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Time is Ripe for Debate on Ethics
Wrongdoers will always exist. So regardless of how many rules of conduct or codes of ethics are in place, at some stage most organisations and...
We all lose when opinion is for sale
The John Laws affair is likely to bring about a revolution in talk-back radio akin to the 'payola' scandals in US pop music stations. Under...
Covering up a Multitude of Social, Ethical Sins
A Royal Commission investigating a major scandal comprehensively discredits the report of a consultant who appears before it. The consultant's...
Monitoring detects bias
Letter to the Editor: Tony Reeves's attempt (Letters 6 July) to decide that people or institutions are not fit to comment on important matters,...
Mandela Fallacy Clouds Sins of the KLA
The return of the Kosovo Albanian refugees to their villages, and the corresponding flight of Kosovo Serb civilians out of theirs, provides...
Compensation for Victims of Crime
The call by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Paul de Jersey for a review of victim's of crime compensation is timely. He regards the scheme...
Red Radicals Find Fertile Ground in Green Causes
Co-Written by Mike Nahan and Michael Warby It is time re-civilise civil society. Non-government organisations have been developing pretensions to...
Forget the ideology, look at the facts
When humanities academics---historians, political scientists, sociologists---comment on markets, they almost never mention their positive side....
Salary Caps and the AFL
The Melbourne based consultancy, Affairs of State has recently published the football club affiliation of all Victorian M.P.s. The most popular...
Two can play the protest game
Accountability is something which cuts both ways---if you are going to demand it, then you had better practice it yourself. And, as every child in...