Tim Soutphommasane
Tim Soutphommasane is a political philosopher at Monash University, and regular columnist.
Higher taxes could fund a better Australia
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Tim Soutphommasane There was irony in the public occasion of Margaret Thatcher's grand funeral procession in London.
We must stamp on the cockroach of racism
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Tim Soutphommasane Racism is like a cockroach of civilised society. It is vile, revolting, and it breeds prodigiously. Few things appear capable of eradicating it.