So the issue isn't event that they didn't give awards to women or ethnic minorities, it's that the women and ethnic minorities weren't available for the group photo.
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The decision, announced by the Snow Medical Research Foundation on 7 March, comes after the
University of Melbourne released a picture of six white men — but no women or people of colour
— receiving honorary degrees, one of the university’s highest accolades, in a ceremony on 28
February
...
James McCluskey, deputy vice-chancellor of research at the university, says that other people,
including three women and an Indigenous man, were scheduled to receive honorary awards that day
but weren’t able to make it.
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