Spaces of exclusion: The visual construction of Australian borders and the asylum seeker subject in television news reports of the 2013 Australian Federal Election | Zendy

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Spaces of exclusion: The visual construction of Australian borders and the asylum seeker subject in television news reports of the 2013 Australian Federal Election

Author(s) -

Leicha Stewart

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

borderlands journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2652-6743

DOI - 10.21307/borderlands-2019-012

Subject(s) - federal election , punitive damages , politics , political science , subject (documents) , public administration , media studies , law , sociology , computer science , library science

Policy regarding people arriving by boat in order to seek asylum was a key focus of political discourse during the 2013 Australian Federal Election campaign. Evening television news reports on the unfolding election revealed a bipartisan push for increasingly punitive approaches to the treatment of people seeking asylum. As such borders and the processes and practices involved in discursively constructing them, as well as the linguistic and visual strategies deployed around maintaining and protecting them were dominating themes of political discourse throughout the campaign and the ensuing election coverage.

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