By Val Cocksedge NCWQ Nutrition Adviser New U.N. Decade – General Assembly decides 2016-2025 will be the Decade of Action on Nutrition, recognising the need to eradicate hunger and prevent all forms of malnutrition worldwide,
By Marjorie Voss OAM NCWQ Child and Family Adviser In February I received an email from the CEO of the Lady Musgrave Trust, Karen Lyon Reid which read in part as follows. “ Today we
By Val Cocksedge NCWQ Consumer Affairs Adviser The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) urged businesses to adopt the new industry code designed to reduce the number of deaths and injury resulting from children swallowing
By Jennifer Ann Davies NCWQ Arts and Letters Adviser Lisbon is new to me. It is like a huge Museum which one could explore for many, many days or weeks! – here there are not
Formal concise report from Habitat3 for South East Queensland This UNAAQ event resulted from culmination of 5 years of preparation to endorse Sustainable Development Goal 11 on cities; the 2-year drafting of the New
By Georgina Pickers NCWQ International Relations & Peace & Human Rights Adviser While the feminist heart in me wanted Hilary Clinton to finally break the most powerful ‘glass ceiling’ in political history, my pragmatic head