A symposium held to look at the future of regional rail has called upon state, commonwealth and local governments to seriously examine options to lift the threat of collapse from the regional rail system.

The director of Charles Sturt University's Institute for Land, Water and Society has welcomed the Prime Minister’s plan for a $10 billion water reform for the Murray Darling Basin describing it as a "bold initiative".

A study comparing attitudes to prenatal genetic testing and abortion among university students in three countries including Australia has found the Australians were more likely to consider a pregnancy termination if a predisposition to alcoholism, cancer, or a short life expectancy was diagnosed than their counterparts.

Our regional railway network is in poor condition but just repairing the infrastructure (such as rail tracks) won’t fix the problem says a leading researcher who has been studying the viability of Australia’s regional freight and passenger rail network.

With climate change now well and truly on the political agenda, North-East Victorian residents will have the opportunity to hear what the candidates from each of the major parties for the seat of Benambra in the up-coming Victorian state election have to say about how we should respond to this critical issue.

When a member of a family is diagnosed with cancer the impacts on a family can be dramatic but is it necessarily all "doom and gloom"?

Is prescribed burning a good thing or not? How do you resolve potential conflicts between impacts on tourism and public health with its role in bushfire management and the ecological health of our forests?

With ever-increasing pressures on Australia’s water resources, scientists are looking for ways to balance the needs of irrigators with those of the environment.

Disturbing new research on the food of waterbirds suggests we may need to reconsider our policy on the management of carp.