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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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Driving Mr Rupert 

Published on 03 March, 2011 

Move over Driving Miss Daisy, CQUniversity had its own precious cargo to chauffeur around.

Known to University staff as Mr Rupert, the skeleton made his maiden voyage to Mackay, just in time to meet his new colleagues at the Medical Imaging and Sonography laboratories.

PhotoID:10524, Mr Rupert is strapped in for the ride of his life.
Mr Rupert is strapped in for the ride of his life.Mr Rupert's custodian and chauffeur, Graeme Boyle said Rupert was not just any bag of bones.

He was donated to the University when Dr Thomas Lynch's pathology laboratory closed down in Rockhampton a few years ago.

Since then he has spent time in a CQUniversity staff meeting room and, according to Graeme, "it's a good thing he's generally quiet". However, now he has found a new purpose.

With the commencement of our new Medical Imaging and Sonography programs in Mackay this year, our Technical Services Manager Sue Ferguson thought Rupert would be a valuable resource in the new labs.

So, along with a range of other new lab equipment, Graeme and Sue delivered him to Mackay last week.

PhotoID:10525, No bones about it ... Graeme Boyle drives Mr Rupert to his new home in Mackay.
No bones about it ... Graeme Boyle drives Mr Rupert to his new home in Mackay.

According to Graeme, Mr Rupert may have some backbone, but he really was a ‘gutless' back seat driver.

"He was a very attentive traveller and had little chance to contribute his backseat driving tips due to the incessant chatter coming from Sue in the front seat," Graeme joked.