Australian news media and Indigenous policymaking 1988-2008

我们的研究将通过提供有关新闻实践与土著政策制定过程之间关系的全面、当代数据来增强新闻和政策制定实践。我们将考察媒体文本、政策文件、公开声明以及记者和政策制定者对当地的了解。通过公共媒体讨论土著问题的方式产生了具体的政策结果，影响到土著澳大利亚人的生活、土著澳大利亚人和非土著澳大利亚人之间的关系，并最终影响到澳大利亚这个国家。因此，这项研究属于保持良好健康的国家研究优先领域，旨在加强澳大利亚的社会和经济结构。

Our research will enhance both journalistic and policymaking practice by providing comprehensive, contemporary data about the relationships between journalism practices and Indigenous policymaking processes. We will examine media texts, policy documents, public statements and journalists' and policymakers' local knowledge. The ways in which Indigenous issues are discussed through the public media have concrete policy outcomes that impact on the lives of Indigenous Australians, on the relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians and ultimately on Australia as a nation. As such, the research falls within theNational Research Priority area of maintaining good health, by aiming to strengthen Australia's social and economic fabric.