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Ethics Blog - St James Ethics Centre
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A blog about ethics and ethical issues
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ETS Senate Vote: live by the sword, die by the sword …
By Dr Simon Longstaff
Following his election as leader of the Liberal Party, Tony Abbott immediately called for a secret ballot on how to respond to the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) legislation currently before the Senate. The results were clear – the party room voted, by a significant margin, either to delay or defeat the legislation. [...]
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Animals – a growing concern
By Simon Longstaff
ABC Radio National recently broadcast an investigation into the practice of ‘puppy farming’ http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/stories/2009/2752846.htm. The report examines the commercial breeding of dogs in conditions that animal liberationists liken to the factory farming of chickens. As such, the story presents a further example of how animals can be reduced to the status of a [...]
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Ethics complement to scripture in NSW
By Dr Simon Longstaff
It is seven years since the Ethics Centre was approached by parents asking if it might be possible to develop a program of study about ethics that might then be made available to primary school students not attending scripture classes in NSW Primary Schools. We thought that this sounded like a simple [...]
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Can Kevin Rudd hope to keep his hands clean?
By Dr Simon Longstaff
Recent debate about Australia’s official response to the phenomenon of asylum seekers fleeing to our shores without official permission has highlighted a particularly potent ethical dilemma facing the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd. Mr Rudd is a man of deep faith and personal conviction who has publicly commended the example set by the [...]
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Welcome to our Ethics Blog
By Dr Simon Longstaff
This is the first of what I hope to be many a blog that will be posted on www.ethics.org.au over the years to come. It is written at a time of evolution in St James Ethics Centre’s presence on the internet.
The immediate changes offer improved functionality – a renovation in the underlying [...]
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