David Nolan - Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging

Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging

AnthemStudies in Australian Politics, Economics and Society

This series showcases the most significant contributions to scholarship on a wide range of social science issues, dealing with the changing politics, economics and society of Australia, while not losing sight of the interplay of other regional and global forces and their influence and impact on this region. Anthem Studies in Australian Politics, Economics and Society is intended as an interdisciplinary series, at the interface of politics, law, sociology, media, policy, political economy, economics, business, criminology and anthropology. It is seeking to publish high quality research which considers issues of power, justice and democracy; and provides a critical contribution to knowledge about Australian politics, economics and society. The series especially welcomes books from emerging scholars which contribute new perspectives on social science.

Series Editor-in-Chief

Sally Young University of Melbourne, Australia

Series Editors

Timothy Marjoribanks Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Joo-Cheong Tham Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia

Editorial Board

Iain Campbell Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia

Sara Charlesworth Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia

Kevin Foster Monash University, Australia

Anika Gauja The University of Sydney, Australia

John Germov The University of Newcastle, Australia

Michael Gilding Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Simon Jackman Stanford University, USA

Carol Johnson The University of Adelaide, Australia

Deb King Flinders University, Australia

Jude McCulloch Monash University, Australia

Jenny Morgan University of Melbourne, Australia

Vanessa Ratten La Trobe University, Australia

Ben Spies-Butcher Macquarie University, Australia

Ariadne Vromen The University of Sydney, Australia

John Wanna Australian National University, Australia

George Williams The University of New South Wales, Australia

Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging

Edited by David Nolan, Karen Farquharson and Timothy Marjoribanks

CONTENTS

David Nolan, Karen Farquharson and Timothy Marjoribanks

Val Colic-Peisker

Tanja Dreher

Scott Hanson-Easey

Karen Farquharson and David Nolan

Denis Muller, Karen Farquharson and David Nolan

Paola Bilbrough

Jacqui Ewart and Mark Pearson

Raelene Wilding and Sandra Gifford

Timothy Marjoribanks, Denis Muller and Michael Gawenda

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This book brings together contributions from leading scholars in their disciplines, working on critical issues advancing our understanding of belonging. As an editorial team, we thank them for their willingness to contribute their important work to this volume and for their earlier participation in a workshop that provided the basis for this book. As a note, individual authors have provided their own acknowledgements where appropriate in their respective chapters.

We thank the editorial and production team at Anthem Press for their work through all stages of the editing and production process. It has been a pleasure to work with them, and we thank them for their professionalism and encouragement in bringing this book to publication. We thank Vassilissa Carangio for her work on the final manuscript. We also very much thank the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne for a publication grant that contributed to the final publication of this book. We are also grateful to Matthew McCarthy, Founding Director of Clear Design, for his permission to use the cover image, which features posters produced for the Identity: Yours, Mine, Ours exhibition at the Immigration Museum, Melbourne. The project would not have been possible without the support of these individuals and organizations.

This book had its origins in a research project on the communication needs of Sudanese Australians, with a research team of chief investigators that comprised Michael Gawenda, David Nolan, Karen Farquharson, Denis Muller and Timothy Marjoribanks. A number of the chapters in this book present findings from the project. The members of the research team wish to express their heartfelt thanks to all those who contributed to this project, in particular Violeta Politoff, who organized much of the early work; Reece Lamshed, who managed the training programme; and Alice Burgin and Aisling Bailey, who, along with Violetta Politoff, provided excellent research assistance.

Particular thanks also to all the members of the Sudanese and South-Sudanese Australian communities who participated in or in any way contributed to the project. Without their willingness to participate in the project (details of which are provided in chapters in this book), the research project and book would not have been possible. Louise Wilson and Lucy Chancellor-Weale at the Centre for Advancing Journalism (CAJ) at the University of Melbourne provided invaluable and greatly appreciated administrative support throughout the project, and we also thank Margaret Simons for ensuring the continued support of the CAJ.

The contributions of the projects industry partners the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and Adult Multicultural Education Services (AMES) are also richly deserving of acknowledgement and thanks. AMES provided accommodation for the training and for workshops at which the participants were able to gain access to computers for the purpose of building and maintaining the website that became the main work of the group. We are particularly grateful to Cath Scarfe and Adam Baxter for their support and advice, and to Maureen OKeeffe and Maria Tsopanis for their work in contributing to and facilitating the training sessions.

The ABC, in particular Carolyn MacDonald and Frances Green, provided access to their journalists and persuaded them to act as mentors, gave generously of their own time as teachers and harnessed resources across the organization to provide the participants with training in technical as well as editorial fields.

Through the project, numerous current and former journalists, as well as other colleagues, made significant contributions to the training programme through a range of activities including delivering training and being involved in mentoring. We thank them for their generosity and for their important contribution to the project. We also thank members of the broader community who attended project roundtables for their interest in, and engagement with, the project.