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Akkkademic won’t apologise.

Akkkademic! Hahahahaha, very droll, we know - but not a term we use lightly. As previously reported, Andrew Fraser was recently mixing it up with the American Ku Klux Klan.

Now, on with the show.

From the Oz:

No apology for linking Africans to crime
Greg Roberts
April 04, 2006

ACADEMIC Andrew Fraser will defy the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission by not apologising to the Sudanese community for his study linking African refugees to high crime rates.

In a landmark ruling that raises fresh questions about the limits to which academics can engage in public debate, HREOC chairman John von Doussa has found Professor Fraser’s comments were unlawful because they amounted to a “sweeping generalisation” that was not backed by research.

News brief · 4 April 2006

Australia Day shooters out on bail.

Refresh your memory here, and then…

From the Oz:

Teens get bail after ‘racist shootings’
April 03, 2006

FIVE youths who allegedly went on a racist shooting spree in central Queensland on Australia Day have been released on bail.

Shane Matthew McPherson, Scott Henry Warwick-Day, Troy Keith Zornig, Hayden John Nitz and Timothy Perry, all 17, appeared in Rockhampton Magistrates Court today.

The youths are alleged to have shot at least two teenagers in the back with air rifles in the streets of Rockhampton in random, drive-by shootings on January 26.

The court was told the group drove around with the intention of shooting Aborigines.

News brief · 3 April 2006

HREOC slam Fraser

Don’t take our word for it. Go straight to the horses mouth, or in this case, the bigot’s mouth.

Fight dem back · 2 April 2006 · Discussion