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.

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 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.

Graduation time and celebrations are growing on the Border, with CSU this year holding four graduation ceremonies in Albury from Thursday morning, 28 April.

An endangered native fish will be introduced to artificial wetlands on CSU's Albury-Wodonga Campus in a bid to conserve the species and allow them to breed up for their reintroduction into major inland rivers in the Murray Darling Basin.

The Gillard Labor government is due to bring down the 2011 federal budget next Tuesday 10 May. CSU has experienced commentators to provide considered analysis of the budget.

The Prime Minister’s announcement of carbon tax exemptions for families and small businesses in purchasing petrol is nothing new, but sure to cause controversy, says CSU climate change expert, Professor Kevin Parton.

Thai voters are more interested on the Prime Minister-elect’s next moves rather than the fact she is due to become the nation’s first female Prime Minister, says CSU political commentator and expert, Dr Troy Whitford.

A major global report co-authored by a leading CSU academic highlights healthy ecosystems as the basis for sustainable water resources and stable food security for people around the world, including Australia.