By Jennifer Ann Davies NCWQ Arts and Letters Report The Languages of Living, Looking and Listening! Accredited performance storyteller with the Australian Guild of Storytellers, Kate Forsyth, has written: “…books are a magical gateway to
The annual NCWQ Christmas Luncheon provided a great opportunity for some members of the Bursary Project Team to meet up with some recipients. 2017 recipients, Rebecca Masterton, Soroptimist International bursary, and Lucy Connolly, NCWQ Regional/Remote
By Georgina Pickers, NCWQ Adviser In October Australia was voted onto the Human Rights Council of the United Nations. This is a 3 year term commencing 01 January 2018. Australia joins an eclectic array of
By Jennifer Ann Davies NCWQ Arts and Letters Adviser Almost holiday time for some!! Wonderful wit, warmth and wisdom wait for us, this holiday season! For the ‘time-poor’ there’s the novella! For the ‘pocket-poor’ there’s
By Noela O’Donnell AM The 2017 National Council of Women of Queensland Inc. (NCWQ) bursaries fund-raising morning tea, with a focus on acknowledging rural and regional women, achieved its goals on every measure. The diversity
This article was reposted with the author’s permission. The original link can be found here. Women make up just one-third of today’s Australia Day honours recipients, the same as they have every year for almost
By Val Cocksedge OAM NCWQ Nutrition Adviser New UN Decade: The General Assembly decided 2016-2015 will be the Decade of Action on Nutrition, recognising the need to eradicate hunger and prevent all forms of malnutrition
By Marjorie Voss OAM NCWQ Child and Family Adviser Domestic and Family Violence; Child Abuse and Neglect; Child Sexual Abuse; Elder Abuse; Sexual Abuse and Assault; Bullying; Homelessness; Poverty; and Suicide. I addressed these topics
By Pat Pepper NCWQ Environmental Adviser A range of environmental issues were researched and reported on during the year. Threats to Great Barrier Reef and global warming remain major issues. Advocacy was undertaken on these