Drew Fraser
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Andrew William Fraser (born 1944) is a Canadian-born academic and was latterly an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Law at Macquarie University
in Sydney
, New South Wales
, Australia
. Fraser holds a BA (Hons) and an LLB from Queen's University
, an LLM from Harvard University
, and an MA from the University of North Carolina
.
" and "Experience everywhere in the world shows us that an expanding black population is a sure-fire recipe for increases in crime, violence and other social problems".
Macquarie University responded that it distanced itself from Professor Fraser's remarks, but backed the right of academics to say what they wish in a responsible way. The acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor John Loxton, stated there was no place for racism at the university, but it "recognises and protects academic freedom as essential to the conduct of teaching, research and scholarship".
Fraser was accused of being affiliated with White Supremacist groups, including the Patriotic Youth League
(PYL), by the anti-racist group FightDemBack. Although both he and the PYL initially denied any connection, Fraser admitted he had attended PYL meetings and signed up to the PYL website after video footage of a PYL member describing him as an official legal adviser surfaced.
Following an outcry from Sydney's Sudanese community, Macquarie University Vice-Chancellor Dianne Yerbury
on July 29, 2005 decided to suspend Fraser from teaching any further at the campus on the grounds that the race debate was "threatening to spill over into the classroom" and was "affecting the university's ability to operate effectively."
Macquarie University offered to pay out the final year of his contract but Fraser declined, describing the offer as a "dishonorable discharge".
On this incident, Fraser wrote:
In August 2005, more than 300 Macquarie University staff and students attended a forum on racism and free speech, at which Fraser (as well as Sudanese community and University members) was allowed to put his views from the floor.
Fraser's suspension ended in mid-2006, when an early-retirement package took effect.
In September 2005, Fraser wrote an article advocating a return of the White Australia Policy
, entitled "Rethinking the White Australia Policy". The article was set to be published in the law journal of Deakin University
, but the University directed the journal not to publish it. "Rethinking the White Australia Policy" has since been published and circulated across the internet.
In the controversial article, Fraser wrote:
In December 2005, Fraser further criticised multiracialism in Australia by writing an article regarding the 2005 Cronulla riots
. As with the full version of "Rethinking the White Australia Policy", the article was only published on the internet, most notably at VDARE.com. He has subsequently written on racial and ethno-nationalism within the Tea Party movement
for the far Right webzine AlternativeRight.com.
A complaint from the Sydney Sudanese community about the original newspaper letter was upheld on 31 March 2006 by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, on whose direction Fraser reluctantly apologised for his remarks.
Andrew Fraser addressed the American Renaissance
Conference in February 2006, alongside speakers such as Nick Griffin
of the British National Party
and Professor J. Philippe Rushton
. This was followed up later in the year with appearances at the Inverell political forum in March and at the Sydney Forum in August alongside speakers who included Jim Saleam
of the Australia First Party
.
peoples in North America, Australia and elsewhere to defend their ethnic identity and interests in the postmodern, multicultural age.
Macquarie University
Macquarie University is an Australian public teaching and research university located in Sydney, with its main campus situated in Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of Sydney...
in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. Fraser holds a BA (Hons) and an LLB from Queen's University
Queen's University
Queen's University, , is a public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841, the university pre-dates the founding of Canada by 26 years. Queen's holds more more than of land throughout Ontario as well as Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England...
, an LLM from Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, and an MA from the University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States...
.
Views on immigration
In July 2005, Fraser received national attention in Australia with a letter to his local newspaper, signed with his academic title, in which he claimed that accommodating Sudanese refugees threatened to turn Australia into "a colony of the Third WorldThird World
The term Third World arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either capitalism and NATO , or communism and the Soviet Union...
" and "Experience everywhere in the world shows us that an expanding black population is a sure-fire recipe for increases in crime, violence and other social problems".
Macquarie University responded that it distanced itself from Professor Fraser's remarks, but backed the right of academics to say what they wish in a responsible way. The acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor John Loxton, stated there was no place for racism at the university, but it "recognises and protects academic freedom as essential to the conduct of teaching, research and scholarship".
Fraser was accused of being affiliated with White Supremacist groups, including the Patriotic Youth League
Patriotic Youth League
The Patriotic Youth League was a youth organisation in Australia. They described themselves as 'radical nationalists', however the media and other groups labelled them Neo-Nazis. Their logo was the Eureka Flag....
(PYL), by the anti-racist group FightDemBack. Although both he and the PYL initially denied any connection, Fraser admitted he had attended PYL meetings and signed up to the PYL website after video footage of a PYL member describing him as an official legal adviser surfaced.
Following an outcry from Sydney's Sudanese community, Macquarie University Vice-Chancellor Dianne Yerbury
Dianne Yerbury
Professor Emerita Dianne Yerbury AO is an Australian academic and university administrator. She was the Vice-Chancellor of Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia from 1987 to 2005....
on July 29, 2005 decided to suspend Fraser from teaching any further at the campus on the grounds that the race debate was "threatening to spill over into the classroom" and was "affecting the university's ability to operate effectively."
Macquarie University offered to pay out the final year of his contract but Fraser declined, describing the offer as a "dishonorable discharge".
On this incident, Fraser wrote:
Truth is no longer a defence when it comes to charges of academic deviance. Instead of an invitation to debate the issues, the Vice-Chancellor's office sought to get me off campus as soon as possible by offering to buy out my contract. The head of Human Resources made it clear to me that my public comments were damaging their efforts to market Macquarie University to foreign students.
When I refused the offer on the grounds that it amounted to a dishonourable discharge, VC Di Yerbury, ordered that I be suspended from teaching. This was justified on the specious grounds that the safety of students supposedly had been threatened by, among others, my supporters! For what must be the first time in academic history, alleged threats by outsiders to disrupt classes were met, not by tightening security to deal with the disrupters, but by getting rid of the disruptee.
In August 2005, more than 300 Macquarie University staff and students attended a forum on racism and free speech, at which Fraser (as well as Sudanese community and University members) was allowed to put his views from the floor.
Fraser's suspension ended in mid-2006, when an early-retirement package took effect.
In September 2005, Fraser wrote an article advocating a return of the White Australia Policy
White Australia policy
The White Australia policy comprises various historical policies that intentionally restricted "non-white" immigration to Australia. From origins at Federation in 1901, the polices were progressively dismantled between 1949-1973....
, entitled "Rethinking the White Australia Policy". The article was set to be published in the law journal of Deakin University
Deakin University
Deakin University is an Australian public university with nearly 40,000 higher education students in 2010. It receives more than A$600 million in operating revenue annually, and controls more than A$1.3 billion in assets. It received more than A$35 million in research income in 2009 and had 835...
, but the University directed the journal not to publish it. "Rethinking the White Australia Policy" has since been published and circulated across the internet.
In the controversial article, Fraser wrote:
Given the relentless and revolutionary assault on their historic national identity, white Australians now face a life-or-death struggle to preserve their homeland. Whether effective resistance to their displacement and dispossession can be mounted is another question. Unlike other racial, ethnic or religious groups well-equipped to practice the politics of identity, white Australians lack a strong, cohesive sense of ethnic solidarity. As a consequence, ordinary Australians favouring a moratorium on non-white immigration cannot count on effective leadership or support from their co-ethnics among political, intellectual and corporate elites. On the contrary, our still predominantly Anglo-Australian rulers are indifferent; some profit from, and others actually take pride in their active collaboration with the Third World colonization of Australia. None of the major parties, indeed, not one member of the Commonwealth Parliament, offers citizens the option of voting to defend and nurture Australia's Anglo-European identity. The problem, in short, is clear: The Australian nation is bereft of a responsible ruling class.
In December 2005, Fraser further criticised multiracialism in Australia by writing an article regarding the 2005 Cronulla riots
2005 Cronulla riots
The 2005 Cronulla riots were a series of sectarian clashes and mob violence originating in Cronulla, New South Wales and spreading, over the next few nights, to additional Sydney suburbs....
. As with the full version of "Rethinking the White Australia Policy", the article was only published on the internet, most notably at VDARE.com. He has subsequently written on racial and ethno-nationalism within the Tea Party movement
Tea Party movement
The Tea Party movement is an American populist political movement that is generally recognized as conservative and libertarian, and has sponsored protests and supported political candidates since 2009...
for the far Right webzine AlternativeRight.com.
A complaint from the Sydney Sudanese community about the original newspaper letter was upheld on 31 March 2006 by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, on whose direction Fraser reluctantly apologised for his remarks.
Andrew Fraser addressed the American Renaissance
American Renaissance (magazine)
-Cancellation of 2010, 2011 conferences:In February 2010, following protests to hotel management of several hotels, which Jared Taylor claimed included some death threats, American Renaissance's biennial conference was canceled...
Conference in February 2006, alongside speakers such as Nick Griffin
Nick Griffin
Nicholas John "Nick" Griffin is a British politician, chairman of the British National Party and Member of the European Parliament for North West England....
of the British National Party
British National Party
The British National Party is a British far-right political party formed as a splinter group from the National Front by John Tyndall in 1982...
and Professor J. Philippe Rushton
J. Philippe Rushton
Jean Philippe Rushton is a Canadian psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario who is most widely known for his work on racial group differences, such as research on race and intelligence, race and crime, and the application of r/K selection theory to humans in his book Race,...
. This was followed up later in the year with appearances at the Inverell political forum in March and at the Sydney Forum in August alongside speakers who included Jim Saleam
Jim Saleam
Dr James Saleam is an Australian far-right activist and the current chairman of the Australia First Party. Saleam was a former member of the short-lived National Socialist Party of Australia in the early 1970s.Saleam co-founded National Action on Anzac Day, 1982...
of the Australia First Party
Australia First Party
The Australia First Party is a minor far-right political party in Australia that is federally registered and is also registered to contest local elections in New South Wales. The Party is led by Jim Saleam. Saleam is the Chairman of the Party in New South Wales but plays a major role in the Party...
.
Writings
In 2011 Fraser published The WASP Question, in which he examined the failure of Anglo-SaxonAnglo-Saxon
Anglo-Saxon may refer to:* Anglo-Saxons, a group that invaded Britain** Old English, their language** Anglo-Saxon England, their history, one of various ships* White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, an ethnicity* Anglo-Saxon economy, modern macroeconomic term...
peoples in North America, Australia and elsewhere to defend their ethnic identity and interests in the postmodern, multicultural age.
Books
- The Spirit of the Laws: Republicanism and the Unfinished Project of Modernity (1990)
- Reinventing Aristocracy: The Constitutional Reformation of Corporate Governance (1998)
- The WASP Question (2011)
Articles
- "Reinventing a Ruling Class". TELOSTELOS (journal)Telos is an academic journal published in the United States. It was founded in May 1968 to provide the New Left with a coherent theoretical perspective. It sought to expand the Husserlian diagnosis of "the crisis of European sciences" to prefigure a particular program of social reconstruction...
128 (Summer 2004). New York: Telos Press - "Monarchs and Miracles: Australia's Need for a Patriot King". The Occidental Quarterly 5(1) (Spring 2005). Atlanta, GA: Charles Martel Society
External links
- Macquarie University
- "Rethinking the White Australia Policy" - Fraser's article submitted to the Deakin Law ReviewDeakin Law ReviewDeakin Law Review is an Australian peer-reviewed law review published biannually by Deakin University School of Law. It was founded in 1993 and is edited by Daniel Meagher and Elizabeth Adeney....
. - Professor Fraser on the 2005 Cronulla riots
- Reversing the Racial Revolution - speech given at the Inverell Forum, March 17, 2006
- FightDemBack's archive of material pertaining to Fraser