By Jennifer Ann Davies NCWQ Music Adviser With harmony and beauty, we compose, play, sing and enjoy…. ‘music’ (noun). Art of combining sounds of voice(s) or instrument(s) to achieve beauty of form and expression
By Jennifer Ann Davies NCWQ Arts and Letters Adviser “O tempora! O mores!” Oh the times! Oh the customs! (Latin) History opens up like a landscape for us to see through forgotten windows. Musee des
By Pat Pepper NCWQ Environment Adviser Waste: Australians are generating around 64 million tonnes of waste every year. This could cause health and environmental problems. To combat this problem the Federal and State Governments are
By Val Cocksedge, OAM NCWQ Consumer Affairs Adviser From February 2019, energy retailers will be required to give customers five days advance notice of price changes in their energy contract. More than a third of
By Pat Pepper NCWQ Environment Adviser Update on Climate Change – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report: Under the Paris Agreement 197 nations agreed to reduce global warming emissions and limit the increase
By Jennifer Ann Davies NCWQ Arts and Letters Adviser ‘Underline’- Every quarter, Underline publishes a collection of extracts, interviews, articles, short stories, reflections and much more, to celebrate brilliant writing in its many forms. Designed
By Georgina Pickers NCWQ International Relations & Peace Adviser This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. While in principal it stands solid, the ideals it enshrined are unfortunately not adhered
By Val Cocksedge NCWQ Nutrition Adviser Australia’s health, well-being and productivity are being threatened by an epidemic of weight-related illness. 63.4% of Australian adults are above a healthy weight, with 27.9% obese and 35.5% overweight.
By Georgina Pickers NCWQ International Relations and Peace Adviser International Relations and Peace and Human Rights coexist – one dependant on the other. Like the biblical Ten Commandments, the H.R. conventions should be at the