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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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Uni helps spread word about 'biggest book group' 

Published on 04 November, 2011 

As a National Year of Reading partner, CQUniversity is encouraging people to get involved with Australia's biggest book group and to vote for the book they think should represent their state or territory.

Readers can help decide the eight books that are the National Year of Reading 2012 collection. Details are available via http://www.love2read.org.au/ .

PhotoID:11567, CQUni Library staff member Joyce Halwenge displays two of the books on the Queensland shortlist, 'Journey to the Stone Country' and 'Brisbane'
CQUni Library staff member Joyce Halwenge displays two of the books on the Queensland shortlist, 'Journey to the Stone Country' and 'Brisbane'

Shortlisted books represent the 'Australian experience' and CQUniversity stocks most of the Queensland shortlist:

  • - Chloe Hooper, The Tall Man, 2008, Penguin
  • - Andrew McGahan, The White Earth, 2005, Allen & Unwin
  • - Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, 2002, Allen & Unwin
  • - Matthew Condon, Brisbane, 2010, New South Publishing

Other titles from the Queensland shortlist are available in community libraries:

- Estelle Pinney, House on the Hill, Penguin

- Ian Townsend, Affection, 2005, Harper Collins

Voting commences on November 1, online at www.abc.net.au/yearofreading  and in participating libraries and book shops. 

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