Ethics
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Firms should be taking proactive steps to address sexual harassment
With sexual harassment dominating the legal headlines amid revelations former justice Dyson Heydon targeted six judge’s associates, employers should be……
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Image of Thomas Jefferson alongside Black descendant holds ‘a mirror’ to America
Shannon LaNier, a ninth-generation descendant of Founding Father Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings, wore the same sort of…
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Dyson Heydon: who knew and turned a blind eye?
Some reporting says his behaviour, whatever it was, was an open secret in not just the court but the profession…
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‘Bullies are forgiven, rewarded, reinstated’: The toxic pattern in Australian politics
These tools don’t have a particular religion, faction or ideology but are used indiscriminately to hold power. Jenna Price The…
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History Will Judge the Complicit
Οn a cold march afternoon in 1949, Wolfgang Leonhard slipped out of the East German Communist Party Secretariat, hurried home,…
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What would Dr. Martin Luther King Jr say today?
Protests in America that have spread around the world. We are all still watching. What is changing and what has…
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Coronavirus is a huge story, so journalists must apply the highest ethical standards in how they tell it
The reason for this lies in an inherent conflict between two ethical obligations: the obligation to truth-telling and the obligation…
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The ancient Greeks had alternative facts too – they were just more chill about it
But persuading others – or even yourself – what is true is not a challenge unique to the modern era.…
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New owner discovers $62,000 in cash hidden inside second-hand footstool
It had been purchased around Christmas along with other furniture from a fundraiser shop for the charity Habitat for Humanity…
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UK ‘ethical vegans’ win legal protection from job discrimination
The judge said Friday (local time) that because ethical veganism is a philosophical belief, its adherents are covered by the…
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Anti-abortion protest sparks renewed calls for exclusion zones
There have been renewed calls for the imposition of exclusion zones outside maternity units after anti-abortion activists protested outside the…
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The Ethics of Politics
Politics today, in the context of representative democracy based on the party system, has a limited meaning, quasi professional, referring…
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‘Immoral and unethical’: Ombudsman slams WorkCover scheme and WorkSafe
Victorian Ombudsman Deborah Glass released her follow-up report into her 2016 investigation, which found insurance agents were unfairly denying WorkCover…
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Separated at birth: Was my mother given away because she looked white?
Cape Town, 29 September 1969 – at 10pm the city is rocked by a huge earthquake. Vibeke Venema BBC Margaret…
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Five ways to work out if a company is serious about tackling modern slavery
Because we want a bargain, businesses respond by offering low prices. Lisa Hsin The Conversation To lower prices, businesses look…
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‘Moral decision’: Melbourne cinema pulls Michelle Payne film over racing scandal
The feature film, directed by award-winning actor Rachel Griffiths and starring Sam Neill, claimed the top spot at the local…
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