Opinion

World Internet Day 2020 – smart regions and intelligent campuses

The internet has changed the world and offers the prospect of many things, including smart regions and intelligent campuses.

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Regional ‘Save Our Voices’ campaign calls for digital-era media rules

A Charles Sturt University journalism academic explains the Save Our Voices regional media campaign which seeks support from people in rural and regional areas who value the sense of community engendered by genuinely local news media.

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Would a media ownership Royal Commission achieve what Rudd wants?

A Charles Sturt political expert considers whether former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s parliamentary petition for a Royal Commission into Murdoch media’s scale and influence on democracy in Australia is the answer, and asks whether the public cares.

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La Nina is here, but the long-term outlook is more frequent and intense drought

A Charles Sturt expert in climatology warns that although Australia will experience wetter than normal conditions this spring – courtesy of La Nina – in the longer term, the nation must be prepared for more frequent and intense drought.

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Behind closed doors: Review of ‘Collections From The Asylum’ exhibition

A former Charles Sturt Occupational Therapy Lecturer visited exhibition 'Collections From the Asylum' and shares her thoughts on this look into a piece of the region's history.

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Charles Sturt academic claims colonialism need not be a permanent state

Charles Sturt political expert Professor Dominic O'Sullivan said colonialism cannot be reversed, but it doesn't have to be a permanent state either.

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‘The Chinese Communist Party, for all its power, is afraid of its own people’

Professor Stan Grant Jnr says the decision to cancel the TV talent show, Super Girl, more than a decade ago is just one example of how the Chinese Communist Party, for all its power, is afraid of its own people.

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Aggressive? Poisonous? Deadly? Experts debunk myths about Australian snakes

As the weather starts to warm and Australia’s snakes start to emerge, three Charles Sturt University wildlife ecologists decided to debunk a number of common myths about the reptile and say they cannot imagine a more misunderstood group of animals.

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‘To understand China we need to grasp three things: history, homeland and harmony’

Professor Stan Grant says ‘China has told us how they see the world and their place in it, how that is rooted in history, homeland and harmony, and now the rest of the world must ask whether – or how – we can live with it.’

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