I know that Dr Tim Soutphommasane, our Race Commissioner, has been maligned in certain quarters, but I want to thank him for solving a terrible personal problem that has beset me for months. If you ask me, he has more than earned his $450,000 this year. The problem I had was that for a long time I had been wracked with guilt about a painting I own and I had been beside myself trying to work out what to do about it.