Archive
Grant boosts paramedic capacity on Mid North Coast
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003The paramedic course at CSU in Port Macquarie has received a boost with the announcement of a grant from the Hunter and Coast Interdisciplinary Clinical Training Network.
CSU students forge new ties with Mid North Coast employers
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003Four students from CSU at Port Macquarie are set to become the first to benefit from a new agreement between CSU's Faculty of Business and the Mid North Coast Local Health District.
CSU experts tackle live export issue
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003ABC's Four Corners program on Monday 30 May showed Australian cattle being subjected to inhumane treatment in Indonesian abattoirs and has prompted calls for an immediate ban on live exports to Indonesia. Experts from Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences are well placed to comment on the welfare of animals, meat produce market and the live export industry.
US mass shootings - change unlikely
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003The tragic mass shooting of small children and teachers at an elementary school in the US state of Connecticut last Friday is unlikely to result in any significant change to gun laws or gun culture in the US, according to a CSU law enforcement academic.
'Democratic duties' political philosophy forum in Canberra
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003As Australia approaches a federal election with a changed Labor Party leadership and Prime Minister, CSU will convene a political philosophy forum in Canberra next week.
Why Australia's top spy spoke publicly
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003A CSU intelligence studies academic says there were many motivating factors for the Director General of the Australian Security and Intelligence Service to speak publicly last week for the first time since the organisation was established 60 years ago.
CSU researchers enhance life-saving medical invention
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003CSU researchers have made it easier for doctors to measure the strength of a patient's heart, potentially saving thousands of lives. The world leaders in the field of clinical haemodynamics have enhanced the practical use of a life-saving medical invention by developing an index to assist clinical staff to monitor and intervene in a range of cardiovascular conditions.
Why corporate sharks swim free
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003A CSU law and fraud experts says that it's no secret that US law enforcement and regulators have gone soft on Wall Street executives and others at the centre of the global financial crisis, and he warns that failure to prosecute creates no disincentives for committing fraud or white-collar crime.
Teaching students to experience Solomon Islands
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003Ten third- and fourth-year CSU teaching students will spend three weeks from the end of October in the Solomon Islands gaining valuable professional experience to enhance their pre-service teacher education training.
Governor-General highlights need for careers in agriculture
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003The importance of careers in agriculture, as highlighted by Her Excellency the Honourable Ms Quentin Bryce, AC, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, in her Australia Day address, has been echoed by a CSU academic and a graduate.