ACT government ordered to pay former employee $265,000 for discrimination over 'irrelevant' criminal history
ACT government ordered to pay former employee $265,000 for discrimination over 'irrelevant' criminal history

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ACT government ordered to pay former employee $265k after finding she was discriminated against

Why did the writer keep putting "irrelevant" in scare quotes when the Tribunal found that the lady's criminal history was, in fact, irrelevant?
Reads more like a quote to me, so the author isn't the one claiming it's irrelevant.