Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Singular Influence : Mapping the Ascent of Daisy M. Bates in Popular Understanding and Indigenous Policy
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'Daisy M. Bates's influence on Indigenous affairs has often been attributed to her once romantic legend as 'the saviour of the Aborigines', obscuring the impact of the powerful news media position that she commanded for decades. The ideas advanced by the news media through its reports both by and about Bates exerted a strong influence on public understanding and official policies that were devastating for Indigenous Australians and have had lasting impacts. This paper draws on Bourdieu's tradition of field-based research to propose that Bates's 'singular influence' was formed through the accumulation of 'symbolic capital' within and across the fields of journalism, government, Indigenous societies, and anthropology, and that it operated to reinforce and legitimate the media's representations of Indigenous people and issues as well as government policies' (Author's abstract).

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