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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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Brisbane Horror Fans Guests at 'Rocky' event 

The originators of Brisbane's 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' tribute cast have agreed to be ambassadors to Rockhampton's version of the interactive movie event - Horrors in Rocky.

Kristian Fletcher and Danielle Johnson and their fellow performers have built up a pro-am industry in Brisbane by staging tribute events for 'Rocky Horror' and other movie and music favourites.

PhotoID:1089 Working as 'Able Productions' and 'Cards 4 Sorrow', they spend almost every weekend in costume leading audiences in sing-a-long tributes. Their Rockhampton visit has been made possible by CQU Travelcrew.

The 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' movie screenings with live performers - dubbed 'Horrors in Rocky' - are back again at Lee Kernaghan's Great Western Hotel bullring.

Around 800 people enjoyed last year's inaugural event, and this year's rendition will be at 7.30pm and 10pm on Saturday, September 20.

The movie shows feature live performances and audience participation led by Bachelor of Performing Arts students from CQU's Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music.

Co-organiser Barbara Harwood, from Rockhampton Tourist and Business Information, said the event would also be a 30th anniversary celebration of the birth of Rocky Horror as a stage show in London in 1973.

Ms Harwood said that, since the success of the inaugural shows, inquiries had come from as far afield as Germany and throughout Australia.

"Where else can you see Rocky Horror in a bullring but in Rocky," she said. ENDS Details: Barbara Harwood 4922 2855 or Kristian Fletcher 0408 078 259