As 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.

It might be morally permissible to prevent uncommitted, or 'careless', voters from voting, according to a CSU academic.

For 18-year-old Stuart Dundas, of Faulconbridge, NSW, starting university this month will be particularly exciting.

Is the English syllabus taught in Australian schools being dumbed down by "rubbish" post modern literature as suggested by the Prime Minister John Howard in Brisbane today.

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).

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.

Racial and religious intolerance is nothing new…it might be hard for Generation X to believe, but it wasn’t so long ago that Protestants looked down on Catholics who were enemies with the Freemasons…and they were almost all prejudiced against Chinese immigrants, according to Dr Robert Tierney, lecturer in the School of Marketing and Management at Charles Sturt University (CSU).

Charles Sturt University (CSU) academic Professor Lyn Gorman is among a select group of international scholars invited to address the annual Oxford Round Table in the United Kingdom in August.

"My advice was to give two votes per farm, initiate time-limited leadership positions, and introduce gender awareness training for industry bodies. The most radical recommendation I gave was bodies that do not represent gender equity should not be given government funding. Now that is the one that will really shake them up." Professor Margaret Alston, Director of Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Centre for Rural Social Research is talking about her recommendations to the Federal Government’s Inquiry into Women’s Representation on Rural and Regional Bodies of Influence.