From Mobsters to Magnates

Shifting Blame for Modern Slavery in Australian Parliamentary Inquiries

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ID6313802
AutoresErin O’brien (0000-0003-4593-8951, Queensland University of Technology, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume75
Fascículo2
Páginas340-361
Data de publicação2022-03-29
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoParliamentary Affairs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0031-2290 • E-ISSN: 1460-2482
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/pa/gsaa070
OpenAlexW3123135203
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas21

Policy problems are typically framed through a representation of those who have been harmed, and those who are to blame, with parliamentary inquiries playing a key role in setting the agenda by mediating between competing problematisations. In order to reveal the politics behind policy-making through inquiries, it is necessary to examine both the aspects of the issue that are problematised and those aspects that remain unproblematised. Adopting modern slavery policy in Australia as a case study, this article utilises Bacchi’s ‘what is the problem represented to be?’ framework for analysing discourse in parliamentary inquiries on modern slavery between 2003 and 2018. I argue that across three clear phases of policy-making, problematisation has shifted and evolved, though blame has consistently been deflected away from the role of the state in contributing to the conditions that cause modern slavery

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