From the West Australian’s Inside Cover with Luke Morfesse:

The white stuff

White supremacist Jack van Tongeren is writing to journalists and asking that they stop calling him a white supremacist.

In a letter to The West’s veteran court reporter Roy Gibson from inside Hakea prison, the white supremacist described himself as a political prisoner.

Proving he can do a nice line in pathos, the white supremacist wrote:

“As the winter sun shines down on this cruel insult to civilisation, this pit of evil, I trust that all is well with you.”

The white supremacist said he was making a request for honesty in reporting. “I am not a ‘white supremacist’ … I am an Anzac in the true Aussie sense of the word,” he wrote.

So we’ll call him former white supremacist in future.