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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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CQU's Gasser among Sheffield's merry men 

Published on 10 May, 2007 

CQU staff member Mark Gasser, a concert pianist and lecturer at Mackay's Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music, is included in a list of over 200 'famous or infamous' Sheffielders, including Robin Hood (said to be from Loxley in Sheffield).

Mark's listing in the the document compiled by Sheffield City Council explains he is a pianist who played with Sheffield Youth Orchestra.

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Mark Gasser 

The document explains: "He graduated from the Birmingham Conservatoire with the highest marks in its history. He is one of only 6 pianists who have ever attempted Ronald Stevenson's Passacaglia on DSCH - an 80 minute set of variations on four notes. He played at New York's Carnegie Hall shortly after the attack on the World Trade Centre in 2001".

Mark is in interesting company, including pop and rock bands Pulp, Human League, Def Leppard, ABC and Artic Monkeys, goalkeeper Gordon Banks, actors Sean Bean and Donald Pleasence, runner Sebastian Coe, London underground designer Sir John Fowler, comedian Michael Palin and English cricket captain Michael Vaughan,