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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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Visiting professor focuses on kids affected by domestic violence 

Published on 05 December, 2007 

CQU, in conjunction with the Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research, will host visiting speaker Professor Cathy Humphreys, Alfred Felton Chair of Child and Family Welfare, University of Melbourne, this Friday, December 7, from 11am to 12 noon at CQU Mackay.

(The presentation will also be video-linked to 18 sites across Queensland including, Cairns, Mareeba, Townsville, Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Gladstone, Emerald, Mt Isa, Longreach, Nambour, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Toowoomba, Roma and St George.)

Professor Humpreys' FREE presentation will focus on Responding to the protective needs of children affected by domestic violence.

Prof. Humphreys will examine the challenges for policy and practice for child protection in the context of domestic violence.

She will argue for the re-conceptualisation of domestic and family violence to acknowledge that such violence is a direct and indirect attack on the mother-child relationship.

For further details contact Annie Webster a.webster@cqu.edu.au ph: 4940 7834.

Video-linked sites

North Queensland

Cairns: Family Law Registry, Level 4, 104 Grafton St

Mareeba: Mareeba Hospital Meeting Room

Townsville: Family Law Registry, Level 2, 143 Walker Street

Townsville: Heatley Secondary College, Corner Fulham & Hanlon Street, Heatley

Central Queensland

Rockhampton: Central Queensland University, Building 33, Room G.14

Bundaberg: Central Queensland University, Building 403, Room G.24

Gladstone: Central Queensland University, Martin Hansen Building Room 1.03a

Western Queensland

Emerald: Administration Building, Agricultural College

Mt Isa: Centre for Rural and Remote Health, Lecture Room 3, 100 Joan Street

Longreach: Anglicare, 15 Pelican Street

Southern Queensland

Nambour: Department of Communities, 91-95 Howard Street

Brisbane: Legal Aid Qld, 44 Herschel St

Brisbane: Level 1, 175 Eagle Street, (between Customs House and Riverside Centre)

Gold Coast Hospital: Room 4, Education Centre, Corner Little & Nerang Streets

Gold Coast Mental Health Service: Robina Hospital, H Block Training Room, Baybery Lane

South-Western Queensland

Toowoomba: The Advocacy & Support Centre, 19a Russell Street

Roma: Primary Health Care Unit, 59-61 Arthur Street

St George: Care Balonne, 21-23 Beardmore Place