A friend says: “Don’t come back to australia: you couldn’t afford to pay for just a day’s worth of your facebook posts.”<\/p>\n
Why on earth would aborigines need their own computer lab? If so, then other groups need their own labs too. <\/p>\n
News:<\/a><\/p>\n A university student accused of racial discrimination over a Facebook post has amassed a hefty legal bill, which could blow out to $200,000 if the case goes to trial.<\/p>\n Alex Wood is being sued under the Racial Discrimination Act over a 2013 post he wrote after being asked to leave a Queensland University of Technology computer lab reserved for the use of Indigenous students.<\/p>\n “Just got kicked out of the unsigned Indigenous computer room. QUT is stopping segregation with segregation,” he posted on a Facebook page called QUT Stalker Space.<\/p>\n The post attracted comments critical of both the incident and the existence of the Indigenous-only space.<\/p>\n “I wonder where the white supremacist lab is,” wrote another student, Jackson Powell, who is also being sued.<\/p>\n The third student involved in the lawsuit, Calum Thwaites, has emphatically denied being responsible for a post that included a reference to “ITT N—–s” and has produced a volume of evidence supporting his denial.<\/p>\n The trio are being sued, alongside the university and two staff, by the administration officer who asked Mr Wood to leave the room, Cindy Prior.<\/p>\n An Indigenous woman, Ms Prior went on sick leave following the incident and reports she felt unsafe leaving her home because she was afraid somebody would say something offensive to her.<\/p>\n She also says she was unable to return to work in a role that required her to have face-to-face contact with white people.<\/p>\n Ms Prior is seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A friend says: “Don’t come back to australia: you couldn’t afford to pay for just a day’s worth of your facebook posts.” Why on earth would aborigines need their own computer lab? If so, then other groups need their own … Continue reading