One of my good friends is an Australian, and he has implied in the past that indigenous Australians are infamously lazy.
I'm Australian, your friend must keep some shitty company to come to conclusions like that.
Yeah I agree that no university should allow students of one race, ethnicity, religion etc access to resources that others can't use. Edit: Re-reading, this isn't quite that. Apparently the ward was previously established as being for Torres strait and aboriginal students, and other rooms were available. It's okay for safe spaces to exist for these students, I feel, due to the extreme racism thrown at them by the moronic general public. It's also why aboriginal and Torres Strait can get additional benefits and priority whilst job seeking. Many of them are still being treated really poorly.
White people aren't missing out here. Aboriginal students aren't being forced to only use this room.
QUT is a university which is somewhat known for being extremely supportive of women, minority groups, other cultural groups that are often perceived as less priviliged etc, but almost to a fault. It's the same university that did the income by race/gender bake sale.
The main reason the lawsuit is going ahead is this part of the law:
The section, which makes it unlawful to offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate another person or group of people because of their race, colour or ethnic origin, was used in 2011 to find that conservative News Corp commentator Andrew Bolt had breached the law.
So you effectively can't offend people of other race/ethnicity, whether you meant to give offence or not. It's pretty ridiculous. I personally don't support the continuation of this law.