Rev Dr John Fleming
Fr Fleming is the Director of the Southern Cross Bioethics Institute in Adelaide and Lecturer in Bioethics in the Institute. His BA is from the University of Adelaide, his Licentiate in Theology from the Australian College of Theology, and his Ph.D. from Griffith University for a thesis entitled "Human Rights and Natural Law: An Analysis of the consensus gentium and its Implications for Bioethics". Ordained an Anglican priest in 1970, he was received into the Catholic Church and ordained a Catholic priest for the Archdiocese of Adelaide in 1995.
He has been a member of various associations, boards and councils dealing with bioethical issues at national and international levels, including the South Australia Council on Reproductive Technology, the Biotechnology Consultative Group advising the Commonwealth Biotechnology Ministerial Council and UNESCO's International Bioethics Committee (1992-1996) that developed the "Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights". He was a delegate to the Australian Constitutional Convention in 1998. He is a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life. He has lectured and published extensively, with contributions ranging from "Wake Up, Lucky Country" in 1980 to his most recent work "Human embryos: a limitless scientific resource?" He also hosts Adelaide's most popular talk-back radio programme on Adelaide's 5AA, having been involved in media for more than twenty-five years. John and his wife Allison have three daughters. In 2003 Fr Fleming will teach JP546/646 Current Controversies in Bioethics.
