Encouraging Ethics

in the report of the Senate Inquiry into forced adoptions tabled today. 

Justice making is a task of the whole community. It involves acknowledging wrong doing in the past and preventing harms in the present and future. It is necessarily a multi-layered process—legal, therapeutic, ethical and spiritual (in its broadest sense). Restitution is important, as much has been lost by many. This can be specific and general. Ultimately, however, justice making must aim at restoring right relationships among the various parties. At Jigsaw Queensland we believe this can be best achieved through a restorative justice approach, avoiding both the monetary and emotional costs of winners and losers in an adversarial justice system, while at the same time engaging the community as active participants rather than onlookers.

(Source: abc.net.au)

The reporter in the Australian newspaper covering the Queensland flood Inquiry just referred to ‘the four accused Wivenhoe Dam engineers’. Freudian slip or trial by media confirmed? The public deserves better than this.

in the Australian media is beginning to really annoy me. As is creating a headline out of a partisan quote. Opinion is everywhere, who will try to present the facts?