A plan by Australia to send 800 asylum seekers to Malaysia for processing, including unaccompanied children, has been labelled as careless by a CSU academic specialising in the protection and welfare of children and adolescents.

The rise of the Age of Information and 'new media' requires the same application of ethical principles as applied to 'old media', according to a CSU lecturer, researcher and lead author of a new book, Media, Markets and Morals.

Around 4 600 rural Australians die unnecessarily every year due to poorer access to health services than their metropolitan cousins, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Dean of the Faculty of Science, Professor Nick Klomp, says CSU is ready to address the rural doctor shortage that contributes to this dire situation.

The death of Osama bin Laden should be a welcome relief to many Westerners, particularly Americans who risk being targeted by extremist jihadist groups in conflict regions around the world, but hopes for strengthening international law enforcement and justice procedures has been lost, according to a CSU academic.

A lecturer in emergency management at CSU in Bathurst says that being prepared can help to minimise, but can never eliminate, the deadly destruction and consequences arising from the scale of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan on Friday.

A CSU academic has told a celebratory gathering on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day that while much has been achieved, there is still much to do to attain the ideals of equality and fairness that brought socialists and feminists together on the first Women's Day in the United States in 1910.

CSU aims to provide the highest quality in early childhood education and care in its proposed facility to be established at Thurgoona in 2012.

Major Australian cities face decreasing drinkable water, increasing traffic congestion and pollution problems by 2050 if immediate changes are not made to current government policy, says CSU academic and former leading CSIRO scientist, Mr Barney Foran.

Assessing the best way forward for the Federal Government to manage the effects of climate change on Australia will be the focus of a workshop to be held this Wednesday 2 March in Canberra.