"Just a bunch of white bureaucrats talking about Indigenous people": Interrogating the Anglo-centric identity of Australian community radio news and current affairs
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Backhaus, Bridget
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Literature that critiques the mainstream news media’s portrayal of First Nations people is plentiful, spanning multiple decades and regions. This article extends this body of research to community media, examining the sources utilised by the most popular syndicated news and current affairs programs broadcast on Australian community radio, through the lens of critical whiteness theory. This has international significance as the Australian community broadcasting sector is one of the oldest and well established of its kind, often considered an exemplar model.
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© The Author(s) 2025. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Creative and professional writing
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Anderson, H; Backhaus, B, "Just a bunch of white bureaucrats talking about Indigenous people": Interrogating the Anglo-centric identity of Australian community radio news and current affairs, Journalism, 2025