Framing sexual and gender-based violence: Australia Day, nationalism and conservative prime ministerial policy discourse
Bromfield, Nicholas, Wegner, Nicole, and Page, Alexander (2024) Framing sexual and gender-based violence: Australia Day, nationalism and conservative prime ministerial policy discourse. Australian Journal of Political Science, 59 (1). pp. 1-19.
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Abstract
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.
| Item ID: | 87453 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1363-030X |
| Keywords: | Australia Day, Gender, Nationalism, Prime minister, Public policy |
| Copyright Information: | © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Dec 2025 23:54 |
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