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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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Staff and students get bare facts on wastewater 

Published on 09 April, 2008 

CQU staff and students recently (April 4) attended an on-site wasterwater seminar and demonstration at Maslin Beach - Australia's first legal nude beach - in South Australia.

But it was all eyes on the trench seminar and 'real' evapo-transpiration-absorption system installation associated with a public toilet block at the beach.

PhotoID:5599, Leaders of the Maslin Beach wastewater event
Leaders of the Maslin Beach wastewater event

Earlier in the day, the Rockhampton Campus delegates, and students that CQU helps teach through the Global Water Systems II Masters in Sustainable Water Management Program, attended a seminar with presentations from some of Australia's best wastewater academics.

The presentations included one from CQU researcher and lecturer Ben Kele who spoke on 'Is industry unnecessarily displacing Mother Nature? - Matching appropriate technology to the site'.

Other CQU representatives at the event included Jordanna Bembridge, Ross Percival and Thomas Aubron.

PhotoID:5600, Audience members at the event
Audience members at the event