A Charles Sturt University researcher is exploring how the use of three senses in the virtual world could help humans more easily absorb information and more importantly establish patterns and trends in large mounts of computer data.

Charles Sturt University (CSU) ecologist Dr Robyn Watts is no stranger to wading her way through Australia’s degraded river systems especially when each step gives her and fellow researchers a better working model for the restoration of our waterways.

Free speech receives much attention in academic and public arenas as an important right in liberal democratic societies, especially on political issues. New research from Charles Sturt University suggests, however, that free speech in the Australian workplace may be more limited than we think.

With the unsettled start to an uncertain century, the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics seeks to provide some answers to ethical problems in the modern world.

The attractiveness of Australia’s eastern seaboard as a place to live isn’t confined to the majority of Australians. A leading CSU ecologist says the majority of native fauna species also call the east coast home, prompting him to call for major changes in future suburban and conservation planning to ensure more harmonious relations between man and native animals.

For the past five years, the Australian Federal Government has said it might make small businesses exempt from the current unfair dismissal laws, which were introduced by the previous Labor government. The Coalition government says these laws are stifling jobs growth. But do small businesses really want this change?

"No jury can declare a man guilty unless it's SURE.”

Dissenting juror number 8 played by famous US actor Henry Fonda in the 1957 film Twelve Angry Men.