CULTURAL DIVERSITY

AND NEWS IN AUSTRALIA

INAUGURAL CONFERENCE

WEDNESDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2017

DEAKIN DOWNTOWN

http://www.deakin.edu/cdnsymposium

@DiversityInNews #diversityinnewsAU

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We wish to acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nations, the traditional

owners of the land on which we are gathered today. We pay our respects to the local

people for allowing us to have our gathering on their land and to their Elders: past,

present and future.

The conference convenors are:

Dr Usha M. Rodrigues Senior Lecturer, Journalism

Faculty of Arts and Education Deakin University

usha.rodrigues@deakin.edu.au

Professor Yin Paradies Alfred Deakin Professor

Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation Deakin University

yin.paradies@deakin.edu.au This conference is part of a research project, titled Transnational News and Multicultural Australia, which is supported by the Victoria Government’s Social Cohesion Research Grant, Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), the Ethnic Communities' Council of Victoria (ECCV) and Deakin University. The convenors would like to thank all speakers, panellists and presenters for their participation in the Cultural Diversity and News in Australia conference. The convenors also thank Dr Rebecca Hutton and Ms Sonia Singha for their assistance with the research project and the organisation of the conference.

VENUE: Deakin Downtown Level 12, Tower 2,

727 Collins Street, Melbourne

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OVERVIEW

8.30am– Registration

9am– Inauguration:

Professor Brenda Cherednichenko, Executive Dean Arts & Education (Deakin University)

9.15am– Keynote 1:

Professor Gillian Triggs

10am– Discussion Panel: Setting the Scene

11.15am– Morning tea

11.45am– Keynote 2:

Tracey Spicer

Research Panel:

Women, Media and Culture

12.50pm– Remarks: Professor Jane den Hollander,

Vice-Chancellor (Deakin University)

1pm– Lunch

2pm– Discussion Panels: Research and Strategies

Representations of multicultural issues in the media

Representations of Australia(n) in the media

Online media and alternative news sources

Ethnic media

News audiences and social media

Employment in Media

Practice and Policy

3.30pm– Afternoon tea

4pm –

5pm

Bringing It Together

Concluding remarks and conference end

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INAUGURATION

CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND NEWS IN AUSTRALIA CONFERENCE

Inauguration: Brenda Cherednichenko

Professor Brenda Cherednichenko is Executive Dean Arts and Education at

Deakin University which includes the Institute of Koorie Education, School of

Communication and Creative Arts, School of Education, and the School of

Humanities and Social Science. Brenda’s research has focused on educational

equity and community-university partnerships for improved educational

opportunity and socially just outcomes.

Keynote: Gillian Triggs

Emeritus Professor Gillian Triggs is the Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at the

University of Melbourne, having recently ended her term as President of the

Australian Human Rights Commission. She is also Vice-President of the Asian

Development Bank’s Tribunal. She was previously Dean of the Faculty of Law

and Challis Professor of International Law at The University of Sydney, and

Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in

London. Gillian specialises in public international law, WTO law and human

rights and is the author of International Law: Contemporary Principles and

Practices (2nd ed. 2011).

MC: Sarah Abo

Sarah Abo reports for SBS World news, based at the Melbourne newsroom. She

started her career at Network Ten as a reporter and presenter, joining SBS in

2013. She was a US Presidential Election correspondent, anchoring SBS’s

nightly coverage live from Washington DC, New York and other states in

America. Sarah was born in Syria and holds a BA with Honours in Journalism

from Monash University.

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DISCUSSION PANEL: SETTING THE SCENE

CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND NEWS: ISSUES & STRATEGIES

Chair: Karen Farquharson

Karen Farquharson is Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Health, Arts & Design at Swinburne University of Technology. Her research focuses on the sociology of racism, media and sport.

Panellists:

Gaven Morris

Gaven Morris has extensive experience as a news executive, editor, reporter and producer, and was appointed Director, News for the ABC in October 2015. This role includes overseeing all of the ABC’s digital and broadcast news output – including flagship programs such as the 7pm News, 7.30, Four Corners, Australian Story, Q&A, Foreign Correspondent, AM and PM, scheduled TV and radio news, the ABC News website and social media channels.

Jim Carroll

Jim Carroll is Director – News & Current Affairs at SBS which he joined in 2013 after more than two decades in senior roles at Australia’s three commercial television networks: The Nine Network, Network Seven and Network Ten. Jim is also a director of the Australian Science Media Centre and the Australia Day Council (NSW).

Damien Cave

Damien Cave is The New York Times's new Australia Bureau Chief. Since joining The Times in 2004, he's also been a Deputy National Editor, Miami bureau chief and a Metro reporter, and his work last year with a team exploring race, ethnicity and immigration in America was recently nominated for an Emmy award and an Online News Association award.

Ahmet Keskin

Ahmet Keskin is Executive Director of the Australian Intercultural Society, a not-for-profit organisation seeking to build bridges between diverse communities. He is one of the co-founders of Affinity Intercultural Foundation and was a NSW Centenary ANZAC Ambassador.

Andrew Markus

Andrew Markus is the Pratt Foundation Research Professor of Jewish Civilisation at Monash University and is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Andrew has published extensively in the field of Australian immigration history and since 2007 has been the Senior Researcher for the Scanlon Foundation social cohesion research program.

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Charles Allen

Charles Allen is a Superintendent at Victoria Police, Priority Communities Division. This Division is leading change to ensure policing practice is consistent with the needs of our diverse Victorian Community. The Division has portfolios for Aboriginal, Disability, LGBTI, Human Rights, Mental Health, Multicultural, Seniors and Youth. Media communications are a critical element to managing this wellbeing.

Anna Parle

Anna Parle is the Victorian State Chief Resilience Officer and Director of the Community Resilience and Social Inclusion branch at the Department of Premier and Cabinet. Anna is a communications and strategy specialist and brings years of diverse experience to this position. Prior to being appointed to her current role, Anna led the design, development and implementation of the Victorian Government’s “Victorian. And Proud of it” Campaign.

RESEARCH PANEL: WOMEN, MEDIA & CULTURE

Chair: Antoinette Lattouf (Media Diversity Australia)

Antoinette Lattouf is the co-founder of Media Diversity Australia, a not-for-

profit organisation that promotes balanced cultural representation in news

media. She’s also an award-winning journalist and senior reporter at the ABC.

Keynote: Tracey Spicer

Tracey Spicer is an iconoclast whose TEDx Talk ‘The Lady Stripped Bare’ has

been seen by nearly 2.5 million people. The journalist and newsreader has

anchored national news, current affairs and lifestyle programs for Network

Ten, Sky News and ABC TV, and brought her sassy style to 702 Sydney and

Radio 2UE. Her ‘full-frontal’ columns appear regularly in Fairfax newspapers

and on opinion websites. The 50-year-old is the co-founder and national

convenor of Women in Media. Tracey’s memoir ‘The Good Girl Stripped Bare’

was recently published by HarperCollins in April.

Papers:

Mary Barry (Our Watch) The media’s role in preventing violence against women and their children

Mary Barry is the Chief Executive Officer of Our Watch, the national

organisation to prevent violence against women and their children.  Mary was

previously CEO of the National Heart Foundation of Australia.  Prior to this

Mary was CEO of the Victorian State Emergency Service for eight years and

CEO of the Victorian Association of Health and Extended Care for six years.

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Adele Murdolo (MCWH)

Media representations of migrant and refugee communities and violence

against women

Dr Adele Murdolo is the Executive Director at the Multicultural Centre for

Women’s Health, a national centre of health promotion, research and advocacy

for immigrant and refugee women. Adele has a background in feminist

research, with specific expertise in intersectionality, violence against women

and women’s health. She has a PhD in Women’s Studies and History, and is an

Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne.

Closing Remarks: Jane den Hollander

Professor Jane den Hollander AO has been Vice-Chancellor of Deakin

University since July, 2010. At Deakin, Professor den Hollander introduced

LIVE the future, an aspiration for Deakin to drive the digital frontier in higher

education, harnessing the power, opportunity and reach of new and emerging

technologies in all that it does. She is a Board member of Education Australia

Limited and UniSuper Limited. Professor den Hollander received an Order of

Australia for her distinguished service to tertiary education in the 2017

Australia Day Honours awards.

DISCUSSION PANELS: RESEARCH & STRATEGIES

PANEL: REPRESENTATION OF MULTICULTURAL ISSUES IN THE MEDIA

Chairs: Eddie Micallef (ECCV) & John Trevorrow (Former Editor-in-chief

Leader Community News)

Eddie Micallef is the Chairperson at Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria,

the peak policy advocacy organisations for over 220 ethnic and multicultural

community groups.

John Trevorrow has 42 years' experience as a journalist. He recently retired

after 8 years as Editor-in-chief at Leader Community News, News Corp's chain

of 26 community mastheads across Melbourne. Before that he spent more than

20 years at the Herald Sun.

Papers:

Tanya Muscat

Metropolitan Journalism and Civic Potential in Multicultural Societies

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Dr Tanya Muscat has a PhD in Media Studies at Macquarie University,

Australia. Her research focuses on spatial and identity politics in the context of

mainstream media, migration, multiculturalism, and civic culture.

Penny O’Donnell

Making Multicultural News

Dr Penny O'Donnell is Senior Lecturer in International Media and Journalism

in the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney.

She is participating in the university's Culturally Competent Leadership

Program.

PANEL: REPRESENTATIONS OF AUSTRALIA(N) IN THE MEDIA

Chairs: Andrew Holden (Cricket Australia) & Nicola Harvey (BuzzFeed)

Andrew Holden is Cricket Australia's head of communications, a role he has

held for 12 months. Prior to this, he was the editor-in-chief of The Age, which

capped a 30-year career in journalism.

Nicola Harvey is Managing Editor of BuzzFeed Australia, and project lead for

the news and entertainment editorial teams. Since joining BuzzFeed in 2016,

Nicola has helped launch BuzzFeed Oz's podcast strand, including the political

show Is It On? and Pretty for An Aboriginal, hosted by Nakkiah Lui and

Miranda Tapsell, and developed Twitter live productions and local news video

channels @BuzzFeedOz & @BuzzFeedOzNews.

Paper:

Nasya Bahfen

Defining ‘Australian’: Media Coverage of Soccer and Multiculturalism

Dr Nasya Bahfen coordinates the postgraduate journalism degree at La Trobe,

and is the graduate research coordinator for the school of media and

communication. She is also an AFL multicultural ambassador.

PANEL: ONLINE MEDIA AND ALTERNATIVE NEWS SOURCES

Chairs: Alan Sunderland (ABC) & David King (The Australian)

As the Editorial Director of the ABC, Alan Sunderland is responsible for

overseeing the editorial standards of all the ABC’s output, providing advice,

guidance and editorial training. Alan has spent 38 years in public journalism

for both the ABC and SBS, working as a reporter, producer and manager.

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David King is the Victorian Editor of The Australian newspaper. He has

previously been the paper's Deputy Editor (news), National Chief of Staff and

Sydney Bureau Chief.

Paper:

Catherine Gomes & Shanton Chang

Relevance and access: Traditional New Media in the Lives of International

Students

Dr Catherine Gomes is a Senior Lecturer at RMIT University in Melbourne and

recently completed an Australian Research Council DECRA (Discovery Early

Career Research Award) fellowship. Her work covers migration,

transnationalism and diasporas, particularly transient migration in Australia

and Singapore.

Associate Professor Shanton Chang is a teaching and research academic at The

School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne.

His research areas include the information needs and seeking behaviour of

international students, in domains such as education and health.

PANEL: ETHNIC MEDIA

Chair: Russell Anderson (NEMBC)

Papers:

Russell Anderson Ethnic Community Media Challenges and Opportunities to Social Cohesion

Russell Anderson is a communications specialist with extensive experience

from 24 years in various media roles. He has worked for international

organisations including the United Nations, UNICEF, UNDP, AusAID and for

national and international NGOs and local government. Russell has been the

CEO of the National Ethnic and Multicultural Broadcasters Council for 9 years.

Charitha Dissanayake

‘News; But not news!’ News coverage by ethnic radio which are neglected

by mainstream media

Charitha Dissanayake is a PhD candidate at Deakin University and his research

is on ethnic radio programming in Australia. Currently he is serving as a Grant

Accessor at Community Broadcasting Fund, member of the managing board at

Mountain District Radio (3MDR) and presents his own radio program weekly

in Sinhala language.

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PANEL: NEWS AUDIENCES AND SOCIAL MEDIA

Chairs: Santilla Chingaipe (journalist & filmmaker) & Damien Cave (The

New York Times)

Santilla Chingaipe is an award-winning journalist and documentary

filmmaker.

Paper:

Usha M. Rodrigues, Yin Paradies & Michael Niemann

News consumption patterns and intercultural relations in Australia

Dr Usha M. Rodrigues is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism in the Faculty of Arts

and Education at Deakin University. Her research interests are investigating

contemporary journalism practices across various traditional and new media

platforms; media in India; social media’s impact on journalism and audiences.

She has co-authored three books on journalism and new media practices.

Professor Yin Paradies is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and

Deputy Director (research) at the Alfred Deakin Research Institute for

Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University. He conducts

interdisciplinary research on the health, social and economic effects of racism

as well as anti-racism theory, policy and practice.

Dr Michael Niemann is a Research Fellow in Digital Media Informatics at

Deakin University, specialising in computational linguistics and social

informatics. His current research focusses on how social media dialogue forms

and maintains online communities and their relationship with the main

community figures.

PANEL: EMPLOYMENT IN MEDIA

Chairs: Clare O’Neil (SBS) & Antoinette Lattouf (Media Diversity Australia)

Clare O’Neil is an avid media junkie who has lived and breathed content for

most of her waking and working life. Before finding her spiritual home at SBS,

she spent time at Free TV Australia, the ACCC, and the ACMA.

Paper:

Heather Anderson, Susan Luckman, Ruchi Sinha & Ruth Rentschler

Who gets to tell the story? Unpacking socially inclusive employment

practices within the Australian news media

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Dr Heather Anderson is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the School of

Communication, International Studies and Languages, University of South

Australia. Her research interests include media from the margins, prison radio

and media representations of under-represented groups.

PANEL: PRACTICE AND POLICY

Chairs: Michael Short (The Age) & Jack Latimore (IndigenousX)

Michael Short is The Age's Chief Editorial Writer, as well as a columnist. He is

a board member and ambassador of a number of organisations, and is a

frequent public speaker and moderator.

Jack Latimore is a Goori writer and researcher based in Melbourne. He writes

on Indigenous affairs, politics, culture, tech, media and journalism

Paper:

Florencia Melgar

Transnational Investigative Journalism: a multicultural methodological

proposal for an efficient practice

Florencia Melgar Hourcade is a Uruguayan–Australian investigative journalist

with experience in project management. She currently works at SBS as content

liaison between SBS’s 70 language programs and News and Current Affairs and

she’s nearing the completion of a PhD at RMIT University about a multicultural

approach to transnational investigative journalism.

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BRINGING IT TOGETHER

Chair: Andrew Holden (Cricket Australia)

Participants:

Eddie Micallef (Chairperson, Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria)

John Trevorrow (former Editor-in-chief, Leader Community News)

Nicola Harvey (Managing Editor, BuzzFeed Australia)

Alan Sunderland (Head of Editorial Policy, ABC)

David King (Victorian Editor, The Australian)

Russell Anderson (CEO, National Ethnic and Multicultural Broadcasters Council)

Santilla Chingaipe (journalist and documentary filmmaker)

Damien Cave (Australia Bureau Chief, The New York Times)

Clare O’Neil (Director of Corporate Affairs, SBS)

Antoinette Lattouf (co-founder of Media Diversity Australia)

Michael Short (Chief Editorial Writer, The Age)

Jack Latimore (IndigenousX)

Closing Remarks: Professor Yin Paradies

Please note that this is a conference about the media and several media practitioners will be in

attendance. As a result, this meeting has characteristics of a ‘public’ forum and parts of the conference

conversations will be recorded.