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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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Writers get chance to meet Miles Franklin winner 

Published on 13 November, 2008 

Rockhampton writers had the chance to meet a Miles Franklin Literary Award winner this week (Thursday, Nov 13), when acclaimed author Alexis Wright visited CQUniversity.

Wright, whose latest novel Carpentaria won the Miles Franklin and a range of other major awards, was a guest for the Occasional Conversation Series at CQUniversity's Nulloo Yumbah (Indigenous, Learning, Spirituality & Research) Centre.

PhotoID:6572, Alexis Wright on campus
Alexis Wright on campus

The visitor has also published award-winning short stories, an examination of alcohol restrictions in Tennant Creek, and several other works, both of fiction and non-fiction. She is a Waanji woman whose ancestral lands are in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria.

Interested people still have time to attend one of the workshops at Rockhampton Campus (building 32, room LG.15). From 3pm-4pm there will be a workshop on 'the writing process', including input from CQUniversity academics.

Details are available via (07) 4930-9250.

PhotoID:6573, The book cover
The book cover