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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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Dr Webster provides 'a country viewpoint' 

Published on 12 September, 2005 

CQU history lecturer Dr Barbara Webster last week provided 'A Country Viewpoint' to ABC Radio National's Bush Telegraph program.

Below is a short version of the transcript available at:.

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Rockhampton might be the Beef Capital of Australia but we're definitely not 'country'.

That's how I react to media reporters and others who label our city as 'rural', or worse, 'remote'.

Don't they know the language? Don't they know their geography? 'Rural' is 'in the bush', the opposite of 'urban'; 'remote' is 'a long way from anywhere'. Rockhampton has a population of 60,000; it's 25km from the coast, and only a short plane trip to Brisbane. That's not 'rural' to me and certainly not 'remote'.

Perhaps these misperceptions come from southerners who think civilisation ends at the Sunshine Coast.

They see Rockhampton as a stop-over on a 4x4 safari into the Deep North or the retirement caravan trip around Australia. Perhaps the nickname - Rocky - is the problem. Rocky conjures up pictures of a rough frontier town with dust and flies and, of course, cattle.