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Ferret behaviour and welfare in Australia


The rising popularity of ferrets as pets in Australia has led a CSU student to search for more answers about their behaviour and welfare.

Climate change and healthy catchments


Climate change is expected to have a major impact on the health of rivers in South Eastern Australia, particularly in the Murray-Darling Basin. The emphasis to date seems to have been on environmental flows as a means of keeping our rivers healthy, but what are the other options and are they practical and cost-effective?

Loss of a teacher, researcher and mentor


CSU is mourning the loss of a long serving staff member and food scientist, Associate Professor Samson Agboola.

Rare brain surgery to save puppy


Weighing less than a kilogram, ’Louie’ the ten-week-old silky maltese terrier isn’t big but he has a fighting spirit.

Social and economic impacts of Basin water plan


A CSU resources expert has discussed the trade-offs involved in the proposed transfer of water to the environment in the proposed Murray Darling Basin Plan in a public lecture.

Sheep measles research to benefit livestock industry


Sheep producers are being asked to help researchers from CSU find out more about sheep measles, a widespread problem that imposes avoidable costs on the meat industry.

Life and death leads student to CSU


Bushfires change Australian landscapes and they can also change lives forever.

CSU vet students play active role in bird flu containment


Two veterinary science students at CSU put their training into practice helping authorities contain an outbreak of Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza on a commercial duck farm in Victoria.

Call on agricultural industries to address graduate decline


A leading academic has appealed for a ‘concerted effort for change’ within the agricultural industry to turnaround the significant decline in agricultural graduates from Australian universities.

CSU races ahead in drug studies for horses


There is a clearer picture for veterinarians of how performance horses absorb, metabolise and excrete a dozen common therapeutic drugs following a four-year federally-funded research project involving CSU.

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