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This is interesting, however, the discussion re the level of damages is simply (with respect!) wrong. $10k is not the standard award for discrimination – at least, not in my experience at the Bar. My cases – for example Katja Fares v Box Hill College of TAFE – $55k in about 1994 (Equal Opportunity Board as it was) – sex and race discrimination (when sex was recognised as the category!), Sally Garrity v Commonwealth Bank of Australia – $153k from Australian Human Rights Commission – disability discrimination … Both were landmark cases and awards highest at the time, but surely it hasn’t gone backwards – of course not suggesting the level wrong in this case albeit the judgment is of course …