A CSU expert has called on governments and health authorities to stress the severity and danger of preventable childhood diseases to parents, to improve immunisation rates.

CSU student Ms Laura Peel has won gold at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships in Kreischberg, Austria.

Regional Australians are not getting back from Medicare and private health insurance what they are putting into it, according to a Productivity Commission report released earlier this year. In a literal case of adding insult to injury, it is estimated that about $220 million a year of the Medicare levy collected in non-urban areas flows back to metropolitan services. Why?

How can there be a correlation between free speech and the eradication of poverty?

The pharmaceutical business is often described as one of the the most profitable industries on the planet. And Australian drug prices are amongst the most expensive in the world.

With one in five Australians expected to experience some form of mental illness during their life, researchers at Charles Sturt University have examined one of society’s most vulnerable groups – the children of mental health patients - and how to prevent mental illness from being passed from their parents to them.

A hundred years ago, Sydneysiders were concerned about a lack of water, congestion in the CBD, the problems caused by public-private development and a severe skills shortage. Sound familiar? According to Dr Clive Beauchamp, Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Social Sciences and Liberal Studies School, "in some ways, public expectations never seem to change".

Charles Sturt University has a range of experts available for comment on the threat that avian influenza (strain H5N1) poses for Australia.

Leading experts on a range of global issues from East Timor to genetically modified food, bioethics, cloning, policing and media ethics will converge in Canberra tomorrow at the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics Sixth National Conference.