The Guardian reports..and we find nothing surprising about this at all. Institutional racism in Australia is a stage 4 cancer affair as much as they try to deny it.
A leading academic at the University of Melbourne (UoM) has resigned from his role heading Indigenous programs after public complaints over institutional racism at the faculty.
Dr Eddie Cubillo, a Larrakia, Wadjigan and Central Arrernte man, was working part-time as an associate dean and senior fellow at the university’s prestigious Melbourne Law School (MLS).
Before joining the university, he was the Northern Territory anti-discrimination commissioner and executive officer of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service.
Cubillo tendered his resignation as dean this week, adding he would continue to lead the university’s Indigenous Law and Justice Hub.
It followed a lecture delivered by Cubillo at the University of Sydney last month on the Indigenous academic’s encounters with racism at law school.
The University of Sydney has not published the lecture on its website, as it does usually. A spokesperson said the lecture “powerfully addressed … systemic discrimination and structural bias against First Nations peoples” but ongoing legal issues prevented the recording being distributed.
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