The changing nature of national identity and its relationship to other forms of identity

通过提供民族主义和其他形式的身份之间的关系的文化理解，这个项目设置为理解澳大利亚身份的性质的背景，因为我们走上了从后帝国的外围管辖权的一个潜在的更开放，慷慨和建设性的政体困难的通道。该项目有助于最近增加的国家研究优先事项类别，“保护澳大利亚：了解我们的地区和世界”-不是在确定“威胁”澳大利亚的意义上，而是在更重要的长期意义上了解我们自己在全球，历史和比较的背景下。

By providing a cultural understanding of the relationship between nationalism and other forms of identity, this project sets the background for understanding the nature of Australian identity as we embark upon the difficult passage from a post-imperial peripheral jurisdiction to a potentially more open, generous and constructive polity. The project contributes to the recently added National Research Priorities category, 'Safeguarding Australia: Understanding our Region and the World' - not in the sense of identifying 'the threat' to Australia, but rather in the much more important long-term sense of understanding ourselves in a global, historical and comparative context.