By Jennifer Ann DAVIES Arts and Letters Adviser ‘Sombra del Viento’ “Who Weekly’ published the comment that it is difficult to categorise the wondrous novel, ‘The Shadow of the Wind’ ……for one recognises mystery, romance,
By Pat Pepper NCWQ Environment Adviser Update on Great Barrier Reef (GBR): High sea surface temperatures continued into April resulting in unprecedented mass coral bleaching. This has been particularly severe in the Far Northern Region with aerial
By Jennifer Ann DAVIES NCWQ Arts and Letters Adviser Funding and Policy influencing Arts/Letters Information relating to funding and policy making or policy changes from a State and/or a Federal level, is invariably included in the
By Jennifer Ann DAVIES NCWQ Arts and Letters Adviser Truth in Literature! “FARTHER AWAY” Jonathon FRANZEN Fourth Estate, Harper Collins, London, W6 8JB, 2012 In a delivery at Kenyon College, lecturer, philosopher and author,
By Pat Pepper NCWQ Environment Adviser National Council of Women Australia (NCWA) Conference (11-13October): At the Conference, members voted unanimously for the following two Resolutions which relate to the Environment:- The NCW Australia urges all
By Pat Pepper NCWQ Environment Adviser Update on Great Barrier Reef (GBR): In response to widespread reports of minor bleaching of coral and forecasts by the Bureau of Meteorology and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
By Jennifer Ann DAVIES NCWQ Arts and Letters Adviser LITERATURE – How to read! “…The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.” Wallace Stevens. There
By Jennifer Ann DAVIES NCWQ Arts and Letters Adviser LITERATURE! A book about hope and human resilience……again and again people who have been through terrible, unimaginable horrors……can smile…tell jokes, they can be compassionate to others.
By Val Cocksedge NCWQ Nutrition Adviser The theme for 2015 World Food Day – 16th October is “Social Protection and Agriculture – Breaking the Cycle of rural poverty”. Social protection has been chosen as the theme