Seeking to expand its health and human services programs to address chronic shortages of health professionals in rural and regional communities, Charles Sturt University (CSU) has submitted an application to the Regional Priorities Round of the Education Investment Fund (EIF) for $63.6 million.

With more than 25 years international experience, a lecturer and researcher who has been appointed as the new head of the CSU School of Human Movement Studies in Bathurst challenges the purpose of physical education in schools and society by asking, is it to promote physical fitness, or just a break from classroom routine?

A study by CSU researchers has found that people often experience social disconnection, loneliness, and desperation when residential aged care is inaccessible to them in their rural communities.

The spiralling rise in shooting crimes in Sydney's western suburbs requires strong and sustained political, community and police action to make suburbs safe for the public, according to a CSU senior policing lecturer who lives in one of the affected neighbourhoods.

The proposed expansion of the paramedic program at CSU will lead to a better trained workforce to meet the complex needs of modern emergency care and will save lives. The proposal is as part of CSU's $63.6 million bid to the Education Investment Fund to expand health disciplines taught at CSU in Orange and Bathurst.

In commissioning the TV documentary 'I Can Change Your Mind About Climate', to be broadcast on Thursday 26 April, the ABC has been duped by the climate change denier tactic of doubt-mongering, says Professor Clive Hamilton, the Vice-Chancellor's Chair of Public Ethics at CSU.

Research that questioned the effectiveness of public funding for repairing environmental damage over the past 20 years has resulted in mixed answers, says a lead researcher in the recently completed Landscape Logic project, CSU's Professor Allan Curtis.

The new campus of CSU in Port Macquarie will be officially opened by Senator the Hon. Chris Evans, Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research on Tuesday 1 May. Member for Lyne, Mr Rob Oakeshott, MP, will also attend the formal ceremony, which will begin with an academic procession at 10.30am, followed by a 'Welcome to Country' by Aboriginal Elder Mr William O'Brien ('Uncle Bill').

Australian Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan, will formally announce the allocation of $4.5 million to the construction of a high speed fibre optic network that will connect Charles Sturt University (CSU) Bathurst and Orange campuses into the Australian Research and Education Network (AREN).