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Ethics in a time of disaster
The experience of hurricane Katrina raises a range of social, political and economic ethical issues. Many of us have vicariously witnessed not only a natural disaster but a social one. One cannot help but compare the tsunami to Katrina. The tsunami wreaked much more devastation over a much wider region, yet we did not witness the social chaos in any of those poor countries that we have in New Orleans. One possible reason is that the media did not have the access or interest in the social consequences of the tsunami that they have in New Orleans. There are others. < Click for more> |
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Potential benefits of increased social responsibility
Penny Wong, federal Opposition spokeswoman for corporate governance and responsibility, argues that there are other benefits for businesses in taking social commitments seriously. < Click for more> |
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Creating a climate for innovation
It is a truism that a successful business needs to be constantly innovative. Ian Plowman from the University of Queensland has been studying rural communities' capacity to innovate and adapt to changing circumstances. < Click for more> |
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Reconciliation: only option for a decent society
 Lawyer and business man, Danny Gilbert, searches his own heart and Australia's in this talk delivered at Reconciliation Australia's Awards presentation ceremony, August, 2005.
Our future as a society depends upon our involvment in the present to conclude the unfinished business of the past, he argues. Danny Gilbert < Click for more> |
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