On the eve of the Federal Government's inaugural National Safe Schools Week, Professor Paul Burnett, Pro Vice-Chancellor Research and Graduate Training at Charles Sturt University, talks about the damage caused by bullying.

Conference agenda for Wealth from Water Conference in Wagga Wagga.

Population shifts, loss of services and declining environmental health including water and land quality are fundamental challenges threatening to undermine the livelihoods and lifestyles of many Australian rural communities.

With one in five Australians expected to experience some form of mental illness during their life, researchers at Charles Sturt University have examined one of society’s most vulnerable groups – the children of mental health patients - and how to prevent mental illness from being passed from their parents to them.

Racial and religious intolerance is nothing new…it might be hard for Generation X to believe, but it wasn’t so long ago that Protestants looked down on Catholics who were enemies with the Freemasons…and they were almost all prejudiced against Chinese immigrants, according to Dr Robert Tierney, lecturer in the School of Marketing and Management at Charles Sturt University (CSU).

What is it like “Growing up in Australia”? A landmark study of ten thousand Australian children over a period of seven years will eventually give some answers.

The pharmaceutical business is often described as one of the the most profitable industries on the planet. And Australian drug prices are amongst the most expensive in the world.

How can there be a correlation between free speech and the eradication of poverty?

Regional Australians are not getting back from Medicare and private health insurance what they are putting into it, according to a Productivity Commission report released earlier this year. In a literal case of adding insult to injury, it is estimated that about $220 million a year of the Medicare levy collected in non-urban areas flows back to metropolitan services. Why?