A CSU researcher, who has found most Australian households think that wider availability of broadband will do little for their homes, is not surprised at Telstra’s position after it was removed from the tender process for rolling out broadband across Australia.

New research at CSU has indicated very few Australian households feel the Federal Government’s $4.7 billion plans to improve the broadband network will help them.

An innovative new information technology course at CSU, which has been developed with a range of industry partners to keep pace with industry needs, will be officially launched at the CSU Bathurst Campus on Friday 7 November by the Hon. Phillip Costa, MP, NSW Minister for Water, Rural Affairs and Regional Development.

Australia has failed to deliver on its obligation under the international Ramsar Convention to protect its wetlands, according to a senior wetland ecologist and environmental scientist at CSU.

Ecologists from CSU's Institute for Land, Water and Society have joined forces with Australia's largest almond producer Select Harvests Limited to the look for ways to better manage agricultural landscapes to maximise production and conservation outcomes.

Research projects focussed on the environment and education have attracted funding in the latest round of projects announced in the federal Government's National Competitive Grants Program.

Practical solutions to restore one of Australia’s most threatened ecosystems – the endangered white box grassy woodlands of south eastern Australia – is the aim of researchers from CSIRO and Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) Institute for Land, Water and Society (ILWS)

While modern athletes seem to be a marvel of evolution, a CSU academic questions whether the remarkable stamina that they display is a product of modern training techniques and a deep understanding of human and animal physiology or 'mind over matter'.

As some of the world’s best athletes embark on elite competition at the 2008 Olympics and the world’s media focuses on Beijing, CSU has commentators available on various aspects of the international event.