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Does the principle of academic freedom protect Australian academics who engage in pointed public criticism of their academic colleagues, and university governance? A case in the High Court this week provides a rare opportunity to consider academic freedom in Australian universities.
The case has its origins in an academic dispute about the threat climate change poses to the Great Barrier Reef. Peter Ridd, a professor at James Cook University, believed his academic colleagues at a research centre at the University and at a partner institution, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, overstated the risk.
In comments to print journalists and in appearances on television, Ridd criticised reports produced by those researchers as flawed and untrustworthy. Specifically, he said that his colleagues knew they were ‘likely … telling a misleading story’, and that they would ‘wiggle and squirm’ under questioning.
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NIB to continue to notify consumers of health insurance changes which increase out-of-pocket expenses
The ACCC and NIB Health Funds Limited (NIB) have agreed to the ACCC’s Federal Court proceedings against NIB being discontinued after NIB committed to continue to provide advance notice to its members of policy changes which are likely to result in higher out-of-pocket expenses for consumers.
In these proceedings, the ACCC had alleged NIB engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct, unconscionable conduct and made false or misleading representations by failing to inform policy holders of its decision to remove coverage for certain eye procedures from its ‘MediGap Scheme’ in 2015. It was alleged that, as a result, NIB members who had undergone certain eye procedures were likely to incur increased out-of-pocket expenses. NIB had not given its members advance notice of the changes.
One part of a legal challenge to the Commonwealth’s India travel ban was comprehensively defeated in the Federal Court on Monday evening.
Justice Thawley rejected all the arguments made by the applicant, Gary Newman, a 73-year-old Australian citizen who has been in India since March 2020.
Newman’s challenge was divided into two stages.
The first stage was heard and dismissed by the Federal Court on Monday. This leaves open the possibility Newman will proceed with the second stage, which is a constitutional challenge. However, there may be no time to do so, assuming that the ban is lifted on Friday 15 May, as proposed.