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dc.contributor.authorFoxwell-Norton, Kerrie-Ann
dc.contributor.authorKonkes, Claire
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-29T13:13:14Z
dc.date.available2019-05-29T13:13:14Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.issn1748-0485
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1748048518767800
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/381635
dc.description.abstractSince the 1970s, the Reef has been a site where Australian environmental policy has flourished, mirroring global environmental policy seeking to ‘balance’ human activity through ‘ecologically sustainable development’. The article examines the parallel and intersecting processes of modern environmental policy and news media practice in the context of the Reef to unveil how Australia's news media are communicating critical moments in the protection of the Reef. Through two key conservation moments – the 1981 World Heritage Listing and the 2012 threat to place the Reef on the List of World Heritage in Danger – the article examines the role of news media in different geographic contexts, highlighting the complex politics of protection from early conservation campaigns to the contemporary era of protecting the Reef in the context of global environmental crisis. We identify how ecologically sustainable development discourses can be used to communicate positions that challenge and discredit policy initiatives aimed at protecting natural environments.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSage Publications
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto24
dc.relation.ispartofjournalThe International Communication Gazette
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCommunication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchJournalism and Professional Writing
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCommunication and Media Studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode200199
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1903
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2001
dc.titleThe Great Barrier Reef: News media, policy and the politics of protection
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorFoxwell-Norton, Kerrie M.


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