Tim Soutphommasane

Tim Soutphommasane has been Australia’s Race Discrimination Commissioner since 2013 and concludes his five-year term in August 2018. Prior to joining the Australian Human Rights Commission, he was a political philosopher and commentator. He is the author of four books: I’m Not Racist But… (NewSouth, 2015); Don’t Go Back To Where You Came From (NewSouth, 2012); The Virtuous Citizen (Cambridge University Press, 2012); and Reclaiming Patriotism (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

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Race and representation

EssayLIKE THE MEMBERS of every nation, Australians have fairly stable ideas about the kind of people we are, to the point of there being a clichéd sense of national identity. It goes something like this: we are fair and...

Surrendering nationalism

EssayTEN YEARS AGO, most Australians quietly cringed when Pauline Hanson wrapped herself in a cape of blue to launch her One Nation Party. Yet today there's nothing more fashionable or patriotic than draping oneself in the national flag. When,...

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