Research into the corruption risks of information technology, human rights in the workplace and appropriate responses to terrorism are just a few of the areas that have gained the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) a significant international standing.

A CSU ethicist has warned parents not to rely solely on information found on the Internet when deciding whether to vaccinate their children against common childhood diseases.

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.

Computer technology is changing so fast that government policy isn't keeping up, and society isn't sure what to do about it.

Controversial euthanasia advocate, Dr Philip Nitschke, will face anti-euthanasia campaigner Kevin Andrews at the 5th National Conference for Reasoning and Decision Making at Charles Sturt University.

Racial and religious intolerance is nothing new…it might be hard for Generation X to believe, but it wasn’t so long ago that Protestants looked down on Catholics who were enemies with the Freemasons…and they were almost all prejudiced against Chinese immigrants, according to Dr Robert Tierney, lecturer in the School of Marketing and Management at Charles Sturt University (CSU).

Charles Sturt University (CSU) academic Professor Lyn Gorman is among a select group of international scholars invited to address the annual Oxford Round Table in the United Kingdom in August.

"Increasingly, people are accessing information from the internet as their first primary source. So instead of people going and buying newspapers, they log onto the internet. But how credible is this information?" asks Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Dr Edward Spence, senior lecturer in moral philosophy and applied and professional ethics in the School of Communication.

Australia is ideally placed to lead the world in nurturing relationships between Christianity and Islam, according to Charles Sturt University (CSU) Professor of Theology, Reverend James Haire, who will deliver a public lecture in Orange on Saturday.