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In the absence of any complaints to HR, the Federal Circuit Court has rejected that racist and crude comments towards a supervisor were commonplace, and dismissed her discrimination and s-xual harassment claims.

Judge Robert Cameron said based on the evidence, it was improbable that numerous managers had behaved in the ways alleged, "uninterruptedly over an extended period".

The transport supervisor for office equipment distributor, Winc Australia, claimed that between 2008 and 2020 the employer and seven workers breached the Commonwealth Racial and Sex Discrimination Acts.

She said she was subjected to comments about her race (Polynesian and Pacific Islander), sex, family responsibilities and pregnancies (seven during her tenure)...