[rnmwfQ3f]

So the issue isn't event that they didn't give awards to women or ethnic minorities, it's that the women and ethnic minorities weren't available for the group photo.

This response makes no sense.

    The decision, announced by the Snow Medical Research Foundation on 7 March, comes after the
    University of Melbourne released a picture of six white men — but no women or people of colour
    — receiving honorary degrees, one of the university’s highest accolades, in a ceremony on 28
    February
    
    ...
    
    James McCluskey, deputy vice-chancellor of research at the university, says that other people,
    including three women and an Indigenous man, were scheduled to receive honorary awards that day
    but weren’t able to make it.

[chaircher]

This is definitely a thing I've observed (marginalised groups being missed out of the photos). Why weren't they able to make it? Was it because they were only asked last minute? Is it because they keep getting cut out the loop? Some sort of passive protest? A deliberately awkward schedule?

[belorn]

I remember a story a few years ago where the woman missing from the photo was missing because... they were in a women-only meetup during the conference, followed by several interviews because they were the only woman there.

[fnordpiglet]

Or there’s a pandemic?

[sn00tz00t]

Why do they capitalise 'Indigenous' but 'white' remains without capital?

[aahortwwy]

To make it clear they're referring to Indigenous Australians (a particular group of people) rather than using the term as an adjective, like "white" is being used.