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‘Our own Hurricane Katrina’: Aboriginal disadvantage and Australian national identity

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Faulkner, Joanne L.
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Since Prime Minister Howard's declaration in 2007 that child sex abuse in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities was Australia's ‘own Hurricane Katrina’, the trope of natural disaster has been a regular feature of print and television media coverage of Indigenous affairs in Australia. The effect of this rhetorical strategy is to separate what happens to Aboriginal people from the fabric of ‘mainstream’ Australian cultural and political life; to render it alien and unconnected to the relative privilege enjoyed by other Australians. This strategy also produces peculiar temporal effects by erecting a cordon sanitaire around Australian history and the national identity that it supports. Howard's comparison of Aboriginal disadvantage with Katrina, if read alongside his politicization of the teaching of Australian history, demonstrates an unwillingness to incorporate systemic injustice toward Indigenous people within the composition of that history. This article interrogates the relationships between the man...
Starting Page	117
Ending Page	135
Page Count	19
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.1080/14608944.2015.1019205
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://research-management.mq.edu.au/ws/portalfiles/portal/106833881/Faulkner_Katrina.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2015.1019205
Volume Number	17
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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