Panel issues warning over mineral market tremors

10 . Labour market issues

The continuing low employment rates and general labour market disadvantage of Indigenous Australians have been well documented (Altman & Nieuwenhuysen 1979; Daly 1995; Hunter 2004a). However, our understanding of the reasons for this labour market disadvantage is constrained by the limited data available for the Indigenous population. This lack of understanding hampers the development of labour...

Tremors of the smile.

Panel on ethical issues in genetic testing.

DR. MICHAEL K1TA, UNUM Mutual: Good morning. Yesterday morning teed up some of the medical and scientific issues around genetic testing, and this morning we will have two panels on ethical issues and on legal issues around genetic testing. I’ll be introducing each speaker in succession. They will have some prepared remarks and then we will proceed to a panel discussion and some interactive line...

Panel on legal issues in genetic testing.

DR. MICHAEL K1TA: Our second panel this morning is on legal issues in genetic testing. Our first speaker is Professor Bartha Knoppers. Dr. Knoppers received her Doctorate from the Sorbonne in Comparative Medical Law and has pursued three main interests: bioethics, genetics, and reproductive technology. She is currently professing to the law faculty of the University de Montreal, but in her spar...

Panel Discussion: Moral Issues in Clinical Research ‡

1. The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge an...