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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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Agricultural workers at the bottom of the income chain 

Published on 13 March, 2003 

Paid agricultural workers occupy the bottom income strata in Australia, according to a Central Queensland lecturer.

PhotoID:554 Jim McAllister, Lecturer in Sociology with the School of Psychology and Sociology, said these workers also live “on the fringes”.

“They often live in the second house on the farm property, in the rural village, on the outskirts of the regional cities, and in the outer suburbs of the metropolitan areas,” he said Thursday.

Mr McAllister presented and reviewed data sourced from two conferences held in Brisbane last year.

Mr McAllister hopes to locate agricultural employees nationally and to define a context for further research on livelihoods and lifestyles of this seriously under-researched category of Australian workers.