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The myth of privilege : Aboriginal status, media visions, public ideas / Steve Mickler

Record no:

64398

Call no:

T/572.9941 MIC

Author:

Mickler, Steve

Publisher:

Fremantle, W.A.: Fremantle Arts Centre Press

Year:

1998

Description:

346 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Australian Aborigines - Western Australia - Social conditions;
Western Australia - Race relations - 20th century;
Australian Aborigines - Western Australia - Crime;
Racism;
Mass media and minorities - Australia;

Mass media and race relations - Australia;

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Isbn:

186368249X

Type:

Book

Abstract:

Examines the role of the media, particularly news reporting and talk back radio, in the creation of the idea and the myth of Aboriginal privilege. As a result, a march of 30,000 people on Parliament achieved the harshest penalties for juvenile crime in

the country.

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