Media Release By Professor Andrew Fraser

7 August 2006

The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) stands accused of putting its thumb onto the scales of justice, giving an unfair edge to lawyers for a black African complainant in their high-pressure negotiations with Professor Andrew Fraser, formerly a legal academic at Macquarie University.

Facing the threat of Federal Court action on a charge of racial vilification, Professor Fraser agreed to conciliation proceedings with prominent Sydney lawyers George Newhouse and David Knoll acting for Mr Safi Hareer, Secretary-General of the Sudanese Darfurian Union.

From the outset, Mr Hareer's lawyers demanded that Professor Fraser acknowledge that HREOC had found that his letter to the Parramatta Sun last year contravened the Racial Discrimination Act. Since the HREOC officials present throughout the conciliation process raised no objection to that language, Professor Fraser agreed to a draft Statement including those words.

Then, after the draft Statement (reproduced below) was signed by both parties HREOC officials informed Professor Fraser that, strictly speaking, the Commission had no power to hold that he had contravened the Act. That was a matter solely for the courts. They suggested that the Statement should be revised to say, instead, that Professor Fraser's letter may have contravened the Act.

Professor Fraser took the view that this was a significant change, incorporating into the Statement the clear implication that he may not have contravened the Act after all. Accordingly, he suggested a further, consequent, amendment, asking Mr Hareer now to accept, in the spirit of conciliation, that Professor Fraser's letter to the newspaper should not be construed as an expression of racial hatred.

Professor Fraser was prepared to have the Federal Court determine the merits of the case in the event that Mr Hareer did not agree. In Professor Fraser's view, once the Commission conceded that he had not been found to have contravened the Act, then the draft Statement indicating otherwise was null and void. Thus, the conciliation process had not yet reached an agreed conclusion. HREOC, however, rejected that view and allowed the draft Statement to stand as a legally binding Conciliation Agreement.

Professor Fraser does not resile from anything in the draft Statement other than the misrepresentation in the first paragraph. The settlement has been soured, however, by Mr Hareer's sullen refusal to acknowledge that Professor Fraser does not "hate" him or his people.

Professor Fraser is genuinely sorry that Mr Hareer or others similarly situated were offended when he predicted that the Commonwealth government's ill-advised black African immigration program will pile up ever more insoluble problems for the future. But Mr Hareer and his legal team are in denial, refusing to recognise the costs of African migration in particular, and of a multiracial society, generally.

Professor Fraser remains convinced that "experience practically everywhere in the world tells us that an expanding black population is a sure-fire recipe for rising levels of crime, violence and a wide range of other social problems." The President of HREOC rejected the suggestion that Professor Fraser's earlier expression of this view was made reasonably and in good faith on a matter of public interest.

Unfortunately, even before HREOC issued that ruling, it was a matter of public record that the dangerously dysfunctional behaviour endemic to sub-Saharan black Africa societies and the black African diaspora in the West is being replicated here in Australia.

In a statement to the NSW Parliament delivered on March 8, 2006, Premier Morris Iemma confirmed that the large-scale migration of black Africans into his State has resulted in "increased crime rates," hitherto unknown public health problems, growing gangs of alienated African young men unlikely ever to be assimilated into Australian society, and a wide range of other social problems.

However painful it might be to acknowledge the truth, Mr Hareer, Mr Newhouse, Mr Knoll and the President of HREOC, the Hon John von Doussa, QC, should pull their heads out of the sand and face the increasingly frightening realities of life in multiracial western Sydney.

In a concerted campaign to silence him, Professor Fraser has been branded publicly a "bigot" and pronounced unfit to teach or even to publish his "racist" views by fellow academics. Undeterred, he sounds another warning that the Third World colonisation of Australia is dissolving our core national identity as a community of memory, language, religion and racial origins. Indeed, Professor Fraser suggests, we are sleepwalking down the path to national suicide.

Professor Andrew Fraser
prof.fraser@optusnet.com.au

STATEMENT

The statement made by me in the Parramatta Sun on 6 July 2005 has been held by the President of HREOC to have contravened the Commonwealth Racial Discrimination Act 1975.
[HREOC's revised first paragraph would have read: "The statement made by me in the Parramatta Sun.has been considered by the President.and may have contravened the.Act.]

Mr Safi Hareer complained to HREOC that my letter caused substantial hurt to Sudanese people living in the Parramatta-Blacktown area. I am sorry for whatever distress and embarrassment my letter in fact caused to Mr Hareer and other members of the Sudanese Australian community who have successfully settled in Australia.

We agree that criminal behaviour is undertaken by people of all races, religions, ethnicities and national origins. I remain convinced that some population groups are more likely to display a higher level of criminal behaviour than others.

We can all agree that respectful policy debate about immigration policy is a healthy part of our democracy. We agree as well that immigration and refugee policy-makers must assess the relative capacity of particular population groups to integrate/assimilate successfully into Australian society and the work government must do to facilitate that integration/assimilation.

Nevertheless, we all breathe the same air in this country. All lawfully admitted migrants may contribute to building a better Australia for future generations.

All of us have an obligation to contribute to an Australian society based on mutual respect, but that respect must be earned by productive and peaceful behaviour. All of us have an obligation not to stir up hatred of our fellow men and women on the basis of their origin or skin colour. [My proposed amendment would have added: "Following a successful conciliation process, Mr Hareer now accepts that my letter to the Parramatta Sun should not be construed as an expression of racial hatred.]

Professor Andrew Fraser 7th August 2006