A professor at Adelaide University is facing a petition with thousands of signatures calling for her removal due to her social views.

3AW Mornings host Tom Elliott said that the idea that holding a different political view should be grounds for being sacked was wrong.

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“It’s a particularly chilling state of [the] world we live in at the moment,” he said.

Press PLAY to hear the Adelaide University professor detail her fears

“They’re coming for my family,” Dr Joanna Howe, Professor of Law at Adelaide University, told Tom Elliott.

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