A joint Charles Sturt University and CSIRO research team has been recognised for significantly advancing the sustainable management of Australia's water resources, specifically within the irrigation sector.

Although national agribusiness performance showed an overall decline in the June quarter, the outlook in September was for a major improvement, according to the third quarterly report on the Westpac & Charles Sturt University Agribusiness Index.

Charles Sturt University released a proposal to staff today (Wednesday 11 July) to strengthen its agricultural profile as the national University of inland Australia.

Prime Minister John Howard’s $10 billion National Plan for Water Security is missing two essential ingredients – details on how public participation will be achieved and an environmental perspective, according to a Charles Sturt University academic.

Drought conditions continue to exert pressure on Australian agribusinesses, yet the sector is showing promising signs of resilience with 60 per cent of farmers confident about the year ahead, according to the second quarterly Westpac & Charles Sturt University Agribusiness Index.

A major national conference looking at the challenge of managing streams and rivers for the future will be held this month in Albury on the banks of the Murray River at the NSW-Victorian border.

Sales performance in the Central West outperformed the rest of regional NSW this quarter, according to the Reliance Credit Union Central West Business Survey for the March quarter 2007.

Charles Sturt University (CSU) will host a visit by a delegation from German and Austrian universities on Thursday 15 and Friday 16 March as a result of an agreement CSU signed last year with the European Study Centre in Bretten (ESCB), Germany.

Tasmania and the Northern Territory have reported positive agribusiness performance while South Australia and Western Australia have performed the worst in the first Westpac and Charles Sturt University Agribusiness Index.