James Cook University has been instructed to pay $1.2 million in compensation to a fired professor.
Marine physicist Peter Ridd, who made several dismissive comments about institutions such as the Australian Institute of Marine Science and colleagues, was fired in 2018.
The Federal Circuit Court Judge, Salvatore Vasta, found his termination to be unlawful, as JCU’s enterprise agreement protected his comments above the university’s code of conduct.
It was found that Dr Ridd said about a colleague that “he will give the normal doom science about the Great Barrier Reef”.
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