Environmental ethics and confidentiality in professional and public life will be addressed at two seminars organised by the University of Queensland-based Australian Institute of Ethics and Professions. (AIEP)
Environment
The first, Business, Ethics and the Environment, is a free public lecture and will examine the role of environmental factors in decision making.
It will be held on Tuesday, July 22 at Lecture Theatre 3, Hawken Engineering Building, University of Queensland, St Lucia at 8pm.
Speakers will include Queensland Shell Oil's environmental advisor Amanda Chadwick and Queensland Conservation Council air quality advisor Brian Clark, the University's Philosophy Department's Dr William Grey and Department of Environment's policy co-ordination manager Murray Vincent.
Symposium participants will examine whether environmental factors are used to avoid unwelcome publicity or whether they provide business benefits.
They will also look at the benefits of environmental groups and considerations taken into account by the government when determining environmental policy.
Confidentiality
The second seminar, Confidentiality and Privacy in Professional and Public Life, is designed for professionals working in the field of social work, medicine, the law, public policy, the media, finance and the Church.
It will be held on Wednesday, August 13 at St John's College, University of Queensland, St Lucia from 10am to 4pm.
Speakers include former Governor of Victoria Dr Davis McCaughey, the Supreme Court of Queensland's Justice Margaret White, Coopers and Lybrand corporate finance division partner Marian Micalizzi, media law expert Murray Gordon, Bishop Michael Putney and immediate past president of the Australian Medical Association Queensland Dr Eileen Burkett.
AIEP director Dr John Morgan said the concepts of confidentiality and privacy lay at the heart of most traditional professional relationships and obligations but were being challenged in today's society from many sources.
Dr Morgan said the seminar would examine whether those concepts were still essential or needed to be redefined.
For bookings and information contact The Australian Institute of Ethics and the Professions. (Telephone (07) 3842 6612 or (07) 3842 6600).
For information phone Dr John Morgan or Jeremy Sparkes on (07) 3842 6600/6612.
