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

通过提供对民族主义和其他形式的身份之间关系的文化理解，该项目为理解澳大利亚身份的本质奠定了背景，因为我们走上了从后帝国外围管辖到潜在的更开放、慷慨和建设性政体的艰难通道。该项目为最近增加的国家研究优先类别“保护澳大利亚：了解我们的地区和世界”做出了贡献-不是在确定对澳大利亚的“威胁”的意义上，而是在全球，历史和比较背景下更重要的长期意义上理解我们自己。

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.