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.

Mutual trust built between major fire events creates better communication between communities and fire management agencies, whereas mistrust creates active barriers according to an international study involving CSU  that included major bushfire events in Victoria.

A CSU scientist is urging people to spend ten minutes in the garden or bush this week looking out for native pollinator insects.

Plans for an Australia-China free trade agreement and greater banking deregulation in China will benefit all Australians, says CSU economist Professor John Hicks.

"The last of the true Liberal leaders," is how CSU politics lecturer, Dr Troy Whitford has described former Australian Prime Minister Mr Malcolm Fraser AC who has died aged 84.

Queensland beef producers are willing to participate in schemes that offer payments for environmental services, but a lack of support with paperwork is holding them back says CSU social researcher Associate Professor Vaughan Higgins.

Now that all states have signed up, Charles Sturt University (CSU) wetland ecologist Professor Max Finlayson said it's time to focus on putting the Murray Darling Basin Plan into action."If this means the politicking has been put to bed and the real activity can start then we should be dancing in the rains, or on the plains," said Professor Finlayson, the Director of CSU's Institute for Land Water and Society.

CSU researchers working with Australia's largest almond producer have found that some native birds are not simply pests as first thought, but provide important financial benefits to the almond grower.

The current extreme heatwave conditions across southern Australia should be no surprise, says climate change commentator and CSU academic, Professor Kevin Parton.