Frontline: Interrogating power and disrupting the discourse about Onslow and the gas hubs

When government statements talk about a secret deal with a multinational consortium that will see more than A$250 million spent on a town with a population of around 1000 people, questions need to be asked. Basic maths equates the spend to around A$250,000 a person and yet many people in the town ar...

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Autores principales:	Kayt Davies, Karma Barndon
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Publicado:	Asia Pacific Network 2016
Materias:	Australia collaborations community media exegesis investigative journalism. journalism as research Communication. Mass media P87-96 Journalism. The periodical press, etc. PN4699-5650
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:3bd3d4218b6040ce930d58f26eaa37c32021-12-02T10:24:52ZFrontline: Interrogating power and disrupting the discourse about Onslow and the gas hubs10.24135/pjr.v22i1.181023-94992324-2035https://doaj.org/article/3bd3d4218b6040ce930d58f26eaa37c32016-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/18https://doaj.org/toc/1023-9499https://doaj.org/toc/2324-2035When government statements talk about a secret deal with a multinational consortium that will see more than A$250 million spent on a town with a population of around 1000 people, questions need to be asked. Basic maths equates the spend to around A$250,000 a person and yet many people in the town are unhappy about the whole deal. Tracking Onslow was a collaboration between a university and a local government that used journalism as a methodology to document and interrogate the interaction between Chevron, the state and local governments and the Onslow community over a three-year period. This article focuses on the production of the lead feature of the final edition. It presents the published article and a reflexive exegesis that uses Foucault’s ideas about power and knowledge to frame and evaluate the journalistic endeavour.Kayt DaviesKarma BarndonAsia Pacific NetworkarticleAustraliacollaborationscommunity mediaexegesisinvestigative journalism. journalism asresearchCommunication. Mass mediaP87-96Journalism. The periodical press, etc.PN4699-5650ENPacific Journalism Review, Vol 22, Iss 1 (2016)
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description	When government statements talk about a secret deal with a multinational consortium that will see more than A$250 million spent on a town with a population of around 1000 people, questions need to be asked. Basic maths equates the spend to around A$250,000 a person and yet many people in the town are unhappy about the whole deal. Tracking Onslow was a collaboration between a university and a local government that used journalism as a methodology to document and interrogate the interaction between Chevron, the state and local governments and the Onslow community over a three-year period. This article focuses on the production of the lead feature of the final edition. It presents the published article and a reflexive exegesis that uses Foucault’s ideas about power and knowledge to frame and evaluate the journalistic endeavour.
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title	Frontline: Interrogating power and disrupting the discourse about Onslow and the gas hubs
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Frontline: Interrogating power and disrupting the discourse about Onslow and the gas hubs

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