Introduction
Scientists describe Australia as the oldest, the flattest, and the driest of the inhabited continents, with the least fertile soil. Australia is also one of the most sparsely populated continents with its population of 26 million occupying a land mass of close to three million square miles. That is all true, but it is also misleading. Visitors flying in to Sydney, Australia’s largest city, disembark in a large, dynamic, densely crowded, modern city with lush vegetation and close by the majestic splendor of the Blue Mountains. So much that is said about Australia is not quite so, and this applies to business ethics in Australia too. Last year a global ethics body, Ethisphere Institute, recognized an Australian bank as one of the most ethical companies in the world (Utley 2019). Yet, that same month, the Roy Morgan Net Trust Score Survey (Morgan 2019) reported a remarkable rise in distrust of Australia’s major banks following the release of the government commissioned...
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Schwartz, M. (2020). Business Ethics in Australia. In: Poff, D., Michalos, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23514-1_438-1
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