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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | The terms on which child abuse is made to matter: media representations of the Aurukun Case |
Author: | Due, C. Riggs, D. |
Citation: | Australian Feminist Studies, 2012; 27(71):3-18 |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Issue Date: | 2012 |
ISSN: | 0816-4649 1465-3303 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Clemence Due and Damien W. Riggs |
Abstract: | In 2007 the Australian mainstream news media extensively covered a child rape case in the Indigenous community of Aurukun. In this coverage, the media positioned themselves as having a moral requirement to report the ‘Aurukun rape case’ in order to bring issues of Indigenous child sexual abuse to the attention of the public. This paper examines the representations of this case made available by mainstream news media, and specifically examines both the depiction of Indigenous communities as dysfunctional and the claim made by the media that Indigenous child sexual abuse is ‘our business’. The paper concludes that the coverage of this case represents a form of ‘war porn’ that became more about white control over Indigenous lives and less an investigation into child sexual abuse. |
Rights: | © 2012 Taylor & Francis |
DOI: | 10.1080/08164649.2012.648256 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2012.648256 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 5 Psychology publications |
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