Law: Promoting the Values & Ethos of Public Service in Australia

This report delves into the crucial role of ethics in modern Australian society, emphasizing its function in maintaining balance, promoting standards, and fostering moral conduct. It explores Deontology, highlighting Immanuel Kant's focus on moral obligation and duty, and Consequentialism, discussing Jeremy Bentham and John Mill's views on consequences shaping ethical decisions. The report analyzes a scenario using these theories and examines the four principles of the Public Sector Ethics Act 1994, including integrity, public goods promotion, commitment to government systems, and accountability. It concludes that ethics are vital for promoting positive conduct and moral values in society. Desklib provides students with access to past papers and solved assignments to support their learning.

Law Promote the
Values & Ethos of
Public Service

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAINBODY....................................................................................................................................3
Functions of ethics in Modern Australian society..................................................................3
Ideas and influential philosophers associated with Deontology. ...........................................3
Ideas and influential philosophers associated with Consequentialism..................................4
Scenario for question (3, 4, 5 a, b, c)......................................................................................5
6 four principles in public sector ethics act 1994..................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Ethics is a positive approach and the implementation in the society which gives all the
obligation about the right and wrong as in regard to all the establishment and the nature of the
principles. Law helps in maintaining the positive approach towards the society and also focus on
providing the general implementations through which individuals can opt the social and the
cultural behaviour in their relevant time and working (Elmahjub, 2021). This report will cover
the ethics and the function related to modern Australian society and it will also provide the
theories according to the influential principles.
MAINBODY
Ethics is general principle which focuses on implementing all the inherent code of
conduct and the moral principles through which humanity, justice and all the human rights can
be protected. It plays an important role in implementing the positive approach towards the
society as it focus on societal concerns and the code of conducts through which the standard of
behaviour can be managed. This is generally the set of rules which promotes the conduct that are
being laid in all the societal aspects. It promotes the right sense of living to the individuals
(Shaw, 2019).
Functions of ethics in Modern Australian society
 The major function of ethics in the general modern Australian society is to maintain
proper balance between the code of conducts in the individuals and also to frame all the
ethical perspective in the organisational areas.
 To promote and maintain standards that is being required in order to govern the
behaviour in a significant manner in the society. To bring the approach towards moral conducts and behaviour within the society.
Ideas and influential philosophers associated with Deontology.
Deontology is a major system for all the ethical analysis which maintains the correctness
of any other persons actions. As this shows that it is the moral obligation of all the individual to
maintain their duty towards other person. As this theory determines the roles and the
responsibilities of individual's towards one another.

As according to Immanuel Kant, all such systems which have the clear and proper set
of rules and work on the basis of ethics and general rules are. As he believed that all the ethical
activities are concerned with moral principles and laws that are needed to be conducted. He
merely depicts that there is no such thing like maintaining the ethical approach without any
goodwill. It use to maintain the moral laws and the principles through which the natural
inclinations are being implemented. He referred all his principles on Categorical imperative in
which all the all the right and the wrong is majorly being dependent on the action and on
fulfilling the duty towards the individuals. He objectified that good will is majorly the moral law
which promotes out the inclinations with formulations of humanity and the approach for
working.
Whereas, Sir David Ross held that there are so many prima-facie duties that is being laid
on the principles that all the individuals have numerous duties which forms the general and
formal principles. He distinguished all those duties as like justice, gratitude and reparation etc. he
explained that there are generally so many duties that are being laid for all the individuals and
which are according to the conduct and the behaviour which is being assigned (Laccourreye,
and Maisonneuve, 2018)
Deontology theory mainly focuses on implementing and providing the general principles for all
the individuals and their advancements.
Ideas and influential philosophers associated with Consequentialism
This theory focus on the consequences of all the normative principles and also embodies
the consequence and the normative properties. This theory judge all the essential principles
regarding the working and also on the consequences that all such things which are implemented
are right or wrong. This usually embarks to have the concept of utilitarian theory.
Jeremy Bentham has idealised the concept of consequentialism as the important morality
and its principles that implicate all the moral and the ethical issues through which the general
working and the nature can be framed. This provides the nature through which the individual can
at any time maintain the positivity and the approach as according to the conduct and the
consequence of one's behaviour.
John Mill, described it as respecting rights, being reasonable, maintaining potential in
performance and many more. As he said that this theory provides the result on the basis of which
company can focus on working and the nature on which they can abrupt their focus regarding the

conducts and the morals for society. He further analysed that this theory resolve all the
vagueness and also determine the essentials and major claims that are being necessary for the
individuals and their working (Yun-tao, 2017).
Thus ethical conducts helps to maintain the essential application of rules, which are being
followed morally in the Australian society as it is important to regulate all the social and the
general benefit for the growth of company.
Scenario for question (3, 4, 5 a, b, c)
3 If the elderly man is being apprehended then the theory of Deontology is applied in it as it is
their core duty to work as an important person for the development and for the positive approach
in the society. This will generate all the variable means and the Deontology gives the important
suggestion regarding the right and wrong made by the person as in context of society growth and
positive approach.
4 If the elderly man is not apprehended then the theory being applied is consequentialism as it
depicts out that the action are being taken after seeing the consequences of the act and the old
man was doing no harm to the people and the society and till that time it is no way important to
take any kind of strict action against them for the benefit of the society or for people.
5
 a)After entering in the QPS self test this is being seen that it is not relevant for the
circumstances in the case scenario as their was no range to make it validate and important
for the company to function according to the work. It has not made any kind of unethical
issue which are needed in this case.
 b)The possible unethical issues which are being concerned in it are the major influence
on the society with the bad impact that can be raised because of the behaviour and the
issues raised in it. This also made a major changes and the problem as can be seen that it
will affect the society and create a negative impact as this is illegal to deal with all such
activities. c) In order to avoid all such issue some important measures that can be taken are like they
can try to implement and make some important campaigns through which the issues
regarding to the drugs can be removed and several social campaigns can be made for the
self awareness and about the issue of the drugs in the company.

6 four principles in public sector ethics act 1994 a) Under Public sector ethics act 1994 the four major principles that are being covered in
it are under division 2 6,7,8,9 respectively as they are as follows:
Integrity and Impartiality- This consider all the duty that are being served in it and also provided
the major acknowledgement in the society.
Promoting the public Goods- it involves all the duty for the interest of general public and
also the enhanced integration and their working areas.
Commitment to system in all government areas- This provide duty which is being
upholder in it.
Accountability and Transparency- It is the care and caution with proper protection been
used by the public service.
 These principles are helpful as they create the positive approach in the environment and
also provides the general mature in which they can maintain the success and the frame
work.
 These principles are important for all the public officials as they create a balance and also
promotes the integrity and culture in the environment for all the societal growth and
upliftment
CONCLUSION
From this above report it is concluded that, ethics is the moral concise and the practise
which helps out to promote the code of conduct in the society and also focus on the moral values
and principles. Deontology provides the suggestion for the right and wrong that is being made
according to the rules and the principles. Kant has given major principle Consequentialism
suggests that all the good and bad is being decided after analysing the consequences of certain
activities. Furthermore, it is also analysed that John mill evaluated that all the behaviour and
conduct are based on consequences.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Yun-tao, Z.H.A.N.G., 2017. A brief exploration of the ethics of cultivation of the early German
Romanticism. Journal of Yunnan University (Social Sciences Edition), p.06.
Laccourreye, O. and Maisonneuve, H., 2018. The ethical and deontological charter of the French
faculties of medicine and odontology.
Shaw, J., 2019. Homines Curans and the social work imaginary: Post-liberalism and the ethics of
care. The British Journal of Social Work, 49(1), pp.183-197.
Elmahjub, E., 2021. Islamic Jurisprudence as an Ethical Discourse: An Enquiry into the Nature
of Moral Reasoning in Islamic Legal Theory. Oxford Journal of Law and Religion.