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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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Rolfe tells Americans our floods 'a bigger shock than Katrina' 

Published on 24 January, 2011 

The recent floods would be a larger shock to the Australian economy proportionally than Hurricane Katrina was to the American economy.

That's according to CQUniversity's Professor John Rolfe, who spoke about the relative impact of the natural disasters in an interview aired on the National Public Radio network in the United States.

PhotoID:10332, Professor John Rolfe
Professor John Rolfe

He said the floods have hurt production and caused global commodity prices to spike.

"The reason is that the state of Queensland has a dominant proportion of some of Australia's most valuable commodities. Many of these are sold to China, whose voracious demand for resources has driven commodity prices up," Professor Rolfe says.

You can read or listen to his views via Australia Floods Boost World Commodity Prices .

Professor Rolfe has done many flood-related interviews with Australian and overseas media, including New Zealand's Newstalk ZB and news outlets in France.