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Redifining acknowledgement and its legal definition as a substitute for redress.

How the systemic failings continue. The redress scheme cannot meet the ethical standards Australia sets for human research Australian ethical standards

All human interaction, including the interaction involved in the national redress scheme, has ethical dimensions. However, 'ethical conduct' is more than simply doing the right thing. It involves acting in the right spirit, out of an abiding respect and concern for one's fellow creatures. The National Statement on 'ethical conduct in human research' is therefore oriented to something more fundamental than ethical 'do's' and 'don'ts' - namely, an ethos that should permeate the way those engaged in the Redress Scheme approach all that they do in their work.

The Redress Scheme is conducted with or about people, their data and their sexual abuse as children. In Australia some of the engagements with the Redress Scheme has been carried out in an unsafe and ethically irresponsible manner. The Redress Scheme can involve significant risks and it is possible for things to go wrong. Sometimes risks are realised despite the best of intentions and care in planning and practice. Sometimes they are realised because of technical error or ethical insensitivity, neglect or disregard. On rare occasions the Redress Scheme has even involved the deliberate and appalling violation of human beings - notoriously, the original scheme was such an instance.

Participants may enter into a relationship with lawyers and others whom they may not know but need to trust. This trust adds to the ethical responsibility borne by those in whom it is placed.

Since earliest times, human societies have pondered the nature of ethics and its requirements and have sought illumination on ethical questions in the writings of philosophers, novelists, poets and sages, in the teaching of religions, and in everyday individual thinking. Reflection on the ethical dimensions of redress and compensation, in particular, has a long history, reaching back to classical Greece and beyond. Practitioners tasked with engaging ethically with abused and vulnerab;e le people have also long reflected upon the ethical questions raised by what they do. They have come together to take a stand to ensure that Australia's human rights aspirations come to the fore as the standards of the current scheme fail to meet the minimum of ethical standards for redress. The World Medical Assembly in 1964 adopted what came to be known as the Helsinki Declaration, which has been revised several times since then. The various international human rights instruments that have also emerged since the Second World War emphasise the importance of protecting human beings in many spheres of community life. During this period, written ethical guidelines have also been generated in many areas of practice as an expression of professional responsibility.

Research often involves public interaction between people that serves a public good. There is, therefore, a public responsibility for seeing that these interactions are ethically acceptable to the Australian community.

ethos: The characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its beliefs and aspirations.

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