Framing sexual and gender-based violence
Australia Day, nationalism and conservative prime ministerial policy discourse
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6235325 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicholas Bromfield (0000-0003-3075-1481, UNSW Sydney, corresponding author), Nicole Wegner (0000-0002-9534-4820, University of Auckland), A Page (0000-0001-5674-4517, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-19 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1036-1146 • E-ISSN: 1363-030X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10361146.2024.2327984 |
| OpenAlex | W4392813668 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 42 |
Grace Tame's 2021 Australian of the Year (AOTY) award directed public attention towards sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), as did Australia Day award recipients Donna Carson in 2004 and Rosie Battie in 2015. We use mixed-method textual analysis of a corpus of prime minister's Australia Day speeches between 1990 and 2021 to show how conservative Liberal Party prime ministers have narrated a discourse of idealised national identity to manage activist demands regarding SGBV policy. We quantitatively find that prime ministers promote masculine and heteronormative representations of Australian identity and then develop a qualitative typology of conservative SGBV frames employed by prime ministers that gloss over SGBV as a pressing and chronic policy issue and position idealised Australian femininity to condone and obscure SGBV. This paper builds upon scholarship on public policy and gendered nationalism to explain this pattern of SGBV problem definition and framing by conservative prime ministers
Framing (construction · Geography · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Prime minister · Sexual violence · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Public Administration
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Political Identities/Nationalism as Heterosexism
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Agenda Setting and Problem Definition
(In)Visibility and recognition
Overview
Foreign Policy as Social Construction
Playing the Gender Card
Gender and Political Leadership in a Time of Covid
Policy Success, Policy Failure and Grey Areas In-Between
How is Australianness represented by prime ministers
Neoliberalism and gender equality policy in Australia
What Covid-19 revealed about gender equality policy framing
Welcome home
Rights to protection and the state
Australian Federalism and Domestic Violence Policy-Making
The Study of Discourse in International Relations
Degendering the Problem and Gendering the Blame
Masculinity and nationalism
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |