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- Deputy Director, Institute for Ethics, Governance & Law, Griffith University
How did speech rules developed and promoted by the left become tools that could be wielded against it?
Renewable developers use community benefit schemes to make projects appealing. But this has to be done carefully.
A. C. Grayling’s new book Discriminations explores the history and ethics of cancelling and exclusion, sounding a warning against ideological intolerance.
We’ve invited writers, from fields as diverse as wildlife ecology, politics and literature, to nominate their best books of 2024. And this year, the Books & Ideas team share their own picks, too.
The average price of a ransom is A$560,000. Saving a life through strategic philanthropy? $A6,000. Journalist Jenny Kleeman investigates the many ways decision-makers put a price on the priceless.
Misinformation suppression laws can actually make the problem of erroneous beliefs worse.
We’ve just finished a three-year investigation into how we can rebuild Australians’ trust in residential building construction – including the strata management industry. Here’s where we’d start.
Democracy benefits from constructive, nuanced political discourse. But the lures of extreme, polarising rhetoric are often too great.
Each side is righteously sensitive to any perceived hate speech from the other, but seems unwilling to limit their own punitive strategies or inflammatory language.
A new book argues that the first generation to go through puberty connected to their smartphones have had their brains rewired for depression and anxiety.
A private group chat of Jewish creatives was leaked because some were organising against pro-Palestinians. Was it ethical to do so?
How can violence be viewed as ethical? Carlo Bordoni’s new book helps us understand why societies go to war and how they justify it.
Plan your summer reading or catch up on what you missed with The Conversation’s selection of the best books of the year.
Is social justice advanced by focusing on people’s different identities? Or is this worldview ultimately a trap?
Cecilia Rabess’s controversial debut novel explores race, politics and love in the time of Trump.
Dado el trato hipócrita y explotador de los artistas por parte de las industrias del entretenimiento, ¿tenemos realmente la obligación moral de pagar por los servicios de streaming?
Given the hypocritical and exploitative treatment of artists by entertainment industries, do we really have moral obligations to pay for streaming services?
Trans activists are running a campaign against University of Melbourne philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith. It raises a host of challenging ethical questions.
The just-released audio documentary ‘The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling’ explores the debate surrounding one of the world’s most successful authors and her controversial views on gender and sex.
With euthanasia laws proliferating around the world, Caitlin Mahar’s The Good Death Through Time is a valuable exploration of the history of our shifting views on dying well.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says every COVID death is a terrible loss but Australians want to move on. Here’s how ethics can shape our response to this stage of the pandemic.
Warren Ward’s Lovers of Philosophy thoughtfully, and only a little salaciously, explores the impact of philosophers’ love lives on their thinking.
Through lockdowns, vaccine mandates and the spectre of mass death, the pandemic has uprooted our lives and challenged us to think differently about ethics. What might the future hold?
To dob or not to dob? What are our reporting obligations in a pandemic? An ethicist steps you through five questions to ask yourself before you dob (and the same rules apply for kids, too).
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