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Combatting cartels
Cartels throw up all sorts of ethical dilemmas and questions. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s answer is to get on the...
The ethics of political donations
It is one of the longest running, most controversial and yet most neglected political debates of all time. The USA has its long-enduring Super PACs,...
Combating corruption
The United Nations Global Compact Network Australia has established an Anti-Corruption Leadership Group to help Australian businesses combat bribery...
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...
The greatest vice of all
Like nearly everyone else, I have been at a loss to explain Kevin Gosper's confessed lapse of judgement in allowing his daughter to be the first...
Ethics in the Olympic movement
When Hercules was given the task of cleaning the Augean stables, as one of his seven labours, it could hardly have been more of a challenge than...
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...
An interview with Watergate whistleblower John W Dean
Watergate whistleblower and former White House Counsel John W Dean knows what happens behind closed doors in a corrupt administration. Recently in...
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....
Retiring politicians
Where do politicians go when they finally retire from the hustings? In most cases, the preferred option is a clear break from the formal requirements...
Elections and bribery
If you've ever found yourself standing in a public place with a screaming, purple-tinged toddler wrapped around your ankles, then you will have known...
Power in politics
The great nineteenth century British liberal, Lord Acton, famously observed that "all power tends to corrupt, and absolute power tends to...
The International Olympic Committee Ethics Commission
For many people, it used to be that the Olympic Games were less a global sporting event than an opportunity for the people of the world to come...
The case of Senator Mal Colston
If the allegations made against Australian Federal Senator Mal Colston are proved correct, then he will have been found to be a petty and venal man...
Corruption and international trade
Adam Smith is often credited with providing the intellectual foundation for free trade. So, what would he make of the evidence emerging from the Cole...
We needn't be corrupted
In recent days, questions have been asked about the extent to which corporate hospitality should be offered to politicians during the Olympic Games....
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