Stuff Magazine’s Article on Anne-Marie Brady

Stuff Magazine wrote a supportive article about Anne-Marie Brady on 9 October 2020, detailing an open letter signed by over 150 China specialists in support of her. The letter calls on the University of Canterbury (UC) to apologize for its administrative harassment of Brady. The letter was summarized by Stuff as expressing “disappointment that UC had not promptly explained its position on the complaints against Brady nor clarified that its decision to review did not amount to an endorsement of those complaints.”

The university refused to comment on the latest Stuff article. Stuff quoted the open letter as saying that the university’s “silence has been interpreted as collaboration in slander against a very distinguished scholar whose work has been consistently based on sound social scientific methodology.”

According to Stuff Magazine, “The signatories asked de la Rey to apologise to Brady on behalf of UC for reviewing the matter instead of following the usual practice in academic disagreements of publishing criticism. They requested Wright apologise for lending the complaints credence with his comments, ‘whether or not he intended that’.”