[14] At the one-year mark of his candidature on 20 March 2007, Noonan presented his thesis-in-progress to staff and students at QUT as part of his Confirmation Seminar.
[15] The material presented at the seminar "had been screened and approved by an ethics audit committee, an external psychologist and representatives of a disability group.
"[16] Two senior academics at the university, Gary MacLennan and John Hookham, took exception to the subject matter Noonan presented, which included clips from the unfinished TV show.
"[19][20] After the seminar, in April 2007, MacLennan and Hookham published an attack on the thesis in the Higher Education section of the national daily newspaper The Australian.
[21] In their article, they wrote that they could "no longer put up with the misanthropic and amoral trash produced under the rubric of postmodernist, post-structuralist thought", and the "last straw" was the Noonan thesis presentation.
MacLennan and Hookham wrote: "For us, it was a moment of great shame and a burning testimony to the power of post-structuralist thought to corrupt.
[23][24] A subsequent review of the ethical approval process for the project found "no evidence of harm, discomfort, ridicule or exploitation to the participants".
[25] The five-person panel noted "the positive enthusiasm of the participants involved, their treatment with dignity and sensitivity, and the warm way in which they were welcomed into the particular community where filming had occurred".
[26] QUT suspended the lecturers for six months without pay on misconduct charges following complaints from a student and an academic,[27] a decision which provoked debate on various blog sites.
[29][30] Professor Stuart Cunningham, Director of the ARC Centre for Excellence in Creative Industries, wrote a piece in defense of QUT and Noonan in The Courier-Mail called 'Taking Arts into the Digital Era'.
Based on their false description of my footage, Hookham and MacLennan emailed undergraduate students, inciting them to rally against me, to condemn my work and all those associated with me.
[33] MacLennan and Hookham initiated legal action against QUT[34][35] and later accepted a confidential payout and resigned from the university.
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