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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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Masters student gains OAM for war research 

Published on 28 June, 2005 

Vanessa Seekee, due to graduate from CQU later this year with an MA in history, recently was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for services to the World War II veterans of Torres Strait.

PhotoID:2055 Her Masters was a history of the World War II airbase at Horn Island, Torres Strait. It explored the anomaly of Horn Island being classified a non-operational area during the war, arguing that the designation was wrong, and that the men and women who served there should be given due recognition, the physical measure of which is the 1939-45 Star Medal.

She played an important role in the lobby that persuaded the Commonwealth to award Torres Strait veterans the Star Medal, thus giving them access to full veterans' medical benefits.

Vanessa recently featured in The Courier Mail (June 13) soon after her Queen's Birthday award was announced.

Ms Seekee arrived in the Torres Strait in 1994 as a teacher but now curates the Horn Island museum and conducts World War II tours.

PhotoID:2056 In 2000 she was given the honour of carrying the Olympic Torch on Thursday Island and contributed to a TV documentary on the veterans.

Details from s.mullins@cqu.edu.au or Vanessa via gtsr@bigpond.com .

Photo: Vanessa Seekee OAM in front of the Torres Strait Heritage Museum on Horn Island.