Who has the floor? Media discourse, Australia’s First Nations peoples and the Northern Territory Intervention ...

• Main Author: Mesikämmen, Emma Katariina
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: La Trobe 2023
• Subjects: First Nations
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.26181/21852756; https://opal.latrobe.edu.au/articles/thesis/Who_has_the_floor_Media_discourse_Australia_s_First_Nations_peoples_and_the_Northern_Territory_Intervention/21852756

Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Social Sciences and Communications, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora. In June 2007, John Howard, then Prime Minister of Australia, declared a ‘national emergency’ in the remote Indigenous communities of the Northern Territory. The announcement followed a report from an official inquiry into child sexual abuse in Indigenous communities in the Territory. The federal government subsequently launched a number of controversial measures across prescribed communities to combat what it called a ‘crisis’. This policy approach, the Northern Territory Emergency Response, soon became known as the Intervention. Exploring mainstream news media coverage of the Intervention through a mixed methodology, this thesis integrates textual analysis of newspaper and television stories about the policy with industry interviews. Media representation of Indigenous ...