- Title
- Discursive Australia : Refugees, Australianness, and the Australian public sphere
- Creator
- Mummery, Jane; Rodan, Debbie
- Date
- 2007
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/33793
- Identifier
- vital:1844
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/10304310701460672
- Identifier
- ISSN:1030-4312
- Abstract
- The discussion within Australia of events of the last five years, such as 9/11, the Bali Bombing, the Tampa and the Children Overboard affair, Cronulla Riots, as well as the numbers of refugees approaching Australian shores, has typically fallen into a binarized form with public discourses coalescing around calls for either 'protectivism' or 'humanitarianism' (Mummary & Road, 2003). This discursive framework has in turn instantiated an ongoing debate concerning the issue of what it means to be Australian, and who is or should be included or excluded from this national identity, questions which have been particularly contentious in recent years. This project, however, aims to unpack and analyse just one manifestatation of this debate, that carried out in letters to the editor published between 22 January and 28 February 2002 in both The Australian (Australia's national daily broadsheet) and The West Australian (Western Australia's daily broadsheet). The period chosen for this analysis is important for several reasons.; C1
- Publisher
- Australia Taylor & Francis
- Relation
- Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies Vol. 21, no. 3 (2007), p. 347-360
- Rights
- Copyright Taylor & Francis
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1902 Film, Television and Digital Media; 2001 Communication and Media Studies; 2002 Cultural Studies; Australian; Policies; Communities; Divisiveness; Attitudes
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