Tag: Current affairs
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Boycott or engage
Philip Wright The recent call for a boycott of Pork by Animals Australia raises a number of ethical questions around the use of boycott (named after...
Hypothetical putanesca
John Bevins John Bevins was asked some weeks after attending the Rozelle Feast Day hypothetical, The ‘Ethics of Pork Production, Distribution...
WikiLeaks has not gone far enough
Jake Goldenfein Before a full house at Sydney’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas, the question was posed to Julian Assange, “Has WikiLeaks...
Opting in: a review of the final 2010 iq2 debate
The so-called “populist and uninformed debate” raging in the media was tamed into a civilised, intelligent and entertaining debate on the...
Religion, politics and school community
This year has produced a number of sobering lessons about the intersection between religion and politics, writes Simon Longstaff. As some will know,...
The irony of Wikileaks
The publication of a mass of leaked diplomatic cables by the organisation founded by Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, has prompted an extraordinary...
Why opponents of ethics education in schools are wrong
This year has produced a number of sobering lessons about the intersection between religion and politics. As some will know, St James Ethics Centre...
Revitalising the essence of democracy
The ongoing health of our democracy relies on authentic individuals who seek public office in good faith, genuine parliamentary debate and...
Towards an ethics-based complement scripture in NSW primary schools
Did you know that children whose parents make a conscientious decision to have their children opt out of special religious education (SRE) in NSW...
The ethics of the global financial crisis
As the leaders of the G20 group of countries sat down to discuss their response to the world’s economic woes, Simon Longstaff asked that they...
Should sporting heroes be good people?
I recently tuned into a conversation about Shane Warne’s triumphant retirement from test cricket. All seemed to be going well as people waxed...
All sporting good reduced
In the same week that a NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption investigation has revealed deep-seated impropriety in the greyhound racing...
SOCOG's gold medal backflip
A firestorm of public anger has engulfed the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG). Yet those at the centre of the conflagration...
New parliament heralds chance for reform
One of the best things about the election of a new parliament is that it provides an opportunity to revitalise the heart of our democratic...
Public power for the public good
The series of transactions in which public assets were sold to entities in which the NSW minister Joe Tripodi had a beneficial interest raises...
Keeping themselves honest
One of the real surprises of the recent Federal election was the election of enough Liberal and National Party Senators to give the Government...
Truth in government
Within hours of Australia's Federal Election campaign being called, the Prime Minister, Mr Howard and the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Latham, had...
Cynicism imperils politics
Revelations on Wednesday [September 1997] of the involvement of former federal ministers John Sharp and David Jull in the latest round of politicians...
Keys to the kingdom open the coalition to temptation
The great nineteenth century British liberal, Lord Acton, famously observed that: all power tends to corrupt, and absolute power tends to corrupt...
Principles and politics
Australia has been witness to a number of disturbing revelations flowing from investigations into some of the less savoury activities of the 1980s....
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