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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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Uni grant helps rescue 106-year-old Chinese house and artefacts 

Published on 01 March, 2006 

Thanks to a CQU grant, the Rockhampton Chinese Association is undertaking a ‘renovation rescue’ on a 106–year-old Chinese building and its artefacts.

Joss House on Bedford Street North Rockhampton has witnessed some quiet periods over the years, particularly when the Chinese culture and customs were frowned upon in the region. The building and its collection of Chinese artefacts have survived years of hardship, times of suppression and extreme weather.

PhotoID:2501 In recent years, with the influx of CQU’s international students to the region, the building and the local Chinese culture have been given a breath of life.

Today, Joss House is being resurrected with people gathering for renovation and landscaping projects, cultural maintenance and festivities.

Joss House is also the site for a collection of Chinese artefacts dated 1900.

The receipt of a $3230 Regional Centre of the Arts (RCotA) grant – a CQU initiative – has enabled the purchase of brushes, paints and other basic materials to begin the preservation.

Rockhampton Chinese Association President Dorothy Khoo was thrilled to have received support from the Life Be In It - Work for the Dole participants with the renovation as well as participation by other local businesses.

In the last two years, RCotA has also sponsored two other Chinese projects – Stephen Lin’s (Cathay Culture Promoters) photographic exhibitions entitled \'Cultural Roots\' and \'Worship in Asian Folklores\'. Both depict the spiritual sites and worship objects here in Rockhampton, as well as in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China. Stephen was also involved in the initial proposal for the Joss House project.

The RCotA has been established by Central Queensland University to encourage the development of all forms of the Arts in Central Queensland. The Centre provides a liaison role between CQU and the Arts community of Central Queensland and recommends to the Vice-Chancellor proposed budgets for grants to support approved arts projects.

Photo: Heart of the Altar found in Joss House. By Stephen Lin.