Rockhampton residents will be treated to public events by nationally and internationally renowned authors this month.

Tickets are running out fast for world-renowned scientist, environmentalist, author and broadcaster David Suzuki’s public address at CQU Rockhampton this Thursday, October 5, where he will promote his latest book: 'David Suzuki - The Autobiography'.

The address will be from 6.30pm at the University’s large lecture theatre in building 32 with an admission charge of $5 (tickets are available from CQU Rockhampton Bookshop – there will be no tickets at the door). There will be an opportunity to have copies of the book signed.

The latest book is a story of Dr David Suzuki's passion for the planet.

He has received consistently high acclaim for his 30 years of award-winning work in broadcasting, explaining the complexities of science in a compelling, easily understood way. He is well known to millions as the host of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's popular science television series, 'The Nature of Things'.

The author of 43 books, David Suzuki is recognized as a world leader in sustainable ecology.

For details visit www.davidsuzuki.org/ . CQU Bookshop has the main range of David Suzuki books in stock. Details are at: http://bookshop.cqu.edu.au .

Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward will deliver a free public address entitled 'What women research and what we need to know', at CQU Rockhampton from 12.30pm on Wednesday, October 11.

Bookings for the talk and for the optional luncheon afterwards (for which a charge of $12 applies) can be made via Rebeka Freckleton on 4930 9493, or r.freckleton@cqu.edu.au or at CQU building 18 G.04.

Pru Goward became federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner in July 2001. Following the introduction of the Age Discrimination Act in 2004, she was also appointed Commissioner Responsible for Age Discrimination.

Commissioner Goward is an economist by training and a broadcaster by practice, having spent 19 years with ABC TV and Radio as a current affairs journalist and later as a political reporter and commentator.

She is best known for her efforts to promote a national scheme of paid maternity leave and a better balance of work and family.

Commissioner Goward is considered by both 'The Australian' and the 'Australian Financial Review' newspapers to be one of our most influential Australians, her speeches and columns are widely reproduced in journals and books and in 2001 she was awarded a Centenary Medal for services to journalism and women's rights.

She has also co-written a biography of Prime Minister John Howard with her husband David Barnett and 'A Business of Your Own', a study of successful women in business.

Image above: Cover of David Suzuki: The Autobiography.

Photo left: Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward.