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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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CQU gives to eggs-tremely good cause 

Easter festivities prompted the charitable Office of Research to donate hundreds of Easter Eggs to Wahroonga Family Counselling Centre yesterday. Research training and projects officer, Dearne Mayer said the staff were planning their own Easter Egg hunt when a colleague suggested collecting eggs for the Skyring Street centre’s disadvantaged children.

PhotoID:832 The idea spread and Central Qld Fertility offered an array of chocolate bunnies to complement the Office of Research contribution.

Wahroonga Family Counselling is a Qld Baptist Care initiative co-funded by the Department of Families, Youth and Community Care which runs a child protection program and a new youth suicide prevention project.

Collaborative and Innovative Responses for Youth at Risk (CIRYAR) offers confidential counselling and support to Rockhampton’s youth.