Ethics
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COVID vaccines: is it wrong to jump the queue?
Meanwhile, media reports suggest that two Spanish princesses, who did not yet qualify for vaccination in Spain were vaccinated while…
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We know what it takes to raise men who don’t rape, so why don’t we act on it?
Most contemporary men, and most teenage boys thankfully, are caring and ethical. Steve Biddulph The Age They like and value…
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Only the richest ancient Athenians paid taxes – and they bragged about it
While today it might sound astonishing, most of these top taxpayers not only paid happily, but boasted about how much…
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Poland abortion ruling sparks ‘women’s strike’
Crowds have protested in several cities for the seventh-day running against the decision that outlawed terminations on the grounds of…
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The law and a culture of sexual harassment: How the profession’s leaders are addressing misconduct at all levels
With a new spotlight, the profession has an opportunity to finally make lasting change. Naomi Neilson LawyersWeekly In mid-2020, global…
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OPINION: Heightened sense of fairness in precarious times
If we are all to be expected to follow COVID-19 mitigation rules that limit our individual and family freedoms for…
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Online Symposium: George Bizos & his Odyssey to Freedom
This symposium is free and open to the public. Details: 1) The Online Symposium can be accessed via Zoom /…
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The US is taking on Google in a huge antitrust case.
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google for unlawful monopolisation. Katharine Kemp The Conversation…
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Medical practitioners who receive a sexual misconduct allegation may reoffend
Research released in August this year showed that 1507 practitioners received a notification of sexual misconduct in the period from…
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Calls for euthanasia fuelled by ageism and ableism
Kathleen Rogers has a terminal illness – motor neurone disease. Breda O’Brien The Irish Times Coping with a terminal diagnosis is…
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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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