CQU researchers Dr Leonie Andersen and Dr Felicity Melville have featured on ABC TV's Stateline show, discussing the 2006 oil spill in Gladstone Harbour.

The program points out that the CQU pair were the first marine scientists on the scene.

An abstract from a paper by Liz Sidiropoulos, CQU Melbourne Campus.

International education has been one of the fastest growing sectors of the Australian economy, rising from over $2 billion in 1995-96 to almost $10 billion in export revenue in 2005-06 (Dodd, 2006).

Successfully competing against larger IT companies from Sydney and Melbourne for federally funded projects is a feather in the cap for Bundaberg's new media company, Catalyst Media, founded just 18 months ago with 2 CQU Bundaberg alumni leading the team.

In this short time the company has grown from 4 employees to 11 - 2 designers, a trainee designer, 5 web developers, a manager and reception staff.

At a company dinner in Rockhampton recently, Anglo Coal General Managers applauded the Associate Degree of Engineering (Mining) program for its foresight in addressing the mining industry's skill shortage.

It has been 3 years since the program first took on Anglo Coal recruitments and already the company is reaping the rewards of workplace integrated learning.

Her Excellency Quentin Bryce AC, Governor of Queensland, and her Aide-de-Camp Lieutenant Commander Matthew Rowe, RANR ADC, visited CQU Gladstone on Friday April 20, accompanied by Gladstone City Mayor, Peter Corones.

It was part of a three-day stay in Gladstone.

Last Thursday and Friday, over 1000 youngsters and their favourite teddy bears put on their best pajamas and participated in one of 6 sold-out musical pajama parties at the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music (CQCM).

The Pajama Party is a 40-minute comic play/opera written by CQCM students and their lecturer, Kim Kirkman.