A long-term trial has demonstrated the potential yield and profit advantages that a genetically modified canola variety offers Australian grain growers, leading to a call to lift the current moratorium on growing GM canola commercially in Australia.

New research has found that eligibility for Youth Allowance income support is one of the major barriers to regional access and participation in tertiary education.

Exceeding the call of his profession is how the NSW Minister for Primary Industries Ian Macdonald described Professor Geoff Scollary as he awarded the CSU academic the prestigious Graham Gregory Trophy for 2007.

A Charles Sturt University (CSU) academic has described as discriminatory the Federal Government's policy of targeting high profile elite athletes for illegal recreational drug use.

The 2007 Federal election campaign is now underway in earnest. Charles Sturt University has experts who can comment on the political, social, economic and environmental issues raised during the six week long campaign.

CSU Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ian Goulter has announced the appointment of Professor Carmen Moran as Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and as Professor of Psychology at CSU.

A strong advocate for Australian women, particularly those living and working in rural and remote areas, will take her voice for women’s rights and issues to the international stage in 2008.

As one of the worst droughts in a hundred years continues its grip on Australia, inland communities large and small face the prospect of another very hot, dry summer. The national university of inland Australia, Charles Sturt University has specialist researchers available for comment on drought issues such as its effects on agricultural production and water use, access to services and impacts on families, regional businesses and communities.

Charles Sturt University in Australia will renew one of its most signficant and long-standing international relationships with the signing of a new cooperation agreement with HELP University College in Malaysia.