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Home > Latest News > Science & IT 07 Jul 2006
With ever-increasing pressures on Australia’s water resources, scientists are looking for ways to balance the needs of irrigators with those of the environment. Coal versus nuclear: the debate we have to have 03 Jul 2006
Should Australia have a nuclear industry? According to the Prime Minister John Howard, this is a debate we have to have. Dr Roderick Duncan is a lecturer in economics at Charles Sturt University (CSU). He says nuclear power is probably not economically feasible in a country like Australia. Mitchell Link to benefit CSU in learning, teaching and research 09 Jun 2006
Sir Thomas Mitchell would surely approve of the Mitchell Link, a new high speed fibre optic link which will greatly benefit the Bathurst and Orange campuses of Charles Sturt University (CSU). For the first time, the regionally-based University campuses will connect into the Australian Research and Education Network (AREN), which was established in 2002 to provide large bandwidth capabilities to the country’s universities. Media alert: Minister launches Mitchell Link 07 Jun 2006
Australian Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan, will formally announce the allocation of $4.5 million to the construction of a high speed fibre optic network that will connect Charles Sturt University (CSU) Bathurst and Orange campuses into the Australian Research and Education Network (AREN). 06 Jun 2006
In an historic step, the Orange Campus has been formally transferred to Charles Sturt University (CSU) from the University of Sydney. Striving for international excellence in urban water use 16 May 2006
International recognition of the city of Wagga Wagga as an urban centre, demonstrating excellence in water management is the goal of a new initiative launched during the week long water festival organised by Charles Sturt University and Wagga Wagga City Council. Egrets signal problems in wetlands 09 May 2006
Disturbing new research on the food of waterbirds suggests we may need to reconsider our policy on the management of carp. The real picture of the digital divide 01 May 2006
Older people, lower household incomes and levels of education are major factors that have created a “digital divide” in regional Australia, according to Charles Sturt University research carried out in the regional city of Albury on the NSW-Victoria border. $30 million investment in national wine research collaboration 19 Dec 2005
Australia’s peak wine research and funding bodies will join in a leading $30 million dollar research collaboration called the NWGIC Winegrowing Futures Initiative. 12 Dec 2005
Sugar could be an innovative alternative to herbicides and curb one of agriculture’s costly scourges, annual weeds. |
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