A lecturer sacked by the Australian National University after swimming naked and kissing a student was fairly dismissed, the industrial umpire has found after an appeal by the ANU against an earlier decision.
In February, the Fair Work Commission handed down the initial decision, saying that there was no valid reason for dismissing the academic because his encounter with the student was consensual and had not violated any university policies.
It said then that the academic went to a beach to look at bioluminescence (when water sparkles in moonlight) with a student during a retreat on the NSW south coast in November 2017.
