http://www.ethics.org.au/content/ethics-news Monthly ethical dilemmas from St James Ethics Centre to exercise your ethics. en http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/ethics-without-philosophers-appalling-state-affairs-business <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies </em> <span class="date-display-single">25 January 2012</span></p> <p>Could someone without a business degree become a marketing consultant? No? Then how is it that people without philosophy degrees are becoming ethics consultants? [1] Is it that people don&rsquo;t know that Ethics is a branch of Philosophy just as Marketing is a branch of Business? Doubtful.</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tittle20120125" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/ethics-without-philosophers-appalling-state-affairs-business" target="_blank">read more</a></p> business ethics in-house teaching philosophers proffessionals Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:23:54 +0000 SJECThink15 1423 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/ethics-brain-boosting <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>Health Canal </em> <span class="date-display-single">26 January 2012</span></p> <p>Jonathan Wood - The idea of a simple, cheap and widely available device that could boost brain function sounds too good to be true.</p> <p>electric brain stimulation</p> <p>Yet promising results in the lab with emerging &lsquo;brain stimulation&rsquo; techniques, though still very preliminary, have prompted Oxford neuroscientists to team up with leading ethicists at the University to consider the issues the new technology could raise.</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://www.healthcanal.com/brain-nerves/25797-The-ethics-brain-boosting.html" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/ethics-brain-boosting" target="_blank">read more</a></p> brain children enhancment intelligence thinking Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:18:04 +0000 SJECThink15 1422 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/5-questions-magnus-role-research-ethics-consultations <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>Health Canal </em> <span class="date-display-single">26 January 2012</span></p> <p>In the past decade, a growing number of academic medical centers have begun offering research ethics consultation services, in which bioethics experts help scientists address the ethical and societal implications of their laboratory and clinical experiments.</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://www.healthcanal.com/public-health-safety/25810-Questions-Magnus-the-role-research-ethics-consultations.html" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/5-questions-magnus-role-research-ethics-consultations" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Bioethics ethics consultants medical research Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:15:47 +0000 SJECThink15 1421 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/nothing-ethical-starving-poor <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>The Sydney Morning Herald </em> <span class="date-display-single">27 January 2012</span></p> <p>There is a growing gap between farmers and consumers. It was a recurring theme in a dozen meetings I had with hundreds of agricultural leaders in Australia recently and mirrors what is happening in the US.</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/nothing-ethical-in-starving-the-poor-20120126-1qjon.html" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/nothing-ethical-starving-poor" target="_blank">read more</a></p> animal welfare food GM crops poverty Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:06:29 +0000 SJECThink15 1420 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/australian-ethical-we-don%E2%80%99t-invest-guns-tobacco-or-pollution <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>mUmBRELLA </em> <span class="date-display-single">23 January 2012</span></p> <p>Australian Ethical: we don&rsquo;t invest in guns, tobacco or pollution</p> <p>Sydney Communications agency I.D.E.A.S is behind a campaign for Australian Ethical Investment that introduces the new slogan &lsquo;Positive wealth creation&rsquo;.</p> <p>The campaign &ndash; titled &lsquo;wake up&rsquo; &ndash; is based on the insight that many people do not know what their superannuation is invested in.</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://mumbrella.com.au/australian-ethical-we-dont-invest-in-guns-cigarettes-or-pollution-71884" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/australian-ethical-we-don%E2%80%99t-invest-guns-tobacco-or-pollution" target="_blank">read more</a></p> guns investment pollution super tobacco Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:04:38 +0000 SJECThink15 1419 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/wanted-ethical-hackers <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>computer hacking, technology, hactivism </em> <span class="date-display-single">30 January 2012</span></p> <p>Recently, the website of Ankit Fadia, a well-known ethical hacker, was hacked by another group that goes by the name Team Grey Hat (TGH). The &ldquo;hactivist&rdquo; group entered Ankit Fadia&rsquo;s official site and exposed his credentials, including sensitive data, student details, database credentials (like name, user name &amp; password). In a blog message, TGH also rubbished Fadia as a hacker and his courses.</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/wanted-ethical-hackers/463171/" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/wanted-ethical-hackers" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Business Standard Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:01:15 +0000 SJECThink15 1418 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/wow-economy-code-ethics <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>Wow Insider </em> <span class="date-display-single">30 January 2012</span></p> <p>Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Fox Van Allen and Basil &quot;Euripides&quot; Berntsen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Feed Fox's ego by emailing him or tweeting him at @foxvanallen.</p> <p>There's nothing more American than the idea of making money off the labor of others. Wall Street was built on it. Presidential campaigns are built on it. Even World of Warcraft fortunes are built on it. If you want to be a member of the 1%, you have to do it off the labor of the 99%.</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/30/the-wow-economy-code-of-ethics/" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/wow-economy-code-ethics" target="_blank">read more</a></p> economy online ethics virtual world Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:57:39 +0000 SJECThink15 1417 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/buddhism-could-enlighten-australia-and-asian-cultures <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>Perth Now </em> <span class="date-display-single">24 January 2012</span></p> <p>REATING awareness about Buddhism could help to bridge the cultural gap between Asia and Australia, a WA-based monk says.</p> <p>Vello V&auml;&auml;rtn&otilde;u, who is the head of Estonian Nyingma Buddhism, said he wanted to bring together the Buddhists in Perth and encourage more people to learn about the tradition.</p> <p>The monk moved to Perth in 2010 and is now busy organising the first Buddhism and Australia conference which he will host here in February.</p> <p>The 60-year-old anticipates the conference will attract international scholars and monks.</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://www.perthnow.com.au/buddhism-could-enlighten-australia-and-asian-cultures/story-fn8ou527-1226252787624" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/buddhism-could-enlighten-australia-and-asian-cultures" target="_blank">read more</a></p> asia Buddhism culture new ethics Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:40:18 +0000 SJECThink15 1416 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/ethics-work-online-piracy-legislation-problematic <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>The Jerusalem Post </em> <span class="date-display-single">19 January 2012</span></p> <p>If you tried to access the English-language Wikipedia on Wednesday, you noticed that for the first time ever it was intentionally blacked out. (If you were clever, you just accessed whatever you needed through the Google archive.) The reason was a protest against legislation pending in the United States that Wikipedia thinks is a threat to the viability of the project. The bill is called the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA for short, and has generated much controversy.</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Business/Commentary/Article.aspx?id=254405" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/ethics-work-online-piracy-legislation-problematic" target="_blank">read more</a></p> copying piracy SOPA workplace Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:20:48 +0000 SJECThink15 1415 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/single-player-teams-loss <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>Business News </em> <span class="date-display-single">1 February 2012</span></p> <p>It is every player's nightmare to make the mistake that ultimately costs their team the game. That nightmare became a reality for Baltimore Ravens kicker Billy Cundiff and San Francisco 49ers punt returner Kyle Williams whose mistakes in yesterday's National Football League Conference Championship games ultimately cost their teams the opportunity to advance to the Super Bowl. Since these mistakes happened on a very big stage, they raise the interesting question of is it ethicalto blame one person (or in this case one player) for a loss or business failure?</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/1946-ethical-nfl-mistakes.html" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/single-player-teams-loss" target="_blank">read more</a></p> blame sport teams Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:13:48 +0000 SJECThink15 1414 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/ethical-warning-looming-us-workplaces <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>The Wall Street Journal </em> <span class="date-display-single">23 January 2012</span></p> <p>If you ever reported something bad at work and got trouble in return, you are not alone.</p> <p>Last year, nearly 8.8 million Americans felt the sting of workplace retaliation &mdash; a 33% increase in negative payback from the year before. That surge, identified by the Ethics Resource Center in its biennial survey of ethics in the workplace, is an ominous trend that strongly suggests that ethics violations at U.S. companies are about to go up. Read more.</p> <p>Even as they focus on restoring growth, American companies need to add ethics as a priority.</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ethical-warning-looming-in-us-workplaces-2012-01-23?reflink=MW_news_stmp" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/ethical-warning-looming-us-workplaces" target="_blank">read more</a></p> business corporate reporting workplace Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:12:08 +0000 SJECThink15 1413 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/ethics-childhood-organ-transplants-how-would-you-decide-who-becomes-recipient <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>The Washington Post </em> <span class="date-display-single">18 January 2012</span></p> <p>Yesterday in this space, I wrote about the story of 3-year-old Amelia Rivera, who is facing a life-altering decision about whether she is eligible for an organ transplant.</p> <p>Her mother has publicized her side &mdash; that a doctor at The Children&rsquo;s Hospital of Philadelphia told her that because Amelia is &ldquo;mentally retarded&rdquo; she should not receive a transplant. More about that story, including the hospital&rsquo;s response, is here.</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-parenting/post/the-ethics-of-childhood-organ-transplants-how-would-you-decide-who-becomes-a-recipient/2012/01/17/gIQAZyTA7P_blog.html" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/ethics-childhood-organ-transplants-how-would-you-decide-who-becomes-recipient" target="_blank">read more</a></p> children organ transplant parenting Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:09:27 +0000 SJECThink15 1412 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/selling-point-was-telling-point-brazen-not-unethical <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>The Sydney Morning Herald </em> <span class="date-display-single">25 January 2012</span></p> <p>Just how many Christmas stockings were topped up with the latest book by the Herald and Sun-Herald columnist Peter FitzSimons we will never know. But if not in the many thousands it would not be for lack of trying on his part.</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/national/selling-point-was-a-telling-point-brazen-but-not-unethical-20120124-1qfir.html" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/selling-point-was-telling-point-brazen-not-unethical" target="_blank">read more</a></p> advertising Christmas peter fitzsimmons Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:07:30 +0000 SJECThink15 1411 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/great-ethics-debate <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>Dawn </em> <span class="date-display-single">23 January 2012</span></p> <p>Gunny bags, chopped body parts and a kidnapping. Were you sick to your stomach when you read the horrific tale of Shamsul Anwar that recently went viral on social media sites? Were you equally appalled when Facebook status updates and tweets started to suggest the story was a hoax? We really need to ask ourselves: how did we get here?</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/23/the-great-ethics-debate.html" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/great-ethics-debate" target="_blank">read more</a></p> code of conduct ethics journalism Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:05:06 +0000 SJECThink15 1410 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/ethics-public-life <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>Huffington Post </em> <span class="date-display-single">23 January 2012</span></p> <p>The role of ethics in contemporary society is resurgent; its reach sprawling out across the social landscape at what many must find an alarming rate touching capitalism, banking, politics, policing, journalism, our own lives. The notion of ethics has the power to conflate these disparate issues under a more understandable set of parameters and ask more searching questions.</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/hull-republic/on-ethics-in-public-life_b_1224492.html" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/ethics-public-life" target="_blank">read more</a></p> citizens ethics law public Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:21:57 +0000 SJECThink15 1409 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/observer-ethical-awards-calls-uk-public-become-citizen-scientists-mark-2012-launch <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>The Guardian </em> <span class="date-display-single">16 January 2012</span></p> <p>To mark the launch of the 2012 Observer Ethical Awards, The Observer is today calling for the UK to turn into a nation of citizen scientists, tracking and recording crucial information on non-native invasive species in their local areas.</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/gnm-press-office/observer-calls-citizen-scientists?newsfeed=true" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/observer-ethical-awards-calls-uk-public-become-citizen-scientists-mark-2012-launch" target="_blank">read more</a></p> environmentalism grassroots People power Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:23:03 +0000 SJECThink16 1405 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/cozy-ties-astroturf-ethical-oil-and-conservative-alliance-promote-tar-sands-expansion <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>rabble.ca </em> <span class="date-display-single">16 January 2012</span></p> <p>By Emma Pullman</p> <p>As the Northern Gateway Pipeline Project Joint Review Panel begins hearing over 4,000 comments submitted by community members, First Nations, governments and environmental groups, the tar sands front group EthicalOil.org has launched its latest PR offensive in support of the pipeline. OurDecision.ca, the new astroturf ad campaign, is another dirty PR attempt to undermine the real and growing grassroots opposition to Big Oil&rsquo;s plans to ram through this destructive pipeline.</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/emmapullman/2012/01/cozy-ties-astroturf-ethical-oil-and-conservative-alliance-promote" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/cozy-ties-astroturf-ethical-oil-and-conservative-alliance-promote-tar-sands-expansion" target="_blank">read more</a></p> environmentalism Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:21:14 +0000 SJECThink16 1404 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/teaching-ethics-latest-chapter-us-accounting-scandals <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>Pasadena Star News </em> <span class="date-display-single">19 January 2012</span></p> <p>By Steve Scauzillo</p> <p>An accounting firm performs a questionable audit, blindly accepting inflated revenue values, glossing over the client's &quot;creative financing techniques.&quot; Eventually, that company collapses, taking with it the number crunchers, whose reputation is now as worthless as their client's stock.</p> <p>It's a scenario played out dozens of times in the last 10 years. First Enron, then WorldCom, then Global Crossing, AIG, Bernie Madoff, followed by the collapse of accounting firms, the most infamous being the demise of Arthur Andersen in 2002.</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_19745640" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/teaching-ethics-latest-chapter-us-accounting-scandals" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Accounting business ethics ethics classes Financial ethics Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:18:24 +0000 SJECThink16 1403 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/why-rupert-spending-millions-undermining-national-security <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>Crikey </em> <span class="date-display-single">16 January 2012</span></p> <p>by Bernard Keane</p> <p>Rupert Murdoch&rsquo;s efforts on Twitter so far have included the occasional case of humility. On Friday he stated the bleeding obvious in admitting about Myspace &ldquo;we screwed up in every way possible, learned lots of valuable expensive lessons&rdquo;.</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/16/why-is-rupert-spending-millions-undermining-national-security/" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/why-rupert-spending-millions-undermining-national-security" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Internet censorship piracy Rupert Murdoch Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:15:01 +0000 SJECThink16 1402 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/forget-pirates-film-industry-has-plundered-itself <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>ABC - The Drum </em> <span class="date-display-single">18 January 2012</span></p> <p>By Greg Jericho</p> <p>This week Rupert Murdoch has decided to take to Twitter to let us know all about his views on movie piracy.</p> <p>His tweets have provided some nice nuggets of amusement that have been akin to your father telling you he's heard about this thing called the information superhighway and wanting to know if you have heard of The Google.</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3779894.html" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/forget-pirates-film-industry-has-plundered-itself" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Internet censorship piracy SOPA Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:10:50 +0000 SJECThink16 1401 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/technical-examination-sopa-and-protect-ip <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>BLOG.reddit </em> <span class="date-display-single">17 January 2012</span></p> <p>By Jason Harvey</p> <p>As you have probably heard, there are two pieces of legislation currently pending that we, and others like us, believe seriously threaten the internet. I wanted to take some time to delve into the text of both of these bills, and outline their potential consequences as I am able to understand them. As you can imagine, this is a complex issue, and as a result this is going to be a complex post. I highly encourage you to set some time aside to read this thoroughly. Grab some caffeine, we are going to be here for a while.</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/technical-examination-of-sopa-and.html" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/technical-examination-sopa-and-protect-ip" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Internet censorship piracy Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:03:21 +0000 SJECThink16 1400 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/animal-cruelty-illegal-ethical <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>Canadian Business </em> <span class="date-display-single">10 January 2012</span></p> <p>By Chris MacDonald</p> <p>Canads's largest independent chicken-processing company, Maple Lodge Farms, was recently slapped with no fewer than 60 criminal charges related to inhumane treatment of chickens in transport.</p> <p>This is a good example to continue our exploration of the relationship between ethics and the law. (Two weeks ago we discussed why what's legal isn't always ethical; last week we explored why following the law can be hard and hence breaking the law sometimes ethically forgivable.)</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://www.canadianbusiness.com/blog/business_ethics/65217--is-animal-cruelty-illegal-but-ethical" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/animal-cruelty-illegal-ethical" target="_blank">read more</a></p> animal cruelty Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:00:04 +0000 SJECThink16 1399 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/europes-ethical-eggs-ample <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>The Australian Broadcasting Corporation </em> <span class="date-display-single">17 January 2012</span></p> <p>By Peter Singer</p> <p>FORTY YEARS AGO, I stood with a few other students in a busy Oxford Street, London handing out leaflets protesting the use of battery cages to hold hens. Most of those who took the leaflets did not know that their eggs came from hens kept in cages so small that even one bird - the cages normally housed four - would be unable to fully stretch and flap her wings. The hens could never walk around freely, or lay eggs in a nest.</p> <p>Many people applauded our youthful idealism, but told us that we had no hope of ever changing a major industry. They were wrong.</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2012/01/17/3407657.htm" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/europes-ethical-eggs-ample" target="_blank">read more</a></p> animal cruelty environment Peter Singer Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:54:54 +0000 SJECThink16 1398 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/judging-judges%E2%80%99-ethics <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>The Hill </em> <span class="date-display-single">3 January 2012</span></p> <p>By Ronald Goldfarb</p> <p>A journalist I know questioned a two-bit Maryland legislator who voted for a law affecting property he had a financial interest in. &ldquo;How about your conflict of interest?&rdquo; he asked. &ldquo;I got no conflict with that!&rdquo; the lawmaker responded.</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-judiciary/202133-judging-judges-ethics" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/judging-judges%E2%80%99-ethics" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Judicial Ethics Legal Ethics Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:04:47 +0000 SJECThink16 1397 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/ethical-analysis-climate-change-disinformation-campaign <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>Climate Progress </em> <span class="date-display-single">10 January 2012</span></p> <p>by Donald A. Brown, cross-posted from the Penn State Climate Ethics Blog</p> <p>Over the next few weeks, ClimateEthics will take a deeper look at what has been referred to as the &ldquo;climate change disinformation campaign&rdquo; through an ethical lens. Although ClimateEthics has examined these issues briefly before, see: An Ethical Analysis of the Climate Change Disinformation Campaign: Is This A New Kind of Assault on Humanity?, this is the first in a series of posts that will examine this phenomenon in depth.</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/01/10/399724/ethical-analysis-of-the-climate-change-disinformation-campaign/?mobile=nc" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/ethical-analysis-climate-change-disinformation-campaign" target="_blank">read more</a></p> climate change science Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:00:19 +0000 SJECThink16 1396 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/big-society-must-be-grounded-goodness <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>The Guardian </em> <span class="date-display-single">3 January 2012</span></p> <p>By Anthony Seldon</p> <p>By the end of 2011, commentators had reached a consensus that David Cameron had failed to produce a coherent domestic agenda, beyond George Osborne's strategy for the recession and Michael Gove's activism in schools. The &quot;big society&quot;, many concluded, had lost its way and should be given a quiet burial, confined to the dustbin policies of history, like Tony Blair's abortive &quot;third way&quot;.</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/03/big-society-goodness-government-morality" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/big-society-must-be-grounded-goodness" target="_blank">read more</a></p> government politics Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:56:02 +0000 SJECThink16 1395 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/stress-taking-heavy-toll-compliance-and-ethics-professionals <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>The Sacramento Bee </em> <span class="date-display-single">10 January 2012</span></p> <p>MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 10, 2012 -- On-the-job stress leading to sleepless nights and thoughts of quitting work</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2012/01/10/4176565/stress-taking-a-heavy-toll-on.html" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/stress-taking-heavy-toll-compliance-and-ethics-professionals" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Corporate Ethics Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:52:40 +0000 SJECThink16 1394 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/world-needs-economic-ethics-new-rules-pope-says <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>Chicago Tribune </em> <span class="date-display-single">9 January 2012</span></p> <p>By Philip Pullella</p> <p>VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The global crisis shows that the world needs economic ethics and new rules so the financial system benefits all humanity, Pope Benedict said on Monday in his keynote speech for the New Year.</p> <p>In a wide-ranging address, the pontiff also called for the end of violence across North Africa and the Middle East, and denounced attacks against religious freedom.</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-pope-economytre8080t0-20120109,0,4366692.story" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div> Catholic church economics religious freedom Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:46:03 +0000 SJECThink16 1393 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/plastic-surgeons-ethically-and-morally-obliged-replace-suspect-breast-implants <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>Herald Sun </em> <span class="date-display-single">3 January 2012</span></p> <p>PLASTIC surgeons who gave women suspect breast implants have an &quot;ethical and moral obligation&quot; to remove the implants at their own expense, the leader of a British surgeons' organization said.</p> <p>The French Poly Implants Protheses (PIP) implants - given to 40,000 women in Britain including about 3,000 after cancer surgery - were priced so low they were &quot;too good to be true,&quot; said Dr Fazel Fatah, president of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons and a member of a government-commissioned investigation panel.</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/plastic-surgeons-ethically-and-morally-obliged-to-replace-suspect-breast-implants/story-e6frf7jx-1226235823547" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/plastic-surgeons-ethically-and-morally-obliged-replace-suspect-breast-implants" target="_blank">read more</a></p> medical ethics Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:37:34 +0000 SJECThink16 1392 at http://www.ethics.org.au http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/do-accountants-act-public-interest-not-always <p class="published-details">This article was published in <em>The Conversation </em> <span class="date-display-single">6 January 2012</span></p> <p>By Robert Walker</p> <p>According to the profession&rsquo;s code of ethics, &ldquo;a distinguishing mark of the accountancy profession is its acceptance of the responsibility to act in the public interest.&rdquo; That is, not exclusively to satisfy the needs of an individual client or employer.</p> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://theconversation.edu.au/do-accountants-act-in-the-public-interest-not-always-4698" target="_blank">Read story in full ...</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="http://www.ethics.org.au/ethics-news/do-accountants-act-public-interest-not-always" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Accounting Election promises politics Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:34:18 +0000 SJECThink16 1391 at http://www.ethics.org.au