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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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Sweet smell of success for wastewater innovator 

Published on 08 December, 2005 

CQU Plant Sciences PhD researcher Ben Kele has won a Queensland Regional Achievers Award for his development of an on-site wastewater treatment and re-use system.

PhotoID:2506 Mr Kele was one of five award winners recognised for making a difference in their community. He took home $2500, a trophy and was flown to Cairns for the awards dinner last Saturday December 2.

The purpose of the awards was to encourage, recognise, acknowledge and reward the valuable contribution individuals are making throughout Queensland.

Mr Kele’s win has put a spotlight on his patented Kele Effluent and Wastewater Treatment System (KEWT) – a unique system for the treatment of wastewater and effluent. The system was a major outcome from Mr Kele’s Masters thesis research.

KEWT uses a mixture of biological treatment systems and reuses effluent through a self-contained recirculatory form of sub-surface irrigation.

PhotoID:2507 Ben is currently working on a number of CQU projects including the restoration of the Murray Lagoon, sustainable housing developments, wastewater quality from regional hospitals and medical clinics and Queensland water catchment authorities.