More than 100 students will begin their first day of study with Australia’s Charles Sturt University in Ontario today, Monday, 29 August 2005.

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.

Charles Sturt University was recognised for its contribution to criminal intelligence training in Australia at the annual Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers conference last night (Thursday 3 November) in Sydney.

As more than 60 000 Year 12 students continue sitting their New South Wales Higher School Certificate exams this month, most of them would have accessed the NSW HSC Online resource.

Charles Sturt University has a range of experts available for comment on the threat that avian influenza (strain H5N1) poses for Australia.

Leading experts on a range of global issues from East Timor to genetically modified food, bioethics, cloning, policing and media ethics will converge in Canberra tomorrow at the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics Sixth National Conference.

In conferring the award of Doctor of the University (honoris causa) on Helen Smith, the University recognises a life devoted to the highest professional standards in education and to service to the community.

The first of a new breed of NSW police officers will be sworn in as probationary constables by the NSW Police Commissioner, Peter Ryan, at the NSW Police Academy at Goulburn tomorrow, Tuesday 22 December.

There is no such thing as a "level playing field" in international trade, , but it is how you deal with the uneven conditions that counts, according to former Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and Deputy Prime Minister, The Hon. Tim Fischer.