Ron Hoenig
University of South Australia, School of Communication, International Studies and Languages, Sessional LecturerTutor, and PhD Graudated
Dr Ron Hoenig was a lecturer and tutor in journalism at The University of South Australia until 2021. In 2013, he completed a PhD in Journalism and Cultural Studies with his thesis entitled Reading alien lips: Australian press depiction of lip sewing by asylum seekers and the construction of national identity and has written several papers examining the treatment by Australian print media of recent asylum seekers. This work brings together his passions about writing, multiculturalism and the ethics of depiction of cultural Others.He was born of Hungarian Jewish refugee parents in Israel. His family moved to Australia in 1952, and he studied English in Melbourne and did a masters at the City College of New York on Jewish novels of the 1930s. He has a background in the arts and multiculturalism, having worked as a teacher, playwright, actor, community arts administrator and arts bureaucrat.He is the Chair of the Australian Council of Christians and Jews and the Jewish Co-Chair of the Council of Christians and Jews (SA), a former President of Beit Shalom Synagogue, Adelaide and a member of the reference group of the Abraham Institute. In 2011 he was nominated for a lifetime achievement award for his activities in promoting multiculturalism in South Australia.
Supervisors: Margaret Peters and Ian Richards
Supervisors: Margaret Peters and Ian Richards
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The paper was an occasional address for the Council of Christians and Jews of Western Australia Monday 9 November 2015 in my capacity as Deputy Chair Australian Council of Christians and Jews and Jewish Co-Chair, Council of Christians and Jews (SA)
Other in mainstream media is noted by
many scholars. In this article, a number
of newspaper articles about asylum
seekers in lip sewing episodes at
Woomera in 2002 are examined using
critical discourse analysis and drawing
on critical race and whiteness studies.
While many news articles depict asylum
seekers negatively, most of the selected
texts provide a positive depiction of
asylum seekers. A combination of
discourse analysis and literary exegesis
demonstrates how journalists draw on
existing discourses in the cultural
imaginary to shape their depictions of
cultural and racial Others. The
suggestion is made that different
narratives and rhetorical formations are
deployed not merely to depict the
asylum seeker as an abject Other to be
pitied or reviled, but also to construct
different versions of Jennifer Rutherford’s
“good (white) Australian” reader. These
constructions of the reader form a
subtext beneath the reporting of news
and reveal the extent to which the
representation of the Other involves
white projections, desires and imaginings
of the cultural Other. Rather than
providing information about and insight
into the cultural/racial Other, such texts
may be better understood as
interventions in an ongoing discourse
within the White “mainstream” about
Our national identity.
The paper was an occasional address for the Council of Christians and Jews of Western Australia Monday 9 November 2015 in my capacity as Deputy Chair Australian Council of Christians and Jews and Jewish Co-Chair, Council of Christians and Jews (SA)
Other in mainstream media is noted by
many scholars. In this article, a number
of newspaper articles about asylum
seekers in lip sewing episodes at
Woomera in 2002 are examined using
critical discourse analysis and drawing
on critical race and whiteness studies.
While many news articles depict asylum
seekers negatively, most of the selected
texts provide a positive depiction of
asylum seekers. A combination of
discourse analysis and literary exegesis
demonstrates how journalists draw on
existing discourses in the cultural
imaginary to shape their depictions of
cultural and racial Others. The
suggestion is made that different
narratives and rhetorical formations are
deployed not merely to depict the
asylum seeker as an abject Other to be
pitied or reviled, but also to construct
different versions of Jennifer Rutherford’s
“good (white) Australian” reader. These
constructions of the reader form a
subtext beneath the reporting of news
and reveal the extent to which the
representation of the Other involves
white projections, desires and imaginings
of the cultural Other. Rather than
providing information about and insight
into the cultural/racial Other, such texts
may be better understood as
interventions in an ongoing discourse
within the White “mainstream” about
Our national identity.