Business ethics receive $2 million 10:50am 21.05.08

The Federal Government will fund a $2 million project, awarded to the St James Ethics Centre in Sydney, to help businesses develop responsible business practices.

At his keynote address to the National Business Leaders Forum on Sustainable Development earlier this week, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said that the project shows the government’s commitment to business leadership. “This new project is about working cooperatively with businesses to promote corporate social responsibility, not because they are forced to do so, but because they choose to.”
 
The funds will allow the centre “to engage many more Australian businesses in identifying and adopting more responsible business practices, particularly small and medium sized companies, whose resources are often more limited,” Rudd noted.