A long-term trial has demonstrated the potential yield and profit advantages that a genetically modified canola variety offers Australian grain growers, leading to a call to lift the current moratorium on growing GM canola commercially in Australia.

New research has found that eligibility for Youth Allowance income support is one of the major barriers to regional access and participation in tertiary education.

A Charles Sturt University (CSU) academic has described as discriminatory the Federal Government's policy of targeting high profile elite athletes for illegal recreational drug use.

CSU Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ian Goulter has announced the appointment of Professor Carmen Moran as Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and as Professor of Psychology at CSU.

A strong advocate for Australian women, particularly those living and working in rural and remote areas, will take her voice for women’s rights and issues to the international stage in 2008.

As one of the worst droughts in a hundred years continues its grip on Australia, inland communities large and small face the prospect of another very hot, dry summer. The national university of inland Australia, Charles Sturt University has specialist researchers available for comment on drought issues such as its effects on agricultural production and water use, access to services and impacts on families, regional businesses and communities.

Fifteen years ago social researcher Hugh Mackay wrote the bestseller Reinventing Australia, which analysed, with forensic skill, what was happening within Australian society. In this year’s Nowik public lecture hosted by Charles Sturt University, Mackay takes another hard look at Australians to see how far we have come.

Professor Anthony Cahalan, the current Dean of the Faculty of Design at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, Canada's largest university of art and design, has been appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Charles Sturt University (CSU).

Charles Sturt University has announced the establishment of the Centre for Inland Health in response to the critical health issues confronting Australia’s rural communities and the lack of realistic solutions to address these concerns.