Andrew Fraser, Australian race-row professor, to publish views
Professor Fraser chides the revisionist historian Keith Windschuttle for being "tender minded" in his recent book on the policy.
Mr Windschuttle defends the policy from accusations of racism but, like its critics on the Left, hetoo refuses to accept the reality of racial difference, Professor Fraser writes.
Starting with a letter to a suburban newspaper about Sudanese immigration, Professor Fraser, who taught public law, has made a series of claims about race, intelligence, crime and social cohesion.
Macquarie vice-chancellor Di Yerbury condemned him for speaking outside his expertise, although she cited threats and safety concerns when suspending him from teaching.
"The fact that the Deakin Law Review has seen fit to publish my article ... so quickly after the media controversy over my public comments exposes the claim made by Professor Yerbury and others that I have been speaking outside my area of expertise as an obvious furphy," Professor Fraser told The Australian.
Professor Yerbury had not had time to read the article yesterday but said: "If it is an article which deals with the alleged links between race and IQ, or race and propensity for violence, I am advised that the relevant expertise would at least have to include cognitive psychology, genetics and anthropology.
"These are not Drew Fraser's qualifications."
Deakin journal editor and law lecturer James McConvill said there had been "some hesitation (about publishing the article), I guess, simply because of the drama that Macquarie got itself into".
He said the Fraser article dealt with public policy and fell within the journal's charter "to raise legal, moral and social issues".
Journal policy was to act on advice from "double blind" academic review -- neither author nor reviewer should know each other's identity.