Australian communications and the public sphere : essays in memory of Bill Bonney

Edited By Helen Wilson. Includes Bibliographical References. Front Matter....Pages i-v Introduction....Pages 1-5 Public Spheres....Pages 6-26 Challenging Technological Determinism: Aborigines, Aussat and Remote Australia....Pages 27-45 Space Communication: Australia in the South Pacific....Pages 46-67 Failing the Public: The Media Marketplace....Pages 68-84 Radio National: Survival in the Age of Economic (Ir)rationalism....Pages 85-104 Speaking in Tongues: Multicultural Media and the Constitution of the Socially Homogeneous Australian....Pages 105-127 Constructing Broadcasting for the Public....Pages 128-146 Information as a Free Public Good....Pages 147-162 Public Relations: Mobilising Consent....Pages 163-182 National Liturgies: Policy Speeches in Four Australian Election Campaigns, 1949–83....Pages 183-207 Private Faces in Public Spaces: The NRMA, 1920–51....Pages 208-231 Bunging It On: Public Manners and Private Taste....Pages 232-247 The Protection Racket: Ordering the Public on the Streets....Pages 248-276 Afterword: Bill Bonney and the Contributors....Pages 277-286 Back Matter....Pages 287-294