The Dynamics of News and Indigenous Policy in Australia / Kerry McCallum and Lisa Waller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCallum, Kerry, author.

Waller, Lisa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians and mass media.

Cultural policy.

Australia--Cultural policy.

Australia.

Physical Description:

x, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Intellect, 2017.

Summary:

Despite intense concern among academics and advocates, there remains an absence of scholarship on the way media reporting exacerbates, rather than resolves, policy problems. To fill part of this gap, this book offers rich insights into the news media's role in the development of policy in Australia, and explores the complex and interactive relationship between news media and Australian Indigenous affairs. Kerry McCallum and Lisa Waller critically examine how Indigenous health, bilingual education and controversial legislation were portrayed through public media, and they look closely at how Indigenous people were both being excluded from policy and medic discussion, as well as using the media to their advantage. To that end, the book poses important questions about the power of news media to shape the national conversation, and the complex and dynamic relationships between news media and politics. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Setting the Scene 1

Chapter 1 Introduction: Media dynamics and policy intractability 3

Chapter 2 Policy histories and discursive environments 21

Part II Media Coverage of Indigenous Affairs 35

Chapter 3 Race, indigeneity and the media: Theoretical trajectories in Australian studies of Indigenous media representation 37

Chapter 4 News from another country: Remote Indigenous reporting for mainstream audiences 57

Chapter 5 The Australian and Indigenous affairs 81

Part III Indigenous Health Policy 105

Chapter 6 Key moments in Indigenous health policy, 1988-2008 105

Chapter 7 Framing Indigenous health in the Australian news media 119

Chapter 8 Policymakers' media-related practices and 'new paternalism' in Indigenous health 165

Part IV Bilingual Education 191

Chapter 9 Bilingual education: A case study 195

Chapter 10 Saving bilingual education: Media-related practices of Indigenous policy advocates 203

Chapter 11 A game of mirrors: News, policy and bilingual education 227

Chapter 12 Conclusion: Change and continuity in media and Indigenous affairs 259.

ISBN:

9781783208128

1783208120

OCLC:

979568226