Australian Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan, will formally announce the allocation of $4.5 million to the construction of a high speed fibre optic network that will connect Charles Sturt University (CSU) Bathurst and Orange campuses into the Australian Research and Education Network (AREN).

The 'Go Back' television series recently broadcast on SBS highlights the ignorance to the plight of refugees around the world, but will do little to shift the community debate on policies and issues surrounding asylum seekers and refugees, says a CSU academic.

A memorial fund has been established to benefit future CSU theatre/media students following the premature death of Mr Blair Milan, a young CSU alumnus, actor and TV personality.

An ethicist at CSU says the mounting controversy about continuing revelations of illegal phone tapping by The News of the World newspaper in the United Kingdom is the product of three separate yet interacting issues.

A CSU media ethicist says the News of the World phone-tapping scandal in the United Kingdom has all the makings of 'perfect injustice', and Plato saw it coming.

A CSU academic cautions that the way the horrors of drug addiction and alcoholism become romanticised and turn prematurely deceased pop performers like Britain's Amy Winehouse into a mythical figure ignores the realities of her life and death, and the lessons that could be learned from them.

Saturday 24 September marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the album Nevermind by the band Nirvana, from Seattle, USA, which gave rise to the widely recognised rock 'n roll subset of 'grunge', the music deemed to have defined Generation X.

A journalism lecturer at CSU has been engaged to develop a communication strategy for a $25 million AusAid agricultural project in Timor-Leste.

Two CSU third-year journalism students have been awarded prestigious traineeships with Fairfax Media publications The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun Herald.