Consumers who use expert wine reviews to inform their purchase decisions are more likely to choose better wine than those who rely only on price as an indicator of quality, according to research.

A strange alliance has reignited the carbon pricing debate in Australia, and led to clear differences in policies to reduce the national production of greenhouse gases.

Australia needs to significantly cut its carbon emissions now if it is keep pace with the most recent announcement from the United States, especially as climate change is proceeding faster than first thought, a CSU climate expert claims.

Some Australian businesses are using environmental, social and governance reporting as a smokescreen to protect themselves from class action lawsuits according to CSU researchers.

A Pulitzer Prize-nominated African-American author and business leader will help to launch a new Charles Sturt University (CSU) Indigenous business research initiative in Sydney on Wednesday 28 May.

Four small schools in the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu will benefit from the donation by Charles Sturt University (CSU) staff of books for pupils and teachers.

A "serious electoral gamble and unequivocal statement in the politics of class warfare" is how CSU political scientist Associate Professor Dominic O'Sullivan describes the Abbott government's first Budget.

With the federal Budget due to be handed down by Treasurer the Hon. Joe Hockey, MP in Canberra on Tuesday 13 May, CSU has a number of economics experts available for comment.

A Charles Sturt University (CSU) lecturer in Gerontology, Ms Robin Harvey, believes the most vulnerable older Australians would be hardest hit by any move to increase the pension age.