There is a strong protectionist streak in the national psyche, in the past, this had its most potent expression in the form of the Fortress Australia immigration policy.

Tim Soutphommasane

Thinethavone "Tim" Soutphommasane ( soot-POM-?-sahn; born 1982) is an Australian academic, social commentator and former public servant. He was Australia's Race Discrimination Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission from 2013 to 2018. He has previously been a political staffer for Bob Carr, a columnist with The Age and The Australian newspapers, a lecturer at Sydney and Monash Universities, and a research fellow with the Per Capita think tank. He is a member of the board of the National Australia Day Council, and an ex officio member of the Council for Multicultural Australia.

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