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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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Barramundi set to move from local creeks 

Published on 12 December, 2002 

In a bid to increase Barramundi fish stocks, the features of their habitats have been surveyed to allow key environmental features to be adopted in local drains.

PhotoID:499 Central Queensland University Education students have joined forces with Department of Primary Industries biologist Gary Thorncraft to help duplicate the Barramundi habitat. To build an understanding for the waterways, Environmental Science lecturer Judith Wake said students mapped every metre of two creeks for 50 metres.

“Hopefully this information will tell us how a drain can be adapted into a real creek,” she said.

“The students conducted surveys of the vegetation and structure of the creek.” “This data provides details for converting a drain into a creek that would make it a more natural environment for barramundi.” The Education students also developed posters detailing their results suitable for students in upper primary to middle secondary year levels.

PhotoID:500 Photos: CQU Environmental Science lecturer Dr Judith Wake (front, right) discusses the results of recent creek surveys with Education students Anne-Marie Russell-pace, Cassandra Chapman and Cheree Ferguson.