http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/sev-ozdowski/ As the Australian Human Rights Commissioner and Disability Discrimination Commissioner from 2000 to 2005, Dr Sev Ozdowski OAM authored the ground-breaking “National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention: A Last Resort?” The report ignited a national debate about Australia’s immigration detention policies and ultimately led to children being released from mandatory detention and a rethinking of the government’s detention policies. As Disability Discrimination Commissioner, he was instrumental in the “National Inquiry into Mental Health Services: Not for service” report, which placed mental illness on the national agenda, led to the reform of, and major budgetary increases for mental health services in Australia. Dr Ozdowski has an LLM and MA in Sociology from Poznan University, Poland and a PhD from the University of New England, Armidale. He is currently the Director of Equity and Diversity at the University of Western Sydney. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/If-were-going-to-teach-ethics-in-schools-lets-do-it-properly/ NSW is on the brink of introducing ethics teaching into classrooms across the country, but no-one, not even the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, has any notion as to what we will be teaching our children. The problem with modern day ethics is the lack of unified standards for deciding what is right or wrong. Worse than this, many educators seek to frame the debate in terms of relativism, which provides the perfect platform for communities and countries to sacrifice basic human rights in the name of concepts such as religion, culture and philosophy. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Sev Ozdowski) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/If-were-going-to-teach-ethics-in-schools-lets-do-it-properly/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/If-were-going-to-teach-ethics-in-schools-lets-do-it-properly/#item4404 Thu, 04 Nov 2010 19:40:30 +0000 Sev Ozdowski | Author bios | The Punch