ORCID Profile
0000-0003-1032-2540
Current Organisations
Murdoch University
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University of Western Australia
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McCusker Centre for Citizenship, UWA
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-11-2023
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-12-2022
DOI: 10.1177/09579265211048681
Abstract: Metaphors are powerful mechanisms by which to rally exclusionary nationalist sentiment without necessarily appearing racist. However, sometimes those metaphors are challenged, inverting exclusionary functions. In this paper, we track how metaphors in the Australian press over the last 165 years which have generally constructed migration as a threat to the integrity of the nation, are repurposed to counter the claims embedded within them. For ex le, while invasion, sw ing and flooding are generally recruited to negative ends, the same tropes are used to argue that fears of invasion are unjustified, that numbers of migrants are too small to sw the nation and that the so-called floods of foreigners are overstated. However, this does not necessarily result in a decrease in metaphor use, nor challenge the fundamental implications of the metaphors. We explore how the repurposing occurs, and why it may not be an effective tool for anti-racist action.
Publisher: The University of Western Australia
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.26182/3MD9-PS14
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-02-2021
Abstract: The article examines the use of the queue-jumping metaphor within the Australian press at three key points of asylum seeker arrivals. As a diachronic study, it investigates the development of the metaphor and its utilisation. The article finds that while the metaphor developed at the intersection of political and news discourse, its usage was far from straightforward, often acting as a focus for arguments opposing government policies and rhetoric. Yet the success of the metaphor in shaping the narrative around asylum seekers can be understood through its structuring of a deserving/undeserving dichotomy, aligned with quintessential Australian values, which led to both pro- and anti-government positions being articulated through the context of queue-jumping.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-02-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-06-2021
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2021
DOI: 10.1111/AJPH.12766
Abstract: History is a key site for the negotiation of national identity, with the ability to define the past shaping the national narrative on who “we” were, who “we” are, and, crucially, who “we” should be. As such, the teaching of history is a site of intense political debate. This paper examines the history module of the Australian Curriculum to understand the extent to which the history curriculum moves beyond Eurocentric, colonial imaginings of Australia's history towards a more inclusive, multi‐cultural, globally‐oriented, cosmopolitan vision of society. Both the curriculum and teaching resources were examined to ascertain the identities and orientations these materials could provide. The research finds that — despite improvements in presenting a ersity of representations, in particular a positive focus on the rights and contributions of Indigenous peoples in Australia and some orientation to erse migrant histories, the environment, and Asia — the main thrust of the curriculum is a focus on the nation‐state at the expense of global engagement. The funnel structure which deals with broader world history in earlier years, relegates the rest of the world to a temporal and spatial distance, leaving a somewhat myopic narrative that perpetuates traditional, Anglo‐centric narratives, maintaining the perspectives of “Others” as peripheral.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2021
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