Gideon Haigh recently wrote the essay Facepaint Patriots. The essay maps nationalism from its Enlightenment origins, through its fascist excesses and its prejudicial overtones, and discusses how Australia arrived at its own sense of nationhood. This lecture on ABC Radio National's Book Show is based on that essay.

Find more information and listen to it online at http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2007/2032650.htm.