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Helping friends in need in Pakistan
SOCIETY  2 Sep 2010

Helping friends in need in Pakistan

Desperately needed feed and veterinary supplies for small-holder dairy farmers in Pakistan will be purchased with emergency relief initiated by CSU through a one–off grant from Australia’s international agricultural research agency, ACIAR.

Charles Sturt UniversitySociety and Community

Alarm, scepticism and the media in climate change debate
SOCIETY  25 Aug 2010

Alarm, scepticism and the media in climate change debate

Why is it that, while most scientists are in agreement on climate change, the media says otherwise?

InternationalSociety and Community

Communities should drive plans to live with less water: CSU experts
SOCIETY  28 Jul 2010

Communities should drive plans to live with less water: CSU experts

Each community in the Murray Darling Basin should have a greater say in how they react to the decreasing availability of water around them, according to a group of CSU researchers who work extensively with these communities on issues such as drought and soil salinity.

Society and Community

Uniquely Australian
SOCIETY  21 Jul 2010

Uniquely Australian

The stoic pioneer and the sporting hero are all images celebrated at some point in our history as uniquely Australian rural identities. A new book by CSU academics aims to broaden the debate about rural identity.

Charles Sturt UniversitySociety and Community

Researchers challenge jury selection process
SOCIETY  5 Jul 2010

Researchers challenge jury selection process

A CSU researcher says her co-authored study of the jury selection process in Australia indicates that the current conditions under which Australian jurors are selected make peremptory challenges inappropriate in contemporary courtrooms.

Charles Sturt UniversitySociety and Community

Political debate on Twitter
SOCIETY  17 Jun 2010

Political debate on Twitter

A CSU researcher says her postgraduate research shows there is often experimentation in the use of social media as part of organisational communication, and yesterday's debate on Twitter between leaders of the main NSW political parties is an example of such an experiment.

Charles Sturt UniversitySociety and Community

Aged care needs - why care?
SOCIETY  15 Jun 2010

Aged care needs - why care?

Concerns that the services necessary to support older Australians in inland communities may not be adequate or available in the future have prompted a new study by a team of aged care researchers from CSU.

Charles Sturt UniversityHealthSociety and Community

Sound Effects Study - implications for Australian families
SOCIETY  25 May 2010

Sound Effects Study - implications for Australian families

The findings of a major Australian study about speech impairment in children were presented at a national conference in Melbourne last week by CSU researchers who highlighted the predicament of many families that have trouble accessing speech pathology services.

Charles Sturt UniversityHealthSociety and Community

Alaskan exhibition combines love of history and photography
SOCIETY  9 Apr 2010

Alaskan exhibition combines love of history and photography

What started as a visit to a remote Aleutian island by a CSU academic from Australia has grown to become a major exhibition highlighting the little known Aleutian campaign fought during the Second World War between US and Japanese forces.

InternationalSociety and Community

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