Category: Gabriel Moens

Society Entering New Dark Age for Ideas and Discovery Warns Human Rights Commissioner

April 9, 2023
Augusto ZimmermannAustraliaAustralian Human Rights CommissionerBasil Zempilascancel cultureFeatured TopicsGabriel MoensInternationalLorraine FinlayPerthTechUSWorld
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While people have more information available at a swipe of their fingertips, Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay says individuals have become afraid of engaging in different ideas and perspectives. “In today’s world, I would say that the search for knowledge and truth is perhaps more important than at any time in human history,” she said….

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Leading Research Body Lambasted for Banning Melbourne Uni From Grants Over ‘Six White Men’ Award

March 13, 2022
AustraliaBettina Arndtcultural equalityGabriel Moensgender diversitygender equalityidentity politicsInternationalScienceScience NewsSnow Medical Research FoundationuniversityUniversity of MelbourneWorld
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Australia’s largest medical research foundation has been criticised for prioritising “equality” over “merits” after cutting the University of Melbourne from future grants because the school awarded its honorary doctorates to six white men. The Snow Medical Research Foundation, which has donated over $90 million to medical research in the last two years and donated $16…

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Uni Loses Grants for Awarding ‘6 White Men’ Doctorates

March 13, 2022
AustraliaBettina Arndtcultural equalityGabriel Moensgender diversitygender equalityidentity politicsInternationalScienceScience NewsSnow Medical Research FoundationuniversityUniversity of MelbourneWorld
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Australia’s largest medical research foundation has been criticised for prioritising “equality” over “merits” after cutting the University of Melbourne from future grants because the school awarded its honorary doctorates to six white men. The Snow Medical Research Foundation, which has donated over AU$90 million (US$65 million) to medical research in the last two years and…

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