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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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Meet Dave, who does remember the 1960s! 

Published on 17 February, 2009 

Dave Cardnell sailed to Australia as a '10-pound Pom' a mere 40 years and 1 week ago.

He didn't have a job lined up but (months earlier) had been interviewed for a teaching position by staff at Queensland House in London.

PhotoID:6823, Dave Cardnell still has a youthful outlook
Dave Cardnell still has a youthful outlook

Arriving in Sydney in February 1969, he discovered he had a job waiting for him in Rockhampton. Catching the Rocky Mail train was then the quickest way to get here.

Dave began teaching at our predecessor institution, the Queensland Institute of Technology (Capricornia), in Bolsover Street (the building now occupied by TAFE).

Then as now - teaching has been his passion.

"Year after year, you might get older but the students stay young," he said.

"In just the flick of a finger it's been 40 years but this year's students will still be as young as the first years I taught back then in the 70s, 80s and 90s."

Dave, who is CQUniversity's longest-serving current staff member, has no plans for retirement as he still loves his work and is keenly awaiting the next batch of new students.