Steve Mickler Steve Mickler i(6152291 works by)
Born: Established: 1957
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Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1974
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1 y separately published work icon Andrew Bolt, the Far Right and the First Nations : Deconstructing a Demagogue Steve Mickler , Nedlands : UWA Publishing , 2019 16731840 2019 single work biography criticism

'The rights of First Nations peoples are ‘racist’, left-wing activists are ‘fascists’ and immigration has become tantamount to a ‘foreign invasion’. These are some of the core concepts found in the daily demagoguery of ‘Australia’s most read’ social and political commentator, Andrew Bolt. They are routinely packaged as being underpinned by patriotism, conservative values and egalitarian principles. Yet, as this book argues, Bolt’s commentary frequently resonates with the ideas and sentiments of the Far Right — ultra-nationalism, cultural chauvinism and a reactionary hostility to progressive thought.

History has taught us that only dreadful things come of these ideas. They stand against democracy, internationalism, all that is worthy in Western civilisation, and the security of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples alike.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 y separately published work icon Setting up the Nyoongar Tent Embassy : A Report on Perth Media Nyoongar Tent Embassy Shaphan Cox , Thor Kerr , Robert Briggs (editor), Steve Mickler (editor), Sydney : Curtin University of Technology , 2013 7097533 2013 selected work criticism

'The book reveals the ways in which Perth news media reports on these events routinely criminalised the actions of Tent Embassy participants at the expense of reporting on key issues of Aboriginal sovereignty and the members’ peaceful affirmation of native title. In its exposure of how reporting practices both legitimised and encouraged a violent state response to the Nyoongar ‘protest camp’, Setting Up the Tent Embassy offers both analysis of the Perth news media’s treatment of the Nyoongar Tent Embassy participants as well as insights into media representation of Indigenous issues more generally.' (Source: Ctrl-Z: New Media Philosophy website)

1 1 y separately published work icon A Boy's Short Life : The True Story of Warren Braedon Steve Mickler , Anna Haebich , Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2013 6152322 2013 single work biography

'Warren Braedon, named by his adoptive parents Louis St John Johnson, was taken from his mother in Alice Springs at just three months old. Told he had been abandoned, Louis’s adoptive parents, Bill and Pauline Johnson raised him in a loving family in Perth. Despite a happy childhood, Louis was increasingly targeted by school bullies and police for his Aboriginality. As he grew older, his need to meet his natural family prompted visits to Alice Springs with his parents, but they were thwarted by bureaucracy. He was planning to return to Alice Springs when, walking home on his nineteenth birthday, Louis was brutally murdered by a group of white youths whose admitted motive was ‘because he was black’. Originally published in the multi-award-winning and seminal history of the Stolen Generations, Broken Circles by Anna Haebich, the story of Louis Johnson/Warren Braedon captures the dark heart of racism in modern Australia, through the tragic story of one boy and his short life.' (Publisher's blurb)

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