You can protest, you can protest peacefully, but keep things civil.

- Tim Soutphommasane

If anyone has engaged unlawful activity, they should be held to account with the full force of the law.

- Tim Soutphommasane

We have a natural constant craving for leadership. Democracy is always a fragile and imperfect achievement. Yet a distinct feeling of malaise in our …

- Tim Soutphommasane

Anti-Muslim protests represent a fringe of our society that's seeking to promote hatred and division.

- Tim Soutphommasane

We know that a large majority of the Australian society is extremely comfortable with a multicultural society, that we accept that living in a democr…

- Tim Soutphommasane

No-one wants to see violence of any kind on our streets, certainly not any violence that's justified by extreme nationalist ideas or that targets peo…

- Tim Soutphommasane

There are many in public life who deserve only our praise and admiration. But there are too many who are products of a class that knows little other …

- Tim Soutphommasane

People have a right to protest peacefully, but there's absolutely no excuse for anyone to be conducting a campaign of intimidation that may be direct…

- Tim Soutphommasane

People should not be responding to bigoted ugliness with any ugliness of their own.

- Tim Soutphommasane