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RELIGION & ETHICS
Home > Latest News > Religion & Ethics Corporate governance – why you should care 22 Mar 2007
Iconic public companies in Australia such as Qantas and Coles Myer have become targets for private equity raiders. More used to headlines about private companies going public, what does this mean for the ‘man in the street’? CSU strengthens German theological links 15 Mar 2007
Charles Sturt University will enter a new phase of development of its theological courses when Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Professor Ross Chambers, signs a Memorandum of Understanding with an historic German theological research centre on Friday 16 March. 06 Feb 2007
Late last week, the Federal Government’s Australian Institute of Health and Welfare released its report, Dementia in Australia: national data analysis and development, which shows the number of people with dementia is expected to increase to almost 465 000 by 2031. Although “there is a great fear out there about dementia, there are ways to improve the quality of life of patients with dementia,” according to Dr Elizabeth MacKinlay, director of The Centre for Ageing and Pastoral Studies at Charles Sturt University School of Theology. To bribe or not to bribe? That was AWB’s ethical question. 08 Jan 2007
A Charles Sturt University (CSU) Marketing lecturer and an Honours student have published an analysis of the ethical framework of international trade that has ensnared the Australian Wheat Board (AWB). Does Australia need a Bill of Rights? 20 Dec 2006
Australia is now the only major English-speaking country that has not adopted a Bill of Rights and this has led to suggestions that Australia is a human rights “backwater”. Vice-Chancellor congratulates Federal Opposition Leader 06 Dec 2006
Vice-Chancellor of Charles Sturt University (CSU) Professor Ian Goulter today congratulated the new leader of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party, The Hon. Kevin Rudd, MP. Mr Rudd is a member of the Board of CSU’s Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture (ACCC) in Canberra. Eminent Australians appointed to ACCC Board 29 Nov 2006
The Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture (ACCC) has announced the appointment of two eminent Australians to the Board of the ACCC. They are Lieutenant General (Retd) John Sanderson AC, and the newly installed Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn, Mark Coleridge. 21 Nov 2006
In a world “becoming much more conservative and fundamentalist” Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) School of Theology “is desperately needed”, according to Rev Dr Stephen Pickard, Director of St Mark’s National Theological Centre, and Head of the School in Canberra. The School is set to expand significantly with the signing of an agreement on Friday (24 November) with the United Theological College (UTC) in Parramatta. 15 Nov 2006
In America, they are called "no fly lists" – a list of people that government and the airlines consider to be security threats. But how is such a list compiled, and how does someone like Senator Edward Kennedy end up on a "no fly list"? Professor John Kleinig recently received a prestigious American National Science Foundation grant worth US$243 000 to look at the way increasingly advanced surveillance technologies impact on privacy and autonomy. 07 Nov 2006
"Instead of learning a new language, you could have the information downloaded into your brain. It sounds like science fiction, but a lot of work is being done in these areas at the moment." Professor John Weckert of Charles Sturt University’s Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics is talking about the ethical issues surrounding 'human enhancement'. |
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