The Australian Institute of Ethics and the Professions is co-sponsored by St John's College and The University of Queensland. Its primary concern is with professional practice, including medicine, law, engineering, architecture, government and education.
Business ethics is also of particular concern.
The Institute seeks to provide a non-partisan forum for the exchange of ideas on the ethics of the professions and aims to serve the various professions as well as offer, where appropriate, critical discussion of existing practices and the values and ethics that govern them. The Institute aims to collect existing codes of ethics in the various professions, as well as statements of values and practices that have been published by various organisations and companies. Comprehensive files relating to current news items concerning the professions are also being assembled. A specialist collection of works dealing with professional ethics and philosophical ethics is also in the process of being built up. These collections will allow the Institute to become a focus for research activities and a resource for the professions.