It is no secret that inland Australia is suffering from a chronic shortage of health workers. Charles Sturt University (CSU) researchers have found that in some regional areas, rural ambulance paramedics are already evolving innovative practises to becoming front line primary health care providers.

New South Wales Police force training and procedures for investigating sexual assault have changed substantially and are supported by CSU research that examined the influence of rape myths, victim dress and victim intoxication on the responses of police officers in a simulated sexual assault case.

By disseminating information that is of public interest, WikiLeaks founder and editor-in-chief, Mr Julian Assange, did the right thing by informing the public of the truth, and should be thanked for it and named Australian of the Year, says a CSU media ethicist.

Women in non-metropolitan areas considering IVF treatment require improved access to reliable information, psychosocial support and empathy according to Charles Sturt University's (CSU) Dr Karen Bell.

In the debate about the current release of documents by WikiLeaks founder and editor-in-chief Mr Julian Assange, a professor of public ethics at CSU argues that the 'right' to disseminate information is never an unlimited one and always calls for the exercise of responsible judgement.

The Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture (ACCC) has announced the appointment of two eminent Australians to the Board of the ACCC. They are Lieutenant General (Retd) John Sanderson AC, and the newly installed Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn, Mark Coleridge.

CSU Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Ian Goulter, announced today that the University had sent its proposal for a new health and medical precinct in rural Australia in Orange to the Prime Minister's Office.

In America, they are called "no fly lists" – a list of people that government and the airlines consider to be security threats. But how is such a list compiled, and how does someone like Senator Edward Kennedy end up on a "no fly list"? Professor John Kleinig recently received a prestigious American National Science Foundation grant worth US$243 000 to look at the way increasingly advanced surveillance technologies impact on privacy and autonomy.

Those ‘first day at school’ anxieties won’t be a problem for young children in the Dubbo region thanks to a project coordinated by six Charles Sturt University (CSU) students which concludes this Friday.