June
  2005


ABOUT US

The Edmund Rice Business Ethics Initiative, launched in 1991, exists to promote a conversation between business and the community on values and ethics: promoting life humanly in our businesses, our communities, our planet. It aims to create a space where these issues can be discussed and researched in mutually supportive ways. It seems to promote better communication for the sake of better outcomes for us all.

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Ethics and Industrial Relations
The Government’s reform package for Industrial Relations will be tabled in Parliament during the next session with its historic majority in both Houses. As the political heat rises, “Good Business” invites you to consider the ethical aspects of the arguments.

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The devil is in the detail: James Hardie

The details of the deal being negotiated between the NSW Government and James Hardie may put the $1.5b of compensation to asbestosis victims in doubt again.

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Common ground for ethics
Many business people understand ethics as fundamentally underpinned by religious motivation: what God asks of them, part of the duty of obedience and worship that they owe God. In today’s world, however, this does not necessarily mean retreating into sectarian religious stone-throwing that can only be met by secular “neutrality”. In business, perhaps, ethics can still be ethics.

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Whistleblowing: Betrayal or Public Duty?

This was the title of a one day conference in August 2002 organised by Transparency International Australia in association with the Corruption Prevention Network (NSW) and Edmund Rice Business Ethics Initiative and sponsored by KPMG Forensic. The issues explored that day focussed on conflicts between loyalty and duty, implications for the whistleblowers, the need for them to be given legal protection and the role of the media.
Michael Walsh

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  Tim Chilvers
» Invitation to Breakfast: Work-Life Balance is an Ethical Issue
» Essay Competion
··Ethics and Industrial Relations
··The devil is in the detail: James Hardie
··Common ground for ethics
··Whistleblowing: Betrayal or Public Duty?
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