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Good evening, everybody and welcome. I am the executive rector of the Ethics Center in along with our partners which is a network of australians dotted the carnegierld, council on ethics and national affairs, i would like you to welcome you to the session within our program, shades of red and blue. The reason why we have convened this session, that is our partners have been because we think it is essential to bring together sometimes for the first did people who this to be across the political spectrum within which spectrum within there is little by way of and a lot of shouting at people. We are all facing issues of profound importance which we think are better addressed by allowing for moments of principled disagreement, moments when people of conviction from different perspectives might come together and respectfully engage. Of all the topics we will be talking about between the course of this day, one of the most sensitive is that which is going to be addressed this afternoon. He fo
Ter, looking at ethnics looking at ethics and religion. This is about an hour. Good evening, everybody, and welcome. My name is simon longstaff. Director ofcutive the Ethics Center and along with our partners which is a network of australians dotted around the world, the Carnegie Council on ethics and international affairs, i would like to welcome you all here to this session within our program, shades of red and blue. The reason why we have convened this session, that is our partners have been because we think it is essential to bring together sometimes for the first time people who this to be did across the political spectrum within which spectrum within which there is little by way of conversation and a lot of shouting at people. We are all facing issues of profound importance which we think are better addressed by allowing for moments of principled disagreement, moments when people of conviction from different perspectives might come together and respectfully engage. Of all the top