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The loophole has existed for 37 years ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 15: Chloe Clinton at the March 4 Justice protests in Adelaide, Australia on March 15, 2021. (Courtesty of Cahli Blakers) Caroline Kitchener
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Chloe Clinton posted on Instagram as soon as she heard about the loophole in Australia’s sex discrimination act: Politicians and judges in Australia, where she lives, are exempt from laws against workplace sexual harassment. The sex discrimination act, passed in 1984, only covers “employers” and “employees,” she learned. Because politicians and judges are technically neither, they cannot be held accountable if someone working in their office files a complaint.
Clinton’s friends immediately responded to her Instagram Story:
As Scientists Move Closer To Making Part Human, Part Animal Organisms, What Are The Concerns?
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The recent announcement that scientists have made human-monkey embryos and cultured them in the lab for two weeks made international headlines.
The technology to make animals that contain cells from other species has been available for decades and used extensively in research. These organisms are called “chimeras”.
European Super League promises to transform football but critics see it as a money grab
By Tracey Holmes for ABC Sport and The Ticket
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Real Madrid and Liverpool have committed themselves to the European Super League.
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That advice works as well for sport as it does for business and politics.
The latest development in football â the announcement that 12 rich European clubs have formed a breakaway European Super League (ESL) â is a heady mix of all of the above: big business and powerful politics wrestling with the heart and soul of the globe s biggest game.
It has been described by various stakeholders as disgusting, greedy and cynical.
When Swinburne University academic Dr Stephane Shepherd co-authored a paper with fellow Swinburne scholar Dr Benjamin Spivak on the high prevalence of Sudanese crime in Victoria, he was no doubt mindful of how the narrative might be used. On March 25, Shepherd released an article for the ABC in which he discussed the higher rates of imprisonment for African Australian youth, and a significantly higher rate of “crimes against the person” by South Sudanese-born youth. These crimes are more likely to receive custodial sentences, as they include serious offences like assault and robbery.
The article went on to explain that if racial profiling was as prevalent as activists would have us believe, then other subgroups of African Australians would also be over-represented – such as they are with South Sudanese youth. Shepherd spent most of the article discussing environmental risk factors of why this might be the case, as well as ways in which police can work with the community to