Charles Sturt University’s Faculty of Health has been awarded a $649 000 grant from the NSW Health Department to implement initiatives aimed at combating a predicted chronic shortage of mental health nurses.

The release this week of a CSIRO report warning that Australia will be hotter and drier in the coming decades brings to the fore the importance of river management projects such as the Macquarie River Restoration Project.

Charles Sturt University has increased its share of industry-linked grants, with a number of projects aimed to benefit regional Australia following the announcement of Australian Research Council funding for 2002.

Agriculture is being held back by urban communities who underestimate its worth in providing food and managing the landscape, according to a leading agriculturalist from Charles Sturt University.

Australia is being driven into social, environmental and economic decay, but there are ways forward, according to a new book released today, Monday 6 August.

Indigenous people across Australia will be actively involved in a new education project to prevent and care for mental illness in their own communities.

We have lost what it means to be a community in developed countries, says a social work educator from Charles Sturt University.

Only four per cent of small businesses around Albury-Wodonga on the NSW-Victorian border have an Australian Workplace Agreement in place.

It may be the centenary of Federation, but many of the problems of the old colonies persist for people living on or around state or territory borders.