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‘Righto, what’s his name then?’

11 August 2018

9:00 AM

11 August 2018

9:00 AM

As he winds down his five-year tenure as an Australian Human Rights Commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane is redoubling the political divisiveness that defined his performance in the role. His attitude towards the late cartoonist Bill Leak, against whose famous cartoon about Aboriginal dysfunction in the Northern Territory, published on 4 August, 2016, he tried to generate a campaign of complaint, is a case in point.

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