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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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Salinity researchers visit Plant Science 

Published on 10 October, 2003 

CQU's Plant Sciences Group recently hosted a visit by 80 salinity researchers, policy makers, primary producers and advocates taking part in the 9th National Conference on Productive Use and Rehabilitation of Saline Land.

PhotoID:1011 The visitors observed on-going salinity research in the Plant Sciences Group's Rockhampton facility, which focuses on the novel technique of improving plants’ ability to exclude salts by aerating the root zone, using aerated water through subsurface drip irrigation.

The CQU research was highly praised by the national salinity experts, including Dr Ed J. Barrett-Lennard.

The experiment on forced aeration of crop root zone is the first of its kind in Australia and CQU Plants Sciences Group is the leading institution for the root zone aeration of subsurface drip irrigated crops in Australia. The tour was briefed by Plant Sciences Group Doctoral Fellow Surya Bhattarai, honours student Lance Perdergast and Associate Professor Kerry Walsh.