The terms on which child abuse is made to matter: media representations of the Aurukun Case

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dc.contributor.authorDue, C.
dc.contributor.authorRiggs, D.
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractIn 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.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityClemence Due and Damien W. Riggs
dc.identifier.citationAustralian Feminist Studies, 2012; 27(71):3-18
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/08164649.2012.648256
dc.identifier.issn0816-4649
dc.identifier.issn1465-3303
dc.identifier.orcidDue, C. [0000-0001-6485-6076]
dc.identifier.orcidRiggs, D. [0000-0003-0961-9099]
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/72874
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.rights© 2012 Taylor & Francis
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2012.648256
dc.titleThe terms on which child abuse is made to matter: media representations of the Aurukun Case
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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