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Mine research investigates sustainable solution
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003What happens to the excavated waste rock at one of Australia’s significant mine sites when the mine closes? This topic isn’t being taken lightly by Newcrest Mining at Cadia Valley, 20 kilometres southwest of the city of Orange in NSW where PhD student in Charles Sturt University's (CSU) School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences, Mr Allan Adams is investigating a sustainable solution.
Healthy ten year track record for nutrition and dietetics
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003It could be described as CSU’s quiet achiever.
PM's proposed carbon tax - a slow compromise
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003A CSU academic says the carbon tax proposal announced yesterday by The Hon. Julia Gillard, MP, Prime Minister of Australia, is a compromise that will be slow to provide the economy with the price incentives needed to reduce the nation's greenhouse gas emissions.
Collaborative research helps diabetics
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003A research project that has spanned eleven years, and across four regional cities, is giving hope to diabetes sufferers internationally.
Disability insurance highlights international commitment
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003Australia should introduce a national disability insurance scheme as it supports the commitment the nation made when the then Federal government ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability in July 2008, according to a CSU academic in health services.
Sad loss of well-respected CSU education academic
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003The communities of CSU and Bathurst are saddened by the death of Mr Bob Dengate, a leading teacher educator, education innovator, and local radio presenter.
CSU's TAFE-University Centres bid progresses to Stage Two
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003Charles Sturt University Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Professor Ross Chambers, welcomed the announcement by the Minister for Education Employment and Workplace Relations, The Hon. Chris Evans, MP, that its bid to establish new TAFE-University Centres in Parkes, Wangarratta, Port Macquarie, Griffith and Deniliquin, and expand its Centre for Indigenous Studies in Dubbo, will progress to Stage Two of the Structural Adjustment Funding round.
Water, not carbon, focus for climate debate
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003A visiting international academic hosted by CSU throws new light on climate change by asserting the gradual breakdown of the Earth's water cycles caused by land clearing is playing a major role in climate change.
CSU welcomes NSW Labor Government support for medical school
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003CSU Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Ian Goulter, today welcomed the formal public support of the NSW Labor Government for the establishment of a new medical school in rural NSW.
CSU academic cautions as US-NATO coalition attacks Libya
Wednesday, 1 Jan 2003As United States-led coalition forces have launched attacks on Libya on the eighth anniversary (20 March) of the invasion and occupation of Iraq, a CSU academic cautions that the people of Libya, like the rest of the region, face many more challenges.