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Handling conflicts of interest: it's a question of trust
 Alexander Downer and Sir Rod Eddington, one a former Foreign Minister and current UN special envoy to Cyprus, the other a new chief of the Federal Government's “Infrastructure Australia”, are also both working with Hakluyt, a shadowy firm which provides intelligence information. < Click for more> |
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Education or Bribe: it's all a matter of extravagance
 It would seem that doctors need to be wined and dined in order to maintain their ongoing professional education. After some serious complaints about extravagant events that cost over $200 a head, Medicines Australia, the peak body of drug companies in Australia, revamped their Code of Conduct last year and are now publishing 6-monthly reports on how well the Code is being observed.
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Oils ain't oils
 In the midst of the severest global crisis of financial markets since the Depression, Governments, businesses and communities all over the globe are re-evaluating the role of regulation, particularly in the context of free-markets. The olive oil producers in Australia are now calling for more, not less, regulation in their market. < Click for more> |
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The Price we Pay for Taking Business Ethics for Granted
 Since the turn of the century we have heard continually that we would never see a return to the “greed is good” era of the 70s and 80s. Business leaders, chastened by the stock market crash of ’87 and the deep recession that followed, it was argued, stepped up to a new set of accountabilities and we saw a governance industry flourish worldwide. Brian Moran < Click for more> |
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