The misuse of communication technologies in cases of cyber-bullying highlights that while the tools may be changing, cruelty and insensitivity toward others is nothing new, according to one CSU researcher.

Associate Professor Jane Mills quickly got the audiences' full attention when she delivered the Occasional Address at the CSU Faculty of Arts graduation ceremony on Friday 8 May when she urged graduates to 'break rules'.

The widely recognised need to develop a better approach to tackle child sexual abuse and improve child protection is motivating a team of researchers including CSU who cross agencies, borders and disciplines.

The tsunami that hit Samoa and Tonga and the earthquakes in Sumatra this week are further reminders that natural and man-made disasters are increasing around the world and need to be planned for and managed by governments, emergency services and relief agencies, according to a lecturer at CSU.

Witnessing an elderly woman with terror in her eyes, shouting incoherently as she struggled in a restraint chair in the corridor of an aged care facility while staff ignored her and attended to paperwork for the facility's accreditation has led a CSU nursing academic to question the meaning of the Rudd government's coming apology to 'The Forgotten Australians' who were detained in government welfare institutions in bygone decades.

The Governor-General of Australia, Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce, AC, will attend an historic signing of an agreement which will increase exposure to Islamic issues among CSU students and staff.

The English literacy skills of teenage refugees in regional NSW have been boosted in the first trial of an Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation program outside the Sydney metropolitan area.

Research on the weed serrated tussock, the invading ants on Fraser Island in Queensland, and the larvae of our native fish feature in the latest issue of Connections, the quarterly newsletter of CSU's Institute for Land, Water and Society.

The humanitarian work in China of Australian Red Cross worker and CSU graduate Ms Kara Jenkinson has been recognised in the inaugural Australia China Alumni Awards 2009.