The world has reached a major milestone as the population tally ticks past eight billion in the lead-up to World Population Day – Tuesday 11 July.

Chocolate’s humble beginnings as a simple cocoa and milk-based sweet treat have come a long way. Today, varieties of caramel, white, dark, even ruby, line our supermarket shelves.

A leading Charles Sturt University social work academic says elites and institutions have allowed poverty and the plight of poor people to persist.

A Charles Sturt University accounting academic says that with the End of the Financial Year (EOFY), business and individual taxpayers are keen to know what affects them, what measures are good, and what are not so good.

Animals provide a wealth of benefits to their human counterparts, from simply bringing a smile to their face, through to guiding the sight-impaired through daily life.

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) does not discriminate. It can develop in anyone, at any stage of their life - be it a firefighter attending a fatal blaze, a soldier returning from deployment in a far-away war zone, or a woman's traumatic birth.

Two Charles Sturt University financial crime researchers say Australia’s financial crime laws are unfit for purpose and propose action to correct this egregious situation.

Australian native wildlife continually amazes with its unique lifeforms and beauty. But perhaps the most magical of them all is the miracle of marsupial and monotreme milk production.

The rising cost of living is crippling those once deemed relatively financially ‘free’. Imagine what it’s doing to those already living pay cheque to pay cheque.