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Moving beyond the media's 'deficit lens' is essential for racialised peoples to claim belonging. Here's how they're doing it

  • Written by Sukhmani Khorana, Senior Research Fellow, Western Sydney University
Moving beyond the media's 'deficit lens' is essential for racialised peoples to claim belonging. Here's how they're doing itShutterstock

Australia’s mainstream media has long viewed refugees, migrants and Indigenous communities through a “deficit lens”. That’s where these populations – in all their glorious complexity – are framed simply as a “problem” that needs to be “fixed”. Never achieving enough. Never...

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