April 14, 2006

Australian Agency Criticizes Scholar

By DAVID COHEN

A law professor in Australia vowed last week to defy a demand by a powerful government agency that he apologize to the country's Sudanese community for publicly linking African immigrants to a host of social ills.

That demand came in a landmark ruling by the country's Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission against Andrew Fraser, a Canadian-born scholar at Macquarie University, in Sydney. The agency, an independent statutory body whose responsibilities include ruling on