Tim Soutphommasane
Professor Tim Soutphommasane is a political theorist at the University of Sydney and a former race discrimination commissioner. He will soon take up an appointment as chief diversity officer at the University of Oxford.
Opinion
UK politics
Can a rookie PM stop the riots without adding fuel to the fires?
Labour has responded judiciously to the recent ‘far-right thuggery’. But can it fix the UK’s immigration issues without giving Nigel Farage political oxygen?
- by Tim Soutphommasane
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Opinion
Racism
‘Where are you from?’ If it’s Australia you’re behind UK on racial progress
Royal aide Lady Susan Hussey might be spared criticism for her racist gaffe in Australia, where racial minorities who speak up can be treated as ungrateful.
- by Tim Soutphommasane
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
Now we’ve opened up, let’s never go back to Fortress Australia
As we all enjoy taking the first steps towards living with COVID, it’s time for us as a nation to say “Never again” to a return to Fortress Australia.
- by Tim Soutphommasane and Marc Stears
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
Left behind: progressives need to catch up with Perrottet and stop being so afraid of freedom
The left risks being marooned in the pre-vaccine world of 2020, still criticising Liberal political leaders for exposing Australians to COVID rather than offering their own alternative. There is no optimism, no energy, no hope.
- by Tim Soutphommasane and Marc Stears
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
Your freedom secured with a jab: the incentive that could spur our nation of vaccination laggards
Australia’s vaccination rate is ranked 49th of 50 among the world’s wealthiest countries. We should reward those who get vaccinated - not with cash or lottery tickets but with greater freedoms.
- by Tim Soutphommasane and Marc Stears
Opinion
Diversity
Why Australia lags rest of world in political diversity
US President Joe Biden has announced one of the most diverse cabinets in US history. Scott Morrison’s government is way behind.
- by Tim Soutphommasane
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
Pandemic strips away the myth of equality
Crises have the power to reveal who we are. One of the things this pandemic has done is reveal just how much inequality there is around us.
- by Tim Soutphommasane
Opinion
Trump's America
'A story about decadence': One reason we’re so absorbed by what’s happening in Washington
The Trump administration has embodied a particular American cultural current with which Australians are intimately familiar.
- by Tim Soutphommasane
Opinion
Gladys Berejiklian
Berejiklian may have let her standards drop - but we can't drop ours
The COVID-19 pandemic has compelled us to trust our public institutions and political leaders again. And our trust has been repaid. But we may be suspending our sense of ethics and reason as well. And that is dangerous.
- by Tim Soutphommasane
Opinion
Diversity
Elsewhere they get it but the Australian media is still living in White Australia
It has been nearly five decades since an official multiculturalism was adopted in Australia. Yet that has had limited visible impact on our media.
- by Tim Soutphommasane
Opinion
University
Proposed overhaul of university fees nothing short of radical
Liberal arts graduates are taught to question power and democracy. It's tempting to see this move as a step towards cultivating compliant, "quiet Australians" instead.
- by Tim Soutphommasane
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