Representing Children in Australian Political Controversies

该项目旨在扩大澳大利亚对儿童如何参与政治的知识和理解，从而影响公众对关键社会、文化、卫生和国家安全政策的讨论。该项目计划调查儿童在澳大利亚政治争议中的代表性：具体而言，2008年北领地紧急应对措施和目前关于移民拘留中儿童的辩论。通过这个项目，该项目旨在展示政治是如何被关于儿童的代表性主张所改变的。通过研究这些主张及其对政治决策的影响，本项目旨在发展一个明确的童年政治帐户，并探讨其对澳大利亚决策的影响。

This project intends to expand Australian knowledge and understanding about how children appear in politics, thus shaping public discussions about key social, cultural, health and national security policies. The project plans to investigate how children are represented in Australian political controversies: specifically, the 2008 Northern Territory Emergency Response and the ongoing debates about children in immigration detention. Through this, the project intends to demonstrate how politics is transformed by representative claims about children. By examining these claims and their impact on political decisions, this project seeks to develop an explicitly political account of childhood and explore its implications for Australian policy-making.