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Niceness 101: How not to offend the Aboriginals

Universities are simply doing their job teaching middle-class life skills

13 February 2016

9:00 AM

13 February 2016

9:00 AM

Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act is news again, with a claim of racial vilification brought to the Federal Circuit Court against the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and against individual students and staff members. In 2013 Ms Cindy Prior, an Aboriginal administration officer at QUT, refused to admit three non-Aboriginal students to use a computer lab in the university’s Oodgeroo Unit.

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