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Science and technology<br />
Apart from the primitive efforts of a few early adopters, the<br />
Internet essentially didn’t exist in 1992. Monthly Internet traffic<br />
was a mere four terabytes and all the data traversing the global net<br />
totalled 48 terabytes. (Today, YouTube alone streams 48 terabytes of<br />
data every 21 seconds.) The first Internet browser program went on sale<br />
which later transformed the World Wide Web. Four gigabytes of flash<br />
memory cost a whopping $500,000, meaning a hypothetical iPod Nano<br />
circa 1992 would have set back a Nirvana fan around $3 million. The world’s<br />
first multi-focal contact lens was invented by optical research scientist<br />
Stephen Newman from <strong>Queensland</strong>. The Fred Hollows Foundation was set<br />
up to continue the work of the surgeon who pioneered treatment of cataract<br />
blindness in Indigenous communities mu<br />
and developing countries.<br />
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Culture<br />
The Prime Minister was the subject<br />
of the Archibald Prize-winning portrait<br />
by Bryan Westwood. Australian of<br />
the Year was awarded to Aboriginal<br />
ambassador and Yothu Yindi lead<br />
singer Mandawuy Yunupingu, while<br />
the Young Australian of the Year was<br />
awarded to swimmer Kieren Perkins.<br />
Children’s author Paul Jennings<br />
won two Young Australians’ Best<br />
Book Awards for his Quirky Tails and<br />
Unmentionable!. The Australian Ballet<br />
commissioned its second Nutcracker –<br />
an Australian interpretation of the<br />
traditional story. It opened at the<br />
Sydney Opera House on March 12.<br />
CQUni’s 20th Anniversary<br />
Although founded in 1967 as the<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> Institute of Technology<br />
(Capricornia), 1992 was the year CQ<strong>University</strong><br />
gained full university status – that makes<br />
2012 its 20th anniversary as a university.<br />
However, it wasn’t its only name change.<br />
1967 – <strong>Queensland</strong> Institute of Technology<br />
1970 – Capricornia Institute of Advanced<br />
Education<br />
1990 – <strong>University</strong> College of <strong>Central</strong><br />
<strong>Queensland</strong><br />
1992 – <strong>University</strong> of <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
1994 – <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
2008 – CQ<strong>University</strong> Australia<br />
Some of the biggest milestones for the<br />
<strong>University</strong> over the past 20 years include:<br />
The opening of multiple campuses across<br />
Australia and overseas<br />
The arrival of the Internet to campus in 1994<br />
The introduction of online learning in the<br />
late 1990s<br />
Hosting the national CRC for rail research in<br />
the early 2000s<br />
Vice-Chancellor Glenice Hancock becoming<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>’s first female VC in 2001<br />
Winning State and National awards for its<br />
leadership in international student education<br />
Becoming the first Australian regional<br />
university to open CBD campuses in capital<br />
cities<br />
The State of Affairs<br />
A cost of living comparison<br />
The year 1992 The year 2012<br />
A stamp 45 cents 60 cents<br />
Petrol 62 cents a litre $1.49 a litre<br />
Milk $1 a litre $1 a litre<br />
Yearly inflation rate 3.03% 3.1%<br />
Reserve Bank 6% 4.25%<br />
interest rate<br />
Average annual $30,030 $68,791<br />
income<br />
Average monthly $424 $1464<br />
rent<br />
Average house price $224,000 $462,000<br />
*Figures correct at time of publication<br />
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