Readers Digest Australia

In this era of information overload, Reader’s Digest offers something unique: the very best advice, information and inspiration from multiple sources, condensed into an easy-to-read digest. In each issue you’ll get trusted, time-saving insights about Health, Personal Finance, Work, Family, and National issues, PLUS exclusive book excerpts, news-making interviews, and humor.

EDITOR’S NOTE • A Choice Selection Of Stories

Readers Digest Australia

LETTERS • Reader’s Comments And Opinions

RD SHOP

Octogenarian Creates Free Game App

Border Collie Saves The Day

Post To Post Recycling Trial In Progress

My Year Of Playing 70 Sports • The year I turned 70, I decided to have some fun and games

SMART ANIMALS • The world around them is a wondrous place

Attract Native Wildlife Into Your Garden • Provide water, a food supply and a protective habitat

A Healing Process • Why do wounds mend more slowly as we age?

Sore Feet? • How to choose a pair of shoes that keep your toes, heels and arches happy

WORLD OF MEDICINE

A FRESH FRAME • Elvis Costello has been delivering hits for decades. Stewart Bell discovers the pandemic has had a big impact on his latest music

SWEPT AWAY • For the parents of the bride, fear replaces joy as a raging river scoops up their car on the way to the wedding

LIFE’S LIKE THAT • Seeing The Funny Side

THE GREAT TWEET-OFF: THE SCHOOL RUN • The parents of Twitter have some good pick-up lines.

PIZZA • Today it is relished around the world, but pizza was once scorned as poor-man’s fare – until royalty intervened…

MARGHERITA PIZZA

Can You Change Your Luck? • And is luck even a real thing? It’s complicated

SEE THE WORLD… …DIFFERENTLY

LAUGHTER • The Best Medicine

AP-PEELING BANANA JOKES FOR A BUNCH OF LAUGHS

Beware The ANTI-CLIMAX • How to handle the unexpected downside of achieving your goals

The Quirks Of LONG-TERM LOVE

Things DENTISTS Want You To Know About COVID-19 • As we move towards living with COVID-19, could good dental hygiene be an extra layer of protection in reducing your risk of serious disease? A growing group of dental experts think so

JOBS AT THE TOP • They are not only found in the executive suite

LAUGHING Matters • Humour connects us to one another. But what we find funny has changed over the past 100 years

New Help For Hearing Loss • Today’s solutions not only reunite you with easy conversations, they also reduce your chances of having a fall, becoming depressed and more

QUOTABLE QUOTES

The Ancien MAGIC Of KITES • For millennia, kites have mesmerised people around the world. Now, a new generation of artists is taking their creations to greater heights

ALL IN A DAY’S WORK • Humour On The Job

SHOULD’VE SEEN THAT COMING

Clean The Things You Never Do* • We often ignore important things in our housework routine. But adding a task or two is easy

Ping Gaston • Fostering a pair of ducklings brought new joy to our home – until I discovered what awaited them back at the farm

BA LI By Chance • Our unplanned visit to this holiday hotspot was full of surprises

SWITCHED • In 1962, nurses at a small hospital sent home two women with the wrong babies. Then, 50 years later, their children discovered the shocking mistake

RD RECOMMENDS

JUST KEEP WALKING… • Wait! Is The 10,000 Step Goal A Myth?

PUZZLES • Challenge yourself by solving these puzzles and mind stretchers, then check your answers on page 154.

FAMILY FUN

TRIVIA • Test Your General Knowledge

Answers PUZZLE...