...-sponsored and unsolicited self-administered mail questionnaire distributed to a census of the top 500 Australian companies operating in the private sector administered in both 1995 and 2010. This paper examines and compares the responses of the companies that possessed a code of ethics at those times...

.... TNCs shall conform to government policies designed to extend equality of opportunity and treatment (UN, 1996). The inclusion of an obligation relating to human rights was not controversial and in fact substantial agreement was reached on the part of the code dealing with the regulation of TNCs...