Queensland beef producers are willing to participate in schemes that offer payments for environmental services, but a lack of support with paperwork is holding them back says CSU social researcher Associate Professor Vaughan Higgins.

Charles Sturt University has invited rural GPs, dentists, pharmacists and allied health providers to form partnerships with the University through its clinics in Bathurst and Albury.

Charles Sturt University (CSU) experts have called on state and federal governments to address the national shortage of speech pathology services for people experiencing communication difficulties.

Charles Sturt University (CSU) researchers are racing the clock to learn more about a virus threatening the world's last remaining Orange Bellied Parrots.

Charles Sturt University (CSU) Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Indigenous Education Professor Jeannie Herbert has spoken of the need to empower Indigenous students to participate as equal citizens in their own country.

Charles Sturt University (CSU) has delivered the first vaccination training to pharmacists under a revised program created with the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, NSW Branch.

Now that all states have signed up, Charles Sturt University (CSU) wetland ecologist Professor Max Finlayson said it's time to focus on putting the Murray Darling Basin Plan into action."If this means the politicking has been put to bed and the real activity can start then we should be dancing in the rains, or on the plains," said Professor Finlayson, the Director of CSU's Institute for Land Water and Society.

As Australian urban areas rapidly become overcrowded, marketing campaigns use images of relaxed lifestyles and bucolic pastures to sell dreams of country bliss to fatigued urbanites. But is rural living as idyllic as it seems?

The federal government's drought relief package will be of limited benefit to rural communities according to Charles Sturt University (CSU) experts.CSU Professor of Economics John Hicks said the current crisis affected whole communities, but the package offered little for those not directly involved in farming.CSU researcher Dr Merrilyn Crichton said poor implementation of previous drought relief had left rural communities sceptical about the current package.