Resignation of associate dean Dr Eddie Cubillo comes after he delivered speech on his encounters with racism at Melbourne Law School
A leading academic at the University of has resigned from his role heading Indigenous programs after public complaints over institutional racism at the faculty.
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. 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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