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In Australia, as in other multicultural countries, the global Islamophobic discourse linking Muslims to terrorists to refugees results in the belief of an “enemy within”, which fractures the public sphere. Muslim minorities learn to distrust mainstream media as the global discourse manifests in localised right-wing discussion. This fracturing was further compounded in 2020 with increased media concentration and polarisation. In response, 12 young Australian Muslim women opened themselves up to four journalists working for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). They engaged in critical journalism research called Frame Reflection Interviews (FRIs). The process gave journalists important knowledge around the power dynamics of Islamophobia and empowered participants to help shape new media discourses tackling Islamophobia. This paper proposes that the FRIs are one method to rebuild trust in journalism while redistributing risk towards the journalists. These steps are necessary t...

En.  Conflict zones around the world are accompanied by spaces designed to service the internationals whose careers intersect with conflict – profes- sionals such as foreign correspondents. These increasingly entrenched and segregated internationalised zones – alternatively described as aidlands (Mosse 2011a) or peacelands (Autesserre 2014) have been the subject of recent critique in postcolonial, development and international relations literature for fostering limited and flawed types of knowledges of the countries and conflicts in which they exist. This paper argues the urgent need to take account of these critiques given that foreign correspondents use of these same aid/peace lands while on reporting assignments constitutes ‘embedding’ in the humanitarian and international development field. A series of potential risks arising from this embedding are detailed with risks defined here as non-physical challenges to quality, ethical, interna- tional reportage. The research is practic...

En.  Conflict zones around the world are accompanied by spaces designed to service the internationals whose careers intersect with conflict – profes- sionals such as foreign correspondents. These increasingly entrenched and segregated internationalised zones – alternatively described as aidlands (Mosse 2011a) or peacelands (Autesserre 2014) have been the subject of recent critique in postcolonial, development and international relations literature for fostering limited and flawed types of knowledges of the countries and conflicts in which they exist. This paper argues the urgent need to take account of these critiques given that foreign correspondents use of these same aid/peace lands while on reporting assignments constitutes ‘embedding’ in the humanitarian and international development field. A series of potential risks arising from this embedding are detailed with risks defined here as non-physical challenges to quality, ethical, interna- tional reportage. The research is practic...

Centre for Media Transition. Chrisanthi teaches at UTS in journalism, media studies and social and political sciences and guest lectures in the Department of Government and International Relations at Sydney University. Chrisanthi spent a decade as a reporter and deputy editor in Dubbo, Sydney and London and ran her own entrepreneurial journalism project reporting from 10 African countries. 7 Regional Australians are switching from desktop computers to smartphones to access news at a faster rate than their metropolitan counterparts. Since 2016, the number of regional news consumers accessing news on the phone has grown from 26 per cent to 44 per cent. At the same time, usage of the personal computer has dropped from 55 per cent to 36 per cent. See chapter 5. 8 News consumers in regional areas are more concerned than their metropolitan counterparts about what is real or fake on the internet, are more likely to avoid news, and are more likely to feel worn out by the amount of news. About two-thirds of regional news consumers are worried about mis-or dis-information. The same proportion of news consumers in regional areas try to avoid news. Almost one-third of regional news consumers are worn out by the volume of news. See chapter 5.

A considerable body of research seeks to map and measure the impact of the creative industries. This is constrained in cities like Adelaide by a narrow conceptualisation of creativity that fails to reveal how diffuse creativity is within the economy and society. A more holistic understanding of the relationship between creativity and the economy is required to inform policy development and intervention.

This series explores worker experience and working lives in the global sector of the cultural and creative industries. There are rising numbers of aspirants to creative work and rising numbers of graduates and trainees, yet the available employment is increasingly precarious and complex. To address this complexity, the Creative Working Lives series presents original research from across multiple disciplines, including media and cultural studies, gender studies, social psychology and sociology, politics, labour studies, cultural policy studies, anthropology, art and design, and interdisciplinary research. The series provides insights on urgent global and national issues around contemporary cultural and creative working lives, addressing academics, practitioners, students, policy-makers and general readers with an interest in cultural and creative worker experience in a changing world.

This chapter examines the theoretical and policy discourse that has informed South Australia's innovation policy since the 1980s. The recommendations and policy strategies to support innovation have changed little during this time, and yet South Australia's productivity improvement through innovation still lags behind other states and economic regions of similar size. This chapter considers where impediments may lie in South Australia's innovation system and argues that there is a need viii Integrating Innovation to move beyond the current policy path dependency that relies upon behaviours and attitudes that have traditionally served to maintain stability and control. The state needs to invest in gaining a different and more holistic understanding of the contribution and value contributed by diverse knowledge taxonomies, from both the HASS and STEM disciplines, and the multiple monetary and non-monetary transactions that inspire and support innovation across the economy.

The report examines the attitudes, expectations and strategies of agencies working in aged care in South Australia in 2016. It sets out to document the business conditions and perceived opportunities affecting the sector at a time of considerable transition, with a view to establishing a baseline of information that permits the monitoring of change over time, and helps inform both business growth and the formation of government policy. The data presented in this report represents a unique set of insights into South Australia’s aged care sector at a time when it prepares for, and experiences, change. The data presented here was collected from February to May 2016 via an on-line survey sent to the CEOs of identifiable providers of aged care services in the state. This data collection will be repeated over the coming years to provide a snapshot of both change and emerging issues and accompanies research into the perspectives of aged care consumers in South Australia in 2016.

The phrase ‘designer maker’ is being employed increasingly in the contemporary craft and design marketplace, especially among those seeking to make a full-time living from their practice. It marks those makers who may undertake original design and prototyping themselves, but who, in order to scale up their production in ways not always possible for a solo hand maker, outsource some or all subsequent aspects of production to other makers or machine-assisted manufacturing processes. But despite widespread use of this phrase, some makers remain keen to manage the scale of their business. As a result, many of those craftspeople and designer makers we spoke to who were in a position to scale-up their production while stepping back from the making themselves were reluctant to go down this path. Elsewhere we have explored these issues in terms of balancing making income with quality of life, as well as in terms of the desire to be a maker, to be doing the creative work oneself, and thus no...

This chapter explores the contemporary marketplace for Australian craft and designer maker products as experienced by the makers and mediators in our study. What became clear was the ongoing importance of place—including localness and proximity—to the Australian market. Here emerges a paradox in the current relationship between craft and digital technology. Whereas the whole moment of growth in handmaking is in so many ways a direct result of the internet, with its greater access to materials, skills knowledge and (potentially) markets, it is the value of a face-to-face, hand-to-hand economy, we argue, that is clearly also re-asserting itself here.

This chapter reports upon how makers experience and negotiate the increasing demands of social media, in particular the highly visual and stylised world of Instagram. While a recurrent theme through the research was how ‘easy’ it is to establish an online retail presence, the work involved in maintaining and building their brand was identified consistently as the real challenge. It is in this context that the demands of social media as a new normal baseline eating up time makers would rather spend making appear as part of the new administrative burden facing the self-employed and creative microenterprises. The chapter finishes on a final note acknowledging, but also problematising, the ongoing role of locality-based support organisations in the digital age.

This chapter will provide a necessarily brief historical overview of the models of training available to support skills development for the applied arts in Australia, from colonial cottage industries to the educational experiences of the contemporary craftspeople and designer makers who participated in this study. In doing so, it will highlight significant contemporary Australian federal and state government political and economic policy agendas that have directly and indirectly influenced changes to the nature, form and institutional investment in education supporting the development of contemporary Australian makers. The second half of this chapter reports on the research participants’ educational experiences and sense of how well prepared they were upon graduating to establish and sustain a viable creative enterprise.

This chapter introduces the people and their stories that inform this book, including the reasons behind their choice to pursue craft or design, despite the frequently precarious incomes to be made. One of the strongest findings to emerge in this study is the centrality of early exposures to making to later comfort with and motivation to give craft and design ‘a go’. How the makers connect their current identities to formative earlier familial and educational experiences is explored. These findings are then situated analytically within critical scholarship on the values of crafts-based practice today as they sit alongside the rise of neoliberal individualised work practices, including the normalisation of self-employment and microenterprise, with all the associated personal financial risk-taking this entails.

Governments and cities around Australia and indeed the world have recognised the need to shift toward more inclusive decision making processes, particularly when dealing with issues of the public realm. Despite some significant efforts in this space, including in the creation of urban living laboratories, there is a continued scepticism of consultative processes, and little accountability as to whether the stated goal was achieved. The International Association for Public Participation's (IAP2) public participation spectrum (Inform, consult, involve, collaborate, and empower) is currently the primary way of describing the level of involvement (or not) of citizens in decision making processes. Many elements of this spectrum can be traced back to Arnstein's 1967 Ladder of Public Participation, however, there is one significant difference. The IAP2 approach is largely based on rationalism (planning and strategy), while Arnstein's Ladder supports a critically pragmatic approach based on reflection and assessment of actual outcomes. This paper uses Forester's theory of critical pragmatism to contrast the IAP2 spectrum with Arnstein's Ladder as ways of evaluating public consultation. With support from Sennett's (2012) notions of dialogic and dialectic cooperation, the paper highlights the mismatch between assessing planned and actual outcomes, and suggests how the adoption of Arnstein's Ladder alongside the IAP2 spectrum might help governments and cities to engage more meaningfully with their citizens.

If the purpose of environmental accounting research is to develop, suggest and analyse ways out of the environmental crisis, then it is fundamental that the ethical positions informing our research are developed and explored fully before we make choices about the path and direction of our own work. This paper reviews two alternative approaches to environmental ethics, namely, radical ecology (of which deep ecology, social ecology and eco-feminism are regarded as subdivisions) and the emerging area of post-modern environmentalism. The aim is to encourage environmental accounting researchers to consider and explicitly state the ethical position adopted within their work. Table 1-Reference guide to environmental ethics General approach Summary of ethical position Mainstream Accounting Generally assumes the environment to be an 'externality' and not a direct responsibility of the organization. Ethical responsibilities are extended to a limited group, which includes shareholders as primary stakeholders. This perspective allows for an ethical position founded on the maximization of personal utility, often in the form of profits and often at the expense of the long term viability of the natural environment. If the environment is considered, it is often done so from the perspective of the organization's interests. Anthropocentric; centred around humanity and decisions are made in the interests of humans over the interests of other living organisms. If environmentally sustainable behaviour is encouraged, it is done so on the basis of human interest. Deep Ecology Ethics based on non-anthropocentric belief systems. Cultural practices are placed in the context of a greater living cosmos and decisions are assessed in light of the effect on the broader living organism of which the self is a part. Often encourages a spiritual dimension within the ethical framework and draws on the teachings of indigenous and Eastern philosophy to help inform relationships with nature. Social Ecology Ethics based on non-hierarchical relationships among people and nature. Cultural practices are challenged to become egalitarian and promote equity and move away from oppressive relationships of domination. Recognises social and environmental relations are affected by power Structures and encourages these relationships to allow for self-determinism and encourage the maximization of nature, community and self potential. Eco-feminism Encourages an ethical perspective that challenges patriarchal structures that have often equated women with nature. Challenges social and environmental relations to become more inclusive of the 'Other', which includes women, nature, the poor and people from non-European backgrounds. Offers a sophisticated analysis of gender and the role of these relations in the oppression of nature, suggesting an inclusive environmental ethic informed by 'Other' perspectives that resist the domination of patriarchal social relationships with nature. Post-modern Environmentalism An emerging area that resists absolutes as a way out of the environmental crisis. Encourages a dialogue with cultural, gender and class 'difference', and offers an analysis of language, text and discourse in the construction of the environmental crisis.