Singular influence : mapping the ascent of Daisy M. Bates in popular understanding and Indigenous policy Waller, Lisa 2010, Singular influence : mapping the ascent of Daisy M. Bates in popular understanding and Indigenous policy, Australian journal of communication, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 1-14. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads waller-singularinfluence-2010.pdf Published version application/pdf 74.11KB 404 Title Singular influence : mapping the ascent of Daisy M. Bates in popular understanding and Indigenous policy Author(s) Waller, Lisa orcid.org/0000-0002-2689-8010 Journal name Australian journal of communication Volume number 37 Issue number 2 Start page 1 End page 14 Total pages 15 Publisher University of Queensland, School of English Place of publication Brisbane, QLD. Publication date 2010 ISSN 0811-6202 Summary 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. Language eng Indigenous content on Field of Research 200101 Communication Studies Socio Economic Objective 950204 The Media HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2010, University of Queensland, School of English Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30033774 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Communication and Creative Arts Higher Education Research Group Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 07 Apr 2011, 11:50:46 EST Thu, 07 Apr 2011, 11:51:32 EST Fri, 15 Apr 2011, 12:44:55 EST Wed, 20 Apr 2011, 14:37:16 EST Wed, 20 Apr 2011, 14:38:04 EST Thu, 23 Feb 2012, 12:36:46 EST Fri, 08 Mar 2013, 09:21:21 EST Tue, 05 Dec 2017, 10:48:48 EST Mon, 22 Jan 2018, 14:01:58 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 18:04:30 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 695 Abstract Views, 404 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 07 Apr 2011, 11:50:39 EST by Kylie Koulkoudinas