How television moved a nation: media, change and Indigenous rights
This article examines the role of television in Australia’s 1967 referendum, which is widely believed to have given rights to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It presents an analysis of archival television footage to identify five stories that moved the nation: Australia’s shame, civil...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/0163443718754650 2024-09-15T18:06:43+00:00 How television moved a nation: media, change and Indigenous rights Waller, Lisa McCallum, Kerry 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443718754650 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0163443718754650 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/0163443718754650 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Media, Culture & Society volume 40, issue 7, page 992-1007 ISSN 0163-4437 1460-3675 journal-article 2018 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443718754650 2024-07-08T04:30:21Z This article examines the role of television in Australia’s 1967 referendum, which is widely believed to have given rights to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It presents an analysis of archival television footage to identify five stories that moved the nation: Australia’s shame, civil rights and global connections, admirable activists, ‘a fair go’ and consensus. It argues that television shaped the wider culture and opened a channel of communication that allowed Indigenous activists and everyday people to speak directly to non-Indigenous people and other First Nations people throughout the land for the first time. The referendum narrative that television did so much to craft and promote marks the shift from an older form of settler nationalism that simply excluded Indigenous people, to an ongoing project that seeks to recognise, respect and ‘reaccredit’ the nation-state through incorporation of Indigenous narratives. We conclude that whereas television is understood to have ‘united’ the nation in 1967, 50 years later seismic shifts in media and society have made the quest for further constitutional reform on Indigenous rights and recognition more sophisticated, diffuse, complex and challenging. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations SAGE Publications Media, Culture & Society 40 7 992 1007 |
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This article examines the role of television in Australia’s 1967 referendum, which is widely believed to have given rights to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It presents an analysis of archival television footage to identify five stories that moved the nation: Australia’s shame, civil rights and global connections, admirable activists, ‘a fair go’ and consensus. It argues that television shaped the wider culture and opened a channel of communication that allowed Indigenous activists and everyday people to speak directly to non-Indigenous people and other First Nations people throughout the land for the first time. The referendum narrative that television did so much to craft and promote marks the shift from an older form of settler nationalism that simply excluded Indigenous people, to an ongoing project that seeks to recognise, respect and ‘reaccredit’ the nation-state through incorporation of Indigenous narratives. We conclude that whereas television is understood to have ‘united’ the nation in 1967, 50 years later seismic shifts in media and society have made the quest for further constitutional reform on Indigenous rights and recognition more sophisticated, diffuse, complex and challenging. |
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