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"Two Queensland academics are asking the Federal Court to set aside their suspension pending a review of the fairness of the decision to suspend them. Queensland University of Technology lecturers Gary MacLennan and John Hookham, from the Creative Industries faculty, were suspended after they campaigned against a PhD project which they say exploited the disabled for entertainment.
They were suspended for six months without pay in June after they wrote an article in The Australian newspaper attacking doctoral student Michael Noonan's reality TV-style film project, originally titled Laughing at the Disabled.
QUT's code of conduct says differences of opinion must be met with rational debate, not vilification or bullying. It also forbids behaviour that "may be distressing, offensive or humiliating". Mr MacLennan and Mr Hookham have accused the university of attacking freedom of speech. Mr Noonan's project - which continues - has since been retitled, Laughing with the Disabled.
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