Category: Articles
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New Year’s Resolution #2: Koselig or Hygge – bringing Scandinavian bliss to Australia
We’re a month into our New Year’s Resolution series… January brought us the concept of a home-made lunch for work every day – and to quickly recap, I think I’m doing pretty well with that resolution. Some days I’ll slip and buy something, but I have REALLY gotten into curried egg open-face sandwiches for work…
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Sami Blood…. the tragedy of inherent racism.
When I first saw that “Sami Blood” was available on streaming service Stan, I didn’t really know what to expect. It was clearly a film about the Sami in Scandinavia – but the caption of this 2016 film didn’t seem to provide much to go on.. A reindeer-breeding sami girl who is exposed to the…
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‘In winter, if you surf for two hours, you can’t feel your fingers’
article sourced from TheLocal.no Far from the sun-kissed beaches of Rio de Janeiro and Ipanema, Brazilian surfer Gil Ferreira plunges into Norway’s icy waters to ride over the dark swells of the Arctic. Swapping shorts for a thick-skinned wetsuit and gloves, Ferreira braved freezing weather, rain and seals in the Lofoten Masters, the only surf competition held…
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New Year’s Resolution #1 – home-made lunch
I don’t know about you, but one of my resolutions this year is to make sure that I bring my own lunch to work every day instead of wasting money on take-away lunches (or drinking enough coffee so I’m just not hungry). Good resolution, yes? According to the below BBC article posted a couple of…
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It’s been a while…
Hello everyone, It’s been a while since we’ve last posted on the website, so, a little over a week ahead of Christmas, we thought we’d drop a line and say that we have some great things planned on the website for 2019, and maybe even a post or two between now and Christmas to talk…
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Wolf campaigners boycott sheep meat in Norway
article sourced from The Local.No In the next step of an already controversial argument, animal rights activists in Norway have begun boycotting local sheep meat in protest at a new round of licensed wolf hunts planned for this winter.More than 800 Norwegians have joined the Facebook Page Boikott konfliktkjøtt (Boycott Conflict Meat), which aims to pressure farmers…
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The great (porridge) debate
It was this morning as I was listening to one of my lectures for a subject I’m studying at UNE (Europe and the New World) while scarfing down a bowl of steaming porridge (instant – but there’s no stovetops at work, so judge not!) that I started to wonder…there were so many, many foods that…
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Norway following Australia’s lead in banning branded packaging for tobacco products.
A law change that comes into effect on July 1st will require all packaging on cigarettes and snus in Norway to be entirely neutral. Selling the tobacco products in non-standardised packaging will be illegal under the new law. “This is an important step towards the long-term aim of a tobacco-free society. Protecting children and young…
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The first electric plane takes flight in Norway
Minister for Transport Ketil Solvik-Olsen will be on board as Norway’s first electric aircraft makes its first journey on Monday. Avinor, the owner of the aircraft and Norwegian airport operator, wants the Scandinavian country to be a world leader in electric aviation and has set a target for all domestic flights in the country to…
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15 things you probably didn’t know about Norse mythology
We here at the NCQ are fascinated with Norse mythology – for myself, I’ve studied courses on Norse history and myths through Oxford and UNE – and while I’m thinking of starting a myths and legends segment on the website (what do you think about that?), I thought we could start with some interesting facts…