days before he quit, saying the job had taken a “heavy toll” on him and had become “untenable from a health perspective”.</p> <p>Earlier in the month, the leadership passed to veteran MP Judith Collins, a former justice and police minister.</p> <p>And to top it off, many senior MPs announced they were leaving politics at the election, as maybe the sensed an upcoming defeat.</p> <p>“The National Party is in full-blown self-destruct mode,” <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/07/newshub-reid-research-poll-the-destruction-of-national-under-judith-collins-as-party-sinks-to-25-percent.html" target="_blank">Newshub’s political editor</a> Tova O’Brien said today.</p> <p>“Ms Ardern looks untouchable, thanks in large part to National’s dysfunction and dismay.”</p> <p>Collins has dismissed the poll, saying the party’s own data is much more optimistic.</p> <p>“I don’t believe it at all. I think it’s entirely out of kilter; it’s absolutely opposite to what we’re hearing in the electorates,” she said.</p> <p>“The poll itself doesn’t go anywhere near where our polling is. The polling itself is clearly wrong.”</p> <p>“When they applied that methodology, you’re going through selecting people who meet certain criteria that you want to have inside your polls – age groups and diversity – but that doesn’t mean you are always getting a truly random sample of what people are thinking, politically,” Mr Brownlee told Morning Report.</p> <p>“This is drastic and inconsistent with our own polling.”</p> <p><a rel="noopener" href="https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/07/nz-election-2020-why-labour-s-polling-is-at-a-record-high-according-to-jacinda-ardern.html" target="_blank">According to O’Brien</a>, however, Ms Collins’ initial reaction to the poll was very different.</p> <p>“They know that this poll is the most accurate poll. It was at the last election,” O’Brien said.</p> <p>“When I first spoke to (Ms Collins) and gave her those numbers she said, ‘That’s disappointing, we need to do better.’ In the morning when she got the numbers, she was telling quite a different story.”</p> <p>Ms Ardern, for her part, is approaching the situation with cautious optimism.</p> <p>“Whether they’re high, whether they’re low, I always keep a healthy scepticism around polls, generally. I do keep an eye on trends though,” the Prime Minister told The AM Show today.</p> <p>“I’d like to think the trend, or at least what message we can take from this, is general support for the government’s COVID recovery and response plan.</p> <p>“But I’m never, ever complacent, and nor is the Labour Party. This is a really crucial time for New Zealand. We need to keep demonstrating that we’re focused, and we’ll be doing that every day of the election.”</p>

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Poll fail! SCOMO takes major hit following bushfire crisis

<p>Prime Minister Scott Morrison has suffered a major hit in the polls while admitting he could have “handled things on the ground much better” after taking a trip to Hawaii with his wife and two children in the middle of the devastating bushfires that have plagued the nation over the last few months.</p> <p>Mr Morrison fronted the media after weeks of dodging criticism, telling ABC’s<span> </span>Insiders<span> </span>program on Sunday that he could have done things “much better”.</p> <p>It is the first time since the federal election in 2018 that the Labor party has been ahead of the Coalition and Mr Morrison’s approval rating has plunged, according to a<span> </span>Newspoll.</p> <p>Labor is in front 51-49 on a two-party-preferred basis in the poll conducted for The Australian. This is a considerable turnaround from the last<span> </span><em>Newspoll<span> </span></em>in early December when the Coalition led 52-48.</p> <p>The Coalition’s primary vote has dropped two points to 40 per cent, while Labor’s has increased from 33 to 36 per cent since early December.</p> <p>Mr Morrison’s own approval rating has taken a nose dive in the latest poll.</p> <p>Approval for Mr Morrison tumbled from 45 to 37 per cent, while Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese’s rating has jumped from 40 to 46 per cent.</p> <p>Today host Karl Stefanovic asked Treasurer Josh Frydenberg: “Are you worried?”</p> <p>Mr Frydenberg responded: “We are absolutely just focused on the response and the recovery to this national crisis and as you indicated, Karl, today we are making a significant and initial contribution of $50 million to respond to the ecological disaster that we have seen across many states.</p> <p>“Our focus is on the Australian people. We have heard the message, loud and clear, that when it comes to these national disasters they want the Federal Government to be playing a very district role.”</p> <p>Stefanovic replied: “But Treasurer, the polls are also a sign that people were not happy with the way he handled thing, at least initially. So that has to be a concern for you?</p> <p>“Well, you saw the Prime Minister yesterday in the better view make the point that if he had known know what he knew then he had known know what he knew then he would have done some different things,” Mr Frydenberg said in regards to the PM’s comments to the ABC on Sunday.</p> <p>Speaking on Today, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson said the poll result did not come as a surprise.</p> <p>“It doesn’t surprise me because as I move around the country people are telling me they are very disappointed with Scott Morrison since the election. So they are not really happy with him,” she said.</p> <p>Mr Albanese has overtaken Mr Morrison as preferred prime minister and leads the Liberal leader 43 to 39 per cent, according to the survey of 1505 voters conducted from January 8-11.</p> <p>Mr Morrison has admitted he could have handled the happenings of Australia’s current crisis in a much better way.</p> <p>“There are things I could have handled on the ground much better,” Mr Morrison told ABC TV on Sunday.</p> <p>“These are sensitive, emotional environments.</p> <p>“Prime ministers are flesh and blood too in how they engage with these people.”</p> <p>Mr Morrison admitted he would not have taken his family for a holiday to Hawaii, although he had been defensive about it in a radio interview at the time.</p> <p>He said his original intention was to holiday, as was routine for his family, on the NSW south coast.</p> <p>Mr Morrison also discussed climate change as being a driver of the already devastating bushfires, saying the government’s emissions targets need to “evolve” as the summer seasons become longer, hotter and drier.</p> <p>Australia has pledged to cut emissions by 26 per cent on 2005 levels by 2030, under the Paris Agreement. However, the prime minister has faced criticism for lacking ambition to cut Australia’s emissions.</p> <p>“It is my intention to meet and beat that target,” Mr Morrison told reporters on Sunday.</p> <p>“We are going to continue to evolve our policy in this area to reduce emissions even further and we are going to do it without a carbon tax, without putting up electricity prices and without shutting down traditional industries,” he added in an ABC TV interview.</p> <p>Asked whether he was open to moving the existing target, he said: “What I’m saying is ‘we want to reduce emissions and do the best job we possibly can and get better and better and better at it’”.</p> <p>Mr Morrison said some within coalition ranks felt climate change had nothing to do with the bushfires. But reaffirmed it was the government’s “uncontested” advice and position that climate change was impacting summer seasons.</p> <p>Mr Morrison went on to say the impact of climate change would be one of the issues explored and discussed by the royal commission into the bushfires.</p>

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Polls predict result of EU referendum

<p>Polling stations around the UK have just closed their doors, and by 7am tomorrow (7pm this evening in New Zealand), we will know once and for all if British citizens wish to stay in the European Union or leave.</p> <p>Despite fierce debate on both sides, polls are predicting voters will choose to remain in the EU – but only just. YouGov polled 5,000 people and found 52 per cent were in favour of remain versus 48 per cent for leave. Two other polls by campaign group Leave.EU and Ipsos Mori returned the same result.</p> <p>Voters surveyed both before and after going to the voting booths were found to have edged more towards a “remain” vote in the YouGov survey. “The survey found a small move to Remain and based on these results we expect the United Kingdom to continue as a member of the European Union,” predicts political researcher Joe Twyman.</p> <p>A colourful Twitter exchange between UKIP leader Nigel Farage and Sir Nicholas Soames, grandson of Winston Churchill, highlights just how many Brits are feeling in the approach to the big decision.</p> <p>“If you want your borders back, if you want your democracy back, if you want your country back then vote to leave! Independence Day,” wrote Farage, to which Soames replied simply, “Oh bollocks.”</p> <p>Let us know in the comments, what do you think about the UK referendum? Should they stay or should they go?</p> <p><strong>Related links:</strong></p> <p><a href="/travel/international-travel/2016/06/photographs-of-britain-preparing-for-referendum/"><strong><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">13 photographs of Britain preparing for historic EU referendum</span></em></strong></a></p> <p><a href="/health/caring/2016/06/grandpa-leaves-gold-to-family-in-treasure-hunt/"><strong><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Grandpa buries $1.65 million worth of gold in his backyard</span></em></strong></a></p> <p><a href="/news/news/2016/06/duchess-of-cambridge-bad-cook/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>Duchess of Cambridge admits she can’t cook</strong></em></span></a></p>

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