What 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.

It could be described as CSU’s quiet achiever.

A 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.

A research project that has spanned eleven years, and across four regional cities, is giving hope to diabetes sufferers internationally.

The communities of CSU and Bathurst are saddened by the death of Mr Bob Dengate, a leading teacher educator, education innovator, and local radio presenter.

Charles 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.

CSU 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.

As 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.

CSU has congratulated the Liberal-National Coalition Government on its New South Wales election win at the weekend.