Club Ethics

This code of ethics was developed at the request of a member who is a middle-level manager who experiences racial vilification at a low level in her everyday operations at work. She wondered if her only recourse was the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, or if she could raise the issue at work at another level? This code of ethics begins with a history of the concept of 'race' and differs from the Racial Discrimination Act which fails to give a definition of 'race', 'racial' or 'racism'.

This code of ethics looks at the ethics of telling lies in the company. It starts with a detailed analysis of "what is a lie?" and finds that moralism doesn't help - you can't just say that telling lies is bad and leave it at that. It then looks at some Australian law that deals with lies in the company, mainly