The Vice-Chancellor of Charles Sturt University Professor Ian Goulter today welcomed the support of Orange Mayor John Davis and Orange City Council for CSU’s plans to create a new School of Dentistry and Oral Health in inland NSW.

Most tourist posters portray the Pacific Island kingdom of Tonga with happy people swimming in crystal clear tropical waters that lap on white sandy shores.

Plans to stop recruiting doctors from overseas will worsen rural doctor shortages, according to Mr Mark Burdack, Executive Director of the Murray Darling Medical School initiative.

CSU welcomed the announcement that the new role of Rural Health Commissioner will be created if the Coalition wins government.

The Nationals failure to deliver on the 2013 election commitment to establish the Murray Darling Medical School was highlighted today with the announcement of funding for a new medical school in Gosford.

CSU Vice-Chancellor Professor Andrew Vann expressed disappointment tonight after the Murray Darling Medical School was once again overlooked in the Federal Budget.

A CSU academic has criticised the State Government for failing to ensure that older people in nursing homes are cared for by Registered Nurses (RNs).

Independent research has found the proposed Murray Darling Medical School (MDMS) would be a $66 million dollar shot in the arm for the regional economies of Wagga Wagga, Orange and Bendigo.

A CSU academic is renewing his call for Australian governments to take preventative action in Australia to curb the diabetes epidemic.