Central Queensland Multicultural Fair, in association with CQU and ABC Radio 4RK will sponsor an international photo contest celebrating the diversity of people and cultures in rural communities around the world.

The contest is free to enter and finalists and winners are to be acknowledged in State of the Arts, the leading Australian performing and visual arts magazine and website, in local newspapers, on the ABC, and exhibited in a public gallery located in Central Queensland. Photographers, including amateurs, are invited to submit their entries by 23 July 2002.

“Australia is celebrating 2002 as the year of the Outback. We’re expanding on that theme by inviting photographers from all over the world to share with us their images of similar outback-life in their own country,” said Mike Donahue, a CQU spokesman.

Winners will receive quality digital photo equipment and will be announced at the Central Queensland Multicultural Fair and Central Queensland University Open Day at Rockhampton Sunday 11 August.

More details on the contest and entry forms will be available by the CQU Community Relations office after 1 May.