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Agenda setting, framing and wage theft in Australia

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posted on 2024-09-18, 07:28 authored by Murphy James, Katie Lovelock, Emily FoleyEmily Foley

ABSTRACT: Over the past decade the problem of wage theft has burst onto the Australian policymaking scene, seemingly out of nowhere. Its meteoric rise, from a largely unrecognised issue to the broad public agenda, then onto the narrower governmental and decision agendas of state and federal governments, was a major feat in policy advocacy. It stands as a particularly outstanding example of the power of framing to change the salience and esteem of an issue. By tracing the journey of the wage theft issue through the different spheres of public and governmental attention, this research illuminates under-studied aspects of the re-framing and agenda-setting artforms and advances the study of advocacy group interventions in policy conflicts.

Funding

This research was partly funded by a research incubator grant from the University of Melbourne.

History

Publication Date

2024-06-03

Journal

Australian Journal of Political Science

Volume

59

Issue

2

Pagination

18p. (p. 179-196)

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

1036-1146

Rights Statement

© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.

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