@article{ed255f8612144aaa875147eb723b4dbf,
title = "Food security in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in remote Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of print news media and press releases",
abstract = "Objective: This article aims to examine the framing of the issue of food security in very remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in print media and press releases during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Methods: Newspaper articles were identified following a systematic search of the Factiva database, and press releases were identified from manual search of key stakeholder websites from January to June 2020 and analysed using a combined adapted framework of the Bacchi's What's the Problem Represented to be? Framework and the Narrative Policy Framework. Results: A food delivery “problem” dominated representations in press releases, and food supply at store level had prominence in print media. Both presented the cause of food insecurity as a singular, identifiable point in time, framed the issue as one of helplessness and lack of control, and proposed policy action. Conclusions: The issue of food security was represented in the media as a simple issue requiring an immediate fix, as opposed to a complex issue requiring a systems-level and sustained policy response. Implications for public health: This study will help to guide future media dialogue to impact on both immediate and longer-term solutions to food insecurity in very remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Australia.",
keywords = "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, COVID-19, food security, food supply, media, remote communities",
author = "{van Burgel}, Emma and Stacey Holden and Megan Ferguson and Katherine Cullerton and Julia McCartan and Nicole Turner and Beau Cubillo and Georgia Day and Julie Brimblecombe",
note = "Funding Information: Chosen sample texts of both the print media articles and press releases were analysed using the two analysis frameworks by the first author (EvB) and senior author (JB) and, following discussion with co-authors, any discrepancies in analysis were resolved. Press releases and print media articles were analysed using the combined, modified framework (EvB, GD) (Table 2). The WPR formed the backbone of the media analysis, with questions 1–3 and 5 being considered in the analysis through the factors described in the NPF (Table 2, Supplementary Table 1). The NPF theory of characters described in a narrative (i.e., victim, hero, villain) gave the authors insight into the context that the WPR was to be applied (i.e., WPR Question 1—what is the {\textquoteleft}problem{\textquoteright} represented to be).26 Bacchi's second question that relates to assumptions underlying the representation was explored through the NPF concept of plot narrative, which organises characters of a narrative relative to each other and highlights underlying social constructions of a policy, or in this case, media portrayal.26 NPF's theory paradigm was also explored, following the notion that an audience comes to interact with a narrative with their own theories and beliefs shaping their interaction.26 The third WPR question aligned with NPF's focus on evidence (what evidence is cited and for what purpose) and causal mechanism (a narrative element that emphasises relationships within the issue presented).26 The WPR effects (WPR Question 5) produced by the representation were supported by NPF's elements of morals, and cost benefit, where NPF shows the conflicts within a narrative and how this is portrayed with costs and benefits.26 The combined frameworks were used to allocate codes for each section of the framework, resulting in numerical data, or extract text to illustrate the code, giving qualitative data. Each article could be allocated more than one code for each part of the extraction table, for example, two or more codes could be allocated for the problem code (Table 2).JB was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Translating Research into Practice Fellowship (1168333). Funding Information: JB was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Translating Research into Practice Fellowship ( 1168333 ). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 The Authors",
year = "2023",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1016/j.anzjph.2023.100058",
language = "English",
volume = "47",
pages = "1--10",
journal = "Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health",
issn = "1326-0200",
publisher = "Public Health Association of Australia",
number = "3",
}