This book offers rich insights into the news media’s role in the development of policy in Australia, and explores the complex and interactive relationship between news media and Australian Indigenous affairs.
 
Kerry McCallum and Lisa Waller critically examine how Indigenous health, bilingual education, and controversial legislation are portrayed through public media, and they look closely at how Indigenous people are both being excluded from policy and media discussion, as well as using the media to their advantage.

Kerry McCallum is associate professor and senior research fellow at the News and Research Centre at the University of Canberra. Lisa Waller is associate professor of communication at Deakin University.
 

— Dr. Christina Spurgeon, School of Communication, Queensland University of Technology