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Australian letters

22 July 2017

9:00 AM

22 July 2017

9:00 AM

Stats 101

Sir: Jeremy Sammut’s discussion (July 15) of Tim Soutphommasane’s argument that “equality of opportunity is a myth in contemporary Australia” is interesting but both dialogues omit what should be an obvious point.

A business with, say, 1000 employees can certainly be “measured” according to the ethnic make-up of its workforce.

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