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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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100 top coal and geology experts gather in Rockhampton 

Around 100 coal and geology experts will gather in Rockhampton this Thursday and Friday (March 1-2) for the combined Bowen Basin Geologists' Group and Australian Coal Association Research Program Meeting.

The meeting will be held in the Building 6 Lecture Theatre at CQU Rockhampton.

Participants will also attend a dinner at the Heritage Village on the Thursday night (including a guest address on the History of Coal and Exploration in the Bowen Basin by Peter Goscombe, who is due to receive the Leichhardt Award for distinguished service).

Participants are coming from across NSW and Queensland and include geologists, geophysicists and research and development scientists from the CSIRO, universities and consultancies.

CQU's Associate Professor Colin Greensill was one of the meeting coordinators.