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7-Eleven, Volkswagen cases show why we should push back on 'corporate ethics'

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageChairman and major shareholder of 7-Eleven Russ Withers sits in a Senate Committee hearing in Melbourne.Julian Smith/AAP

There is perhaps no phrase more hackneyed in the corporate world than: “good ethics is good business”. Against the image of the ruthless business baron who will stop at nothing in the pursuit of wealth and power, the...

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A Short History of the Future of Elections

  • Written by: The Conversation

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The following remarks on the future of elections sketch the ambitious scope of an exciting Sydney/Berlin research project launched last week at the the University of Sydney

We live in times shaped by the conviction that periodic ‘free and fair’ elections are the heart and soul of democracy. Since 1945, when only a dozen parliamentary...

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