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Launch of the New NSW HSC Online website


In recent months, much media and political attention has been focused on the social and economic disadvantages of regional Australia.

A lesson in community living from the developing world


We have lost what it means to be a community in developed countries,
says a social work educator from Charles Sturt University.

Empty plate for food researchers to fill


Agriculture and food researchers from around Australia, New Zealand and the United States attending the Agrifood Research Network meeting in the small NSW town of Tumbarumba this week have been told there is a research vacuum to fill as policy makers grapple with new problems.

Death debate for national conference


Controversial euthanasia advocate, Dr Philip Nitschke, will face anti-euthanasia campaigner Kevin Andrews at the 5th National Conference for Reasoning and Decision Making at Charles Sturt University.

Small things, big problems?


If powerful computers of the future behave in the same way as humans, will they have moral rights and responsibilities?

The ACCC & the Trade Practices Act


By Professor Allan Fels, Chairman, Australian Competition and The stated aim of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (the Act) is to enhance the welfare of Australians through the promotion of competition and fair trading and consumer protection (section 2 of the Act).

Finding a voice for refugees in Australia


Historically Australia has had an impressive record in assisting refugees but in more recent times refugees and asylum seekers have endured a rapidly changing profile in Australian society.

Refugee conference highlights Australian policy


Australia's refugee policy and current issues and research on asylum seekers will be examined by academics and human rights organisations at a national conference in Sydney on Friday 20 October.

Reconciling through Vision


Bald Hill, in the centre of Charles Sturt University's Wagga Wagga Campus, will become a future focus of traditional Aboriginal education and national reconciliation thanks to a community project led by the University.

CSU human rights researcher condemns Government's UN policy


Charles Sturt University human rights researcher and social justice lecturer Dr Sharon Pickering has criticised the Australian Government's decision to call for a complete review of the United Nations Treaty System.

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