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Our Ethics Articles have been written by Ethics Centre staff and associates for publications, speeches, this website and more. There are hundreds of ethics-related articles for you to read across a wide variety of subject areas, along with cartoons and issues of our newsletter, Living Ethics.
new ethics articles:
- New parliament heralds chance for reform
- Are we obligated to be well-informed before we vote?
- Is betting on election outcomes ethical?
- Playing 'GOTCHA' during elections: truth, hypocricy and evolving opinions
- Winning power at what cost?
- Greed, fear and winning elections
- Eating McDonalds in hospital
- Is it ethical to minimise the tax you pay?
- The ethics of informal voting
- Stealing flowers
latest ethics cartoon:
Save changes to parliament?
First published in Living Ethics, issue 70, summer 2007
Illustration by Marc van de Griendt, www.havock.co.uk
living ethics - our newsletter
Living Ethics is St James Ethics Centre's quarterly newsletter. View details the most recent issue of Living Ethics as well as details about previous issues.
featured articles:
Thoughts on compulsory voting
While it is compulsory for all Australian citizens over the age of eighteen to vote, I imagine the vast majority of people experience this formal requirement as a relatively light burden. However, some will go to the polling place with a strong and principled objection ... read more.
Monogamy and ethics
It is just over a month since I finished reading William Dalrymple’s excellent book, The Last Mughal ... However, I must confess to my mind wandering from the important historical lessons to an altogether more exotic question; “What might it have been like to be an emperor with a harem?” ... read more.