A landmark CSU research project aims to deliver new and simple diagnostic test and treatment options for liver fluke, a parasite which causes an estimated $90 million of lost production in Australian livestock industries and billions of dollars internationally.

Farmers looking at past rainfall records continue to wait for the 'autumn break', but late summer rain is becoming more common and is useful for cheaply reinvigorating Australian pastures, said a CSU researcher.

A 'decade of chaos' is how rural health specialist Associate Professor Sue McAlpin from CSU has labelled health reforms experienced by regional Australia in the 1990s.

Smoothing the learning pathways from TAFE to University and reducing the 'culture shock' in moving between the two sectors are the aims of a new national research project being led by CSU academic, Dr Cathy Down.

Flying over the Himalayas in a private plane, scoring an extras role and credit in a Bollywood movie and working with disabled children in a Vietnamese orphanage are just some of the experiences that have opened the eyes and expanded the minds of CSU students.

The forthcoming Murray-Darling Basin Plan is a once-in-a-life time opportunity to restore the ailing river system, say more than 30 of Australia’s leading freshwater scientists in a statement made on Thursday 11 March.

CSU has begun vaccination training with its pharmacy students in the strongly held belief Australia will follow an international trend to allow pharmacists to vaccinate.

The dramatic plan outlined on Wednesday 3 March for the funding of Australian health care has been described by the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as a means to ensuring Australians continue to enjoy access to world class health care.

A world where emails, online chatrooms and virtual environments are a part of daily life, and where public communication is increasingly dominated by machines, is now ready to be taken back by humans, says a social researcher from CSU.