what's new?
Find out what's new at the Ethics Centre and on the website.
ethics articles
We have hundreds of ethics-related articles written by St James Ethics Centre staff for you to read. Our articles cover a very wide array of ethics-related subject areas.
New 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
ethics forum
The latest Ethics Forum posts are:
- Addictive toys and big, big boys
- Are men PAID MORE than women?
- Tax Rate-Ethics
- Leading, following and independence
- The struggle street rich
- The surreptitious end of xenophobia?
Visit the Ethics Forum and participate in the discussion!
Ethical Dilemmas
Each month we aim to provide you with a new fictional ethical dilemma to help you 'workout' your ethical decision-making skills.
Our current ethical dilemma is about the ethics of accidentally receiving inside information.
Read more about this dilemma so you can consider how you would resolve it. You can also view the ethical dilemma archive.
ethics poll
The current Ethics Poll question is:
It's performance and not character that should matter in sport.
Place your vote and view results for this ethics poll question and others.
ethics events
Visit our Ethics Events page to learn more about ethics-related events.
Any occasional events organised by St James Ethics Centre are listed, along with other ethics-related events we think site visitors will be interested in.
We're currently looking for more 2007 events. Please contact us if you'd like to suggest an ethics-related event.
ethics news
Ethics News is now being updated again for 2008. We add ethics-related news stories to the website and archive older stories for future reference.
Visit our Ethics News section to find out what ethics-related issues are being explored in the media.
Learn more about the Vincent Fairfax Fellowship
Have you ever wondered what the Fellows say about their experiences and what they learned on the program? The 12th group of the Vincent Fairfax Fellowship wrote a booklet about this and distributed it at their graduation on 21 July 2007. You can download a copy of this booklet (PDF - 3.4mb in size).
Who Cares? - new Ethics Centre project
Who Cares? - the ethics of caring in a good society: a national conversation is a new project of St James Ethics Centre in partnership with Carers NSW and Macquarie Bank Foundation. The Ethics Centre will be taking the role of independent researcher in this project.
Learn more about the Who Cares? project and St James Ethics Centre's involvement.
Living Ethics - our newsletter
Members of St James Ethics Centre recently received the final issue of Living Ethics for 2007.
This issue considers some of the ethical questions that arose during the recent federal election and imagine the parliamentary changes that could come with the new Australian Government.
One of our contributors relates her experience of having a miscarriage in a Sydney public hospital and suggests ways in which the care offered to women in this situation could be improved.
We debate issues of health, safety and positive role models for young people in television and cyberspace. We also consider the pros and cons of drug promotion, an issue that was featured at the 2007 word congress of Consumers International.
We look at links between debt and depression and consider how mental health issues could be addressed by the financial services industry, particularly in relation to credit and debt.
And from behind the scenes, the co-owner of a large Sydney football club explains why he would like to see the club free of poker machines, while a recruitment consultant gives good reasons why recruitment agencies should be more realistic when setting performance measures for their staff.
Learn more about this issue of Living Ethics, including viewing the illustration and a selection of articles online.
our new website!
This is the interim version of our new website. It features the new visual design, site organisation and navigation system.
Soon we will be making further changes, including adding the following interactive elements to the website:
- A brand new Ethics Forum and Ethics Poll
- Blogs by Ethics Centre staff and guests in which site users can comment
- A fully integrated user accounts system - so you'll only need one login even if you're an Ethics Centre member, an Ethics Forum user, etc.
- An Ethics Wiki
- RSS feeds
- ... and more!
For now much of the old functionality for the website is still in place, but we're working hard to replace it as soon as we can.
Learn more about the new website design, including some tips on how to make use of it, and about the remainder of our website upgrade project.