Brian Burkett
Brian Burkett is an independent researcher and writer based in Townsville. His research and interests are currently directed towards examining the workings of power, discourse, race and exclusion in rural and regional Australia.
Brian's recent articles
22 July 2024
It’s the Voice of ‘Rural Nullius’ on a Jim Crow Country Hour
With just a few more stories farmers in the south of Israel would have been granted as much air time as all the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations in Australia put together.
10 November 2022
Who benefits from the ABCs rural journalism?
As part of the ABCs financial deal with tech giants Google and Facebook late last year itcommitted to investing the revenue inregional and rural Australia. Brian Burkett, Emma Mesikmmen and Lisa Waller analysed ABC Rurals radio programming around the recent federal election to find out who benefits from the ABCs rural journalism.
9 February 2021
ABC Country Hour mouthpiece of Liberal National Party and rural elites?
ABC Country Hour is marketed as the voice of the bush; but whose voice and whose bush? A recent investigation reveals how Country Hour does the bidding of the Liberal and National Parties and their powerful friends while glossing over the likes of climate change, Indigenous issues and the #watergate scandal.