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
By Jennifer Ann Davies NCWQ Arts and Letters Adviser In a place of beauty, extraordinary legacies, change, and vibrant histories, indelible ghosts hover, whisper and smile……the Arts are still highly valued, not as fluffy stuff,
By Jennifer Ann Davies, NCWQ Arts and Letters Adviser A New Year with New Opportunities! New Ways of evoking poetic versions of our fluid reality exist….be they through rhythmic sound effects, scratching pens, humming electronic
By Pat Pepper NCWQ Environment Adviser Update on Great Barrier Reef (GBR): In their response to the Great Barrier Reef Water Science Taskforce (GBREST) the Queensland Government (QG) has agreed or agreed in principle in
By Jennifer Ann Davies NCWQ Arts & Letters Adviser Miranda HINE won the inaugural Society of Fine Arts Association Museum Emerging Arts Writers’ Award, with her essay, “Self-Portrait- as Steve Hart: ADDING NEW VOICES TO
By Georgina Pickers NCWQ International Relations and Peace and Human Rights Adviser An associate of NCWQ drew my attention to the on-going legal ‘firestorm’ which started in 2013. It was created by students attending the