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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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Film focuses on aboriginal cricket team 

Published on 02 May, 2003 

Central Queensland University documentary filmmaker Liz Huf has bowled the right ball with her latest film adventure about the first aboriginal cricket team.

PhotoID:626 Ms Huf scored an interview with former Australian Test cricket captain Ian Chappell about his support for and recognition of the first aboriginal cricket team to tour overseas.

Featuring in Liz’s documentary is the story of the team’s coach Tom Wills. Wills is the father of Australian football, was a champion colonial cricketer and survived the largest massacre of whites by aborigines at his father’s property near Springsure in Central Queensland in 1863.

Despite this, Ms Huf said Wills was still friendly with the aborigines in his home state of Victoria and helped coach the team that toured England almost 10 years before the first official test team left these shores.

The one-hour documentary is currently in the final stages of editing by Peter Lawrence at the Multimedia Design Centre here at CQU.

Photo: Liz Huf chats with former Australian Test cricket captain Ian Chappell.