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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
25 things you probably didn’t know about Norway
Norway is undoubtedly a fascinating country. With a recorded history spanning over 1000 years and unwritten history for tens of thousands of years before that, the land of the midnight…
VIDEO SPECIAL! A Norwegian Christmas
See a great video below featuring Club President Randi. A lovely video on Xmas in Australia – Spoken in Norwegian Vestlandsk jul i Australia
Some legal advice for business owners from one of the Clubs members.
Owning and operating a small business is the dream of many Australian families. On current figures, there are over two million small businesses actively operating in Australia. It is a…