WELCOME TO THE AHRC FUTURE

Let us now look ten years ahead, to your future AHRC-designed Australia.

Let us now look ten years ahead, to your future AHRC-designed Australia.

A little-seen video made last year by the Australian Human Rights Commission detailed Tim Soutphommasane’s plans for reshaping our nation:

It is July 2026, and Australians awake to glorious news that massive cultural diversity targets within government, universities and business have been exceeded. No longer is Australia an Anglo-dominated backwater, thanks to a leader and his ten-year plan.

“A driving force was Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane,” the newsreader continues effusively, before crossing to archival footage from ten years prior featuring the visionary himself. “Australia’s a very multicultural society,” said he, stern-faced and with much gravitas, “but we don’t see that diversity represented yet in our senior leadership … It’s pretty striking, and simply it’s not good enough.”

“Passionate words from Tim Soutphommasane,” adds the newsreader admiringly, repeating the great man’s name for posterity. All that was missing in this video were the shots of cheering citizens taking to the streets in spontaneous demonstrations of joy and thanks.

And now the video itself is missing.

UPDATE:

Great to be back in Laos. Here as part of an Australian govt delegation for the Australian-Lao human rights dialogue pic.twitter.com/DzqfRbd02K

— Tim Soutphommasane (@timsout) July 17, 2017