A CSU expert has seen a opportunity for greater local collaboration after the federal government has decided not to provide funding for a headspace centre in the western Riverina that would help address the mental health problems for youth in the region.

Research into the aspirations of international students from non-English speaking backgrounds at Australian universities, challenges common preconceptions about how these students learn and the ways in which they are commonly taught and assessed at university.

A final report led by a CSU academic on the management of 'whistleblowers' in the public sector highlights the need to better support and protect people who come forward with reports of wrongdoing in their workplace, and suggests how to overcome the problems.

Australian artist Dr Julie Gough uses a variety of mediums from film to sound, shadows and kangaroo skins to ensure the violence and mistreatment of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people in the 1800s is not lost in the retelling of Australian colonial history.

The Labor government has introduced its carbon tax legislation into the federal parliament and CSU has experts available to comment on the tax and what it might mean for everyday Australians and for the future of Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

A bill to be introduced by Christian Democrat Rev. Fred Nile, MLC into the NSW parliament raises the spectre of philosophical illiteracy and the ‘blind’ morality of the Middle Ages, says a leading CSU academic commentator.

The NSW O’Farrell government is due to bring down its first budget since the Coalition won office at the March state election. CSU has experienced commentators to provide analysis of the budget and what it means for the communities of regional NSW.

A CSU academic has welcomed the High Court decision against a plan by the Federal government to send asylum seekers from Australia to Malaysia.

A CSU academic specialising in the welfare of children and young people has welcomed government recognition of the need to address youth mental health issues.