Dreams really do come true, thanks to CQU and its friends.

A casual conversation over dinner has made one of the seemingly unattainable dreams of "Project Kial" leader Tina Janssen, come true.

Tina and her partner Peter Brooks are passionate about the welfare of the endangered bridled nail tail wallaby species and , using their own money, have established a refuge on their property \"Kial\", near Marlborough.

There they work with the support from Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, CQU School of Chemical and Biomedical Sciences, the Work for the Dole program and a variety of overseas volunteers, who come and stay for varying lengths of time.

The numbers of bridled nail tails (Onychogalea fraenata), are down to only a little over 100, all in the Central Queensland area.

About 70 of those are to be found on \"Kial\".

Recently the CQU Community Program took a bus load of interested locals to see the work being done at Marlborough and they were handed a \"wish list\" of items urgently needed to facilitate the work being done there.

Out for a dinner a few nights later, Glenys Kirkwood, coordinator of CQU\'s Community Program, was chatting to Lynne Smith from Adnought Sheet Metal Fabrication in McLaughlin Street, Parkhurst, about the fact that a stainless steel examination and treatment table was needed to allow the program to proceed under sterile conditions.

Ms Smith and Adnought Sheet Metal made Tina\'s dream a reality on Thursday last week when a delighted Tina took delivery of her brand new stainless steel table from Adnought and large cooking pots, sleepings bags and blankets donated by CQU Community Program visitors.

\"I need to pinch myself as the purchase of such a beautiful table was far out of our reach,\" Tina said.

\"Now thanks to the generosity of Lynne and Adnought, we will be able to proceed with the immunology and other work we do in sterile conditions\".

\"Our volunteers and works, who come to us from as far as Scotland, Englad and America, will benefit from the cooking pots and blankets.

\"I am overwhelmed by people\'s generosity.\" If you would like to assist with the rescue of the endangered bridled nail tail wallaby and Project Kial, contact Tina on 0408 613 914 or email tina-janssen@bigpond.com .

Photo: Janelle Lowry of Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, Tina Janssen and Peter Brooks of \"Kial\", Marlborough, Lynne Smith of Adnoujght and Glenys Kirkwood of the CQU Community Program admire the new stainless stell examination table donated to the project.