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POIR2010 - Contemporary Issues in Australian Politics: Race, Nation, Class and Gender

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Project description

Australia confronts a number of persistent questions: does it live up to its reputation as an egalitarian country whose unofficial motto is a 'fair go for all!'? How have class relations been influenced by the mining boom and its aftermath? Are Australian women and men making progress toward greater equality? What are the prospects for �closing the gap� between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and more recent arrivals? Taking as its central themes, race, nation, class, and gender, the course is structured into sections addressing race and nation; class politics; gender and sexuality.

Year 2022

Location Australia

Organization Macquarie University

Project aims

Project outcome

1. Demonstrate the ability to peer below the surface feature of Australian politics and its discourses to identify the underlying inequalities at play 3. Understand and identify linkages between class, race, gender and Australian nationhood 4. Critically analyse Australian politics and assess the ways in which it reinforces, reduces or normalises inequality 5. Demonstrate capacity to assess the extent that the media and new technologies impact � if at all � on the reproduction of existing social relations 6. Demonstrate critical understanding of the interplay between discourse, ideology, structures and agency in shaping the makeup of Australian society in terms of race, nation, class and gender