'The progressives have been the ones asking the interesting questions of Australian identity: our relationship with Asia, how to make reconciliation work, how to balance enterprise with fairness and the case for saving Australia's battered degraded environment. So it's fitting that Tim Soutphommasane makes the case for progressive politics in defining Australian patriotism. When right-wingers claim the national story as their own - white picket fences, Don Bradman, Gallipoli - we need books like this to remind us that Australian citizenship belongs to all of us.' Bob Carr

Tim Soutphommasane is a Doctoral Researcher in Political Theory, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford.

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The dog whistle excuse; 2. Liberal patriotism and an Australian tradition; 3. Citizenship and multiculturalism; 4. Australian progressives and nation-building; 5. Republican renewal; 6. Reclaiming patriotism; Notes; Index.