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Living Ethics - our newsletter

Below are overviews for issues of Living Ethics, St James Ethics Centre's newsletter. Members of the Ethics Centre received a printed copy of Living Ethics each quarter.

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Living Ethics illustration by Marc van de Griendt.

As 2009 draws to a close, Living Ethics explores some of the complex issues that confront us in Australia today; climate change policy, how we respond to asylum seekers, the illegality of abortion and the way new technologies have extended the reach and impact of bullying.

We profile some of the controversial ideas debated at the recent Festival of Dangerous Ideas, held at the iconic Syd...

Living Ethics illustration by Marc van de Griendt.

In the spring issue of Living Ethics discussions about the Government’s proposed emissions trading scheme are compared with a similar parliamentary debate held more than two hundred years ago around the topic of the abolition of slavery.

We ask how consumption can be sustainable without rejecting the mass consumption ethic and consider flaws in the argument to ‘buy green...

Living Ethics illustration by Marc van de Griendt.

This winter we focus our attention on responsible business practice and present the results of the latest Corporate Responsibility Index, a major project of St James Ethics Centre.

We also reflect on this year’s Business Leaders’ Forum on Sustainable Development and what our newly established Focal Point for the the United Nations Gloabl Reporting Initiative in Australia wil...