A Brisbane professor has been ordered to pay several thousand dollars after her racial discrimination complaint against police outside a Fortitude Valley nightclub was rejected.
A decision by a Queensland tribunal to order a Brisbane professor to pay several thousand dollars in legal fees after she lost a racial discrimination complaint against police will have a “chilling effect” on the state’s most marginalised people, her lawyers say.
Online profiles say Chelsea Watego is the current professor of indigenous health at QUT’s School of Public Health and Social Work. Watego said she was given less favourable treatment than the white man on the grounds of race, in contravention of the Anti-Discrimination Act. But the complaint was dismissed, and in a decision on costs published by the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal on Friday, Watego was ordered to pay $7500.This was less than the amount sought by police and the state, which was $26,119.50 for counsel costs.
“This genuine belief can be seen in her reactions that evening to the events that happened, and from the way she gave evidence about it at the hearing. He said what police did that evening was “justified and probably necessary”, and an “objective assessment would inevitably have concluded that the merits of the complaint were poor”.
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