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Racism complaint kept from QUT students

The Queensland University of Technology has been accused of keeping a group of students in the dark about a racism complaint against them.

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A group of Queensland university students were kept in the dark about a racial discrimination case against them for more than a year at the behest of the woman making the complaint.

Documents filed in the Federal Court indicate that neither the Australian Human Rights Commission nor the Queensland University of Technology notified the students of the matter because lawyers for the complainant, Cindy Prior, had asked them not to.

The students were not told of the complaint against them until days before a key AHRC conciliation conference, which paved the way for the law suit, and one says he wasn't notifed at all.


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