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Engaging Indigenous people within Higher Ed

CQUniversity's Office of Indigenous Engagement recently hosted a visit from the Oodgeroo Unit of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), at Rockhampton Campus.

Professor Anita Lee Hong, Director of the Oodgeroo Unit, and Lone Pearce, Project Officer, met with Office of Indigenous Engagement staff to discuss employment issues and best practice models for engaging Indigenous people within the higher education sector, including governance matters.

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Fatigue inquest timely given region hosting major shiftwork event  

Published on 16 July, 2007 

A coronial inquest into road deaths involving a mine worker on the Rockhampton-Yeppoon Road is scheduled to start only a week before academics arrive from across Australia and overseas to discuss safety problems caused by shiftwork and driver fatigue.

Central Queensland University is hosting the International Symposium on Shiftwork and Working Time at Yeppoon from August 28-31.

More than 110 international experts will converge for the event (details of which are at  www.shiftwork.cqu.edu.au )  
While the symposium is for academics, 2 special workshops have also been arranged for regional managers and will be held on the August  27 .  

Symposium organiser Associate Professor Lee Di Milia said some of the visiting speakers have had extensive experience in Australian industry, including mining, aviation and health services.

"This is the first time since 1994 that this meeting has taken place in Australia," Dr Di Milia said.

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Lee Di Milia