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Keywords: Business Ethics

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Smooth ethical edges give way to corruption

    • Moira Rayner
    • 16 April 2008
    2 Comments

    Having a conflict of interest is not, in itself, wrong — it is the potential for wrongdoing and corruption that must be avoided. We are not very good at this in Australia. From July-August 2003

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Idealists don't own cricket

    • Tony Smith
    • 20 January 2008
    2 Comments

    Cricket is a microcosm of society and the furore over sportsmanship reflects the division of Australia into two classes — the venal, whose ultimate measure of success is the potential for profit, and the naïve, who believe in higher values.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Respect for politicians who represent all of us is crucial

    • Frank Brennan
    • 12 September 2007
    8 Comments

    I agree with the New South Wales bishops that persons with respect for human life should vote against stem cell legislation. However, I will continue to respect the conscience of those politicians who say that they have to legislate for all citizens including those who do not share their religious and philosophical presuppositions.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    John Sweeney

    • John Sweeney
    • 17 May 2007

    John Sweeney is team leader of the Business Ethics Initiative of the Edmund Rice Centre in Sydney. He edits Good Business.

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  • RELIGION

    Acting on Conscience Canberra Launch Speech - Kevin Rudd MP

    • 27 February 2007

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  • RELIGION

    The baby Jesus and the business of welfare

    • Kate Mannix
    • 23 December 2006
    1 Comment

    The poignant story of the poor baby born in a stable is a reminder that God-with-us means God for every last one of us. Yet it is becoming apparent that God's caritas is being appropriated for the political convenience of the State.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Discourse without dialogue in Australian politics

    • Tony Smith
    • 07 August 2006
    1 Comment

    Former Labor minister John Button anticipated the current low point in political discourse, with defenders and critics of government policy having lost the capacity to engage in dialogue, particularly in the field of public morality.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Firebrand

    • Rebecca Marsh
    • 10 July 2006

    Rebecca Marsh considers Naomi Klein’s challenge to the multinationals in No Logo.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Community in an electronic age

    • Rufus Black
    • 09 July 2006

    Technology has changed human relationships, argues Rufus Black.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    News from everywhere

    • Eureka Street editors
    • 07 July 2006

    Philip Berrigan, accountability, comic opera, and senior graffiti

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Casualties of conflict

    • Moira Rayner
    • 26 June 2006

    Conflicts of interest pose a serious threat to democracy

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  • AUSTRALIA

    How to measure corporate social responsibility

    • John Sweeney
    • 12 June 2006
    15 Comments

    Corporate social responsibility is not the same as ethical behaviour, but it is an important component of such action. It is therefore important to measure companies’ social responsibility and work out how their performance can be improved.

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