Telling the Refugee Story: The `Ordinary Australian', the State of Australia |
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Authors: | Duncanson Ian |
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Affiliation: | (1) Institute of Postcolonial Studies, 70-80 Curzon Street, North Melbourne, Victoria, 3051, Australia |
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Abstract: | By international standards, fewuninvited asylum-seekers arrive in Australia.However, in 2001, a conservative federalgovernment trailing in the opinion pollsreversed its fortunes and won the November 2001election largely, it seems because of its``tough' refugee policy, which the Oppositioncould only feebly endorse, deeming oppositionelectorally suicidal. Using some insights fromLacan and writers in the Lacanian tradition,this paper examines how the refugee story waswritten, and why it was that the intentions ofits authors so successfully shaped itsreception by the majority of the electorate. |
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Keywords: | hysteria lack objet petit a nation refugees White Australia Policy |
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