Agenda Setting - W5

Policy Agenda - issues, problems that are currently at the forefront of our policy makers, is metaphorical

Models:

→ Kingdom Three Streams → convergence of these three streams

  • Problems - attention lurches to policy problem

  • Policies - a solution to the problem is available

  • Politics - government and party priorities come in, policymakers have the motive and opportunity to turn solution into policy

→ Soup

  • dont know what policies is going to result in, trial and error

→ Funnel of Causality

  • all involved

  • political machinery everything everywhere all at once

  • contains politically relevant incidents plus formal policy conversion & historic-geographic ocnditions, soceio-economic composition, mass political behaviour, governmental institutions, elite behavioour to make a policy output

→ Punctuated Equibilurium

  • agenda setting and policy process

  • normal phase (equiblirium)

  • critical phase (punctuations)

Public Sphere - conceptual format to help understand society

Incrementalism is the status quo, doesn’t necessarily have to be for or against

  1. Policy Problem, Importance, Assumptions

    • Racist, xenophobic but also needed the immigration for tourism, economic reasons, labour, workforce. Important, one, de-escalate racist rhetoric and increase ethnic diversification, immigration program

  2. Actors, Institutions, Role, Input

    • Whitlam Labor Government,

    • Growing multiculturalism

    • Department of Immigration

    • Public Pressure

    • Shift in immigration demographic (only small numbers of asian immigrants meant no use to the White Australia Policy)

    • vote allowance for indigenous populations

  3. How did the problem come about, how is it represented and portrayed, impacts of representation

    • Public and economic pressure of the negative portrayals of the White Australia Policy

    • Deformalisation was seen as act of altruism and humanitarianism towards the racist rhetoric against non-white Australians, portrayed as policies supporting ethnic communities

    • impacts included immigration numbers surged, immigration policy regime, department of immigration and ethnic affairs

  4. SIlences

    • No account for indigenous population, possibly still assimilation,

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Building Nuclear Waste Facility:

  1. Main Arguments and Counter Arguments

  • Cheap energy, financially friendly, more jobs, decreased unemployment, increased immigration, education opportunity for children

  • Dangerous, fossil fuel comparable, increased immigration, chance to use nuclear fuel for weaponery

  1. How Will This Play Out for Different Groups

  • Elders: safety beacuse of past experiences, may not want it because of weaponery

  • Builders:

  • Primary School Kids:

  • Green Party: Not for it

  1. Strategies and Policy Settings for Public Support

  • Soft Force:

  1. Techniques and Strategies to Build Support

  • Building roblox games, meme-ify, VR / In

  • Soft Force: inception of mentioning it in school

  • News coverage of nuclear energy and its benefits

  • media coverage,

TIMELINE:

→ Federation

→ Goldrush (1850’s)

→ White Australia Policy (1860’s)

  • Problem - racist and xenophobic rhetoric

→ Formalisation of White Australia Policy (1901)

→ Immigration Program / WW2 / 10% Migration Increase from other European States (1940’s)

→ Start of the De-formalisation of the White Australia Policy (1960’s)

→ Whitlam Labor discontinued White Australia Policy and start of multiculturalism (1973)

→ Formalisation of immigration policy scheme, citizenship test, and humanitarianism (1976)

→ Mandatory asylum seekers detention implementation (1992)

→ Mandatory Detention went off-shore and was formalised (1996 - 2001)

→ Rudd / Gillard Government temporary halt to mandatory detention (2007)

→ Operation Sovereign Borders instated due to Coalition Party as prior Labor government reinstated mandatory detention - ‘stop the boats (2010-13)

→ Scomo forced to include medical treatment for asylum seekers, and some asylum seekers would be sent to US (2019)

Assignment:

→ learn stuff you learnt in class in policy pitch

→ integrate what model you are using for agenda setting within pitch

→ analyse content