The 'Go Back' television series recently broadcast on SBS highlights the ignorance to the plight of refugees around the world, but will do little to shift the community debate on policies and issues surrounding asylum seekers and refugees, says a CSU academic.

Sir Thomas Mitchell would surely approve of the Mitchell Link, a new high speed fibre optic link which will greatly benefit the Bathurst and Orange campuses of Charles Sturt University (CSU). For the first time, the regionally-based University campuses will connect into the Australian Research and Education Network (AREN), which was established in 2002 to provide large bandwidth capabilities to the country’s universities.

A memorial fund has been established to benefit future CSU theatre/media students following the premature death of Mr Blair Milan, a young CSU alumnus, actor and TV personality.

The Prime Minister’s announcement of carbon tax exemptions for families and small businesses in purchasing petrol is nothing new, but sure to cause controversy, says CSU climate change expert, Professor Kevin Parton.

Thai voters are more interested on the Prime Minister-elect’s next moves rather than the fact she is due to become the nation’s first female Prime Minister, says CSU political commentator and expert, Dr Troy Whitford.

It might be morally permissible to prevent uncommitted, or 'careless', voters from voting, according to a CSU academic.

Studies by researchers at Charles Sturt University suggest that by the age of nine months, babies are as interested in their peers as they are in their mothers.

Charles Sturt University Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ian Goulter, has welcomed the Rudd Government's announcement of a further $500 million in special one-off infrastructure funding for the development of 21st century teaching and learning spaces in Australia's universities.

CSU has developed a number of innovative resources that place it at the forefront of higher education sector workplace renewal and reform.