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.

With a major French bank facing a major case of fraud worth AU$8.2 billion, a Charles Sturt University academic contends that banks with robust fraud controls does not mean they are actually working.

Inadequate school counselling services, and the need for formal training to guide students, compounds the controversial school chaplaincy program in Australia's public schools, says Dean of CSU's Faculty of Education, Professor Toni Downes.

A CSU academic says that the recent comments by former federal Labor cabinet minister, Mr Lindsay Tanner, which he also expresses in his new book, Sideshow: Dumbing Down Democracy, are worthy of serious consideration for the simple reason that they are, in part at least, probably true.

A senior theologian with CSU believes that Easter for Christians is “the high point of God’s love story with us”.

In America, they are called "no fly lists" – a list of people that government and the airlines consider to be security threats. But how is such a list compiled, and how does someone like Senator Edward Kennedy end up on a "no fly list"? Professor John Kleinig recently received a prestigious American National Science Foundation grant worth US$243 000 to look at the way increasingly advanced surveillance technologies impact on privacy and autonomy.

In the debate about the current release of documents by WikiLeaks founder and editor-in-chief Mr Julian Assange, a professor of public ethics at CSU argues that the 'right' to disseminate information is never an unlimited one and always calls for the exercise of responsible judgement.

The Professor of Public Ethics at CSU has backed the call by the 2009 Australian of the Year, Professor Mick Dodson, for a national debate over the meaning of and date for Australia Day.

When the Reverend Professor James Haire, AM, asks "can the two live in peace?" at NSW Parliament House on Tuesday 1 April, he will not be referring to the Australian Labor and Liberal parties but to Islam and Christianity.