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Association: Name: ISPP 31st Annual Scientific Meeting URL: http://ispp.org
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Kurz, Tim. "Fighting the ‘Climate Change Election’: A discursive analysis of Australian political rhetoric around climate change" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISPP 31st Annual Scientific Meeting, Sciences Po, Paris, France, Jul 09, 2008 <Not Available>. 2010-01-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p246359_index.html>

Kurz, T. R. , 2008-07-09 "Fighting the ‘Climate Change Election’: A discursive analysis of Australian political rhetoric around climate change" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISPP 31st Annual Scientific Meeting, Sciences Po, Paris, France Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2010-01-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p246359_index.html

Publication Type: Paper (prepared oral presentation) Abstract: The release of the fourth UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report in February 2007 prompted a flood of responses from political leaders around the globe. Perhaps nowhere was this more apparent than in Australia, which (under the incumbent conservative government) had remained one of only two developed nations (along with the USA) not to have ratified the Kyoto Protocol. The release of the IPCC report also coincided with the first sitting week of the Australian Parliament, in an election year. This election would be ultimately won by the opposition Labor Party, with ‘action on climate change’ as one of their key platforms. The current study involves a discursive analysis of climate change rhetoric produced by politicians from the major Australian political parties in the period between the release of the IPCC and the November 2007 Federal Election. Data include both transcripts of parliamentary debate and statements directly broadcast in the media. The analysis focuses on the various ways in which the issue of climate change was invoked and rhetorically managed by each of the two parties in the lead up to the election. In particular, it focuses on the extent to which this issue represented something of a difficult ideological dilemma for both sides of politics, with both parties needing to strategically manage their positions with regards to discourses of ‘national interest’ and ‘economic management’. Implications will be discussed in terms of the potential roles that global environmental issues may play in ‘electioneering’, at national levels, in coming years.

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