Ms. Prime Minister offers both solace and words of caution for women politicians. After
closely analyzing the media coverage of former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell; two …

Australia's first woman prime minister, Julia Gillard, experienced widespread sexism and
misogyny in the media coverage of her ascension. Only a decade previously New Zealand's …

Asian international students in New Zealand originate largely from middle class families in
East and selected South East Asian nations (Pinches, 1999). For some, a New Zealand …

How the media reports political debates over fiscal policy may be important, especially in an
election year. This case study carries out a qualitative content analysis of print media …

Contributing to the broader debate on the nature and identity of the European Union (EU),
this thesis is a study of the EU from the outside looking in: an examination of how this novel …

A qualitative content analysis of New Zealand newspapers from 1997 to 2002 shows how
the overwhelmingly conservative print media in that country used a highly partial version of …

Previous studies of political campaigning have focused on developed and industrialised
nations. This research analysed the three phases of campaigning in a case study of a …

The freedom to provide a wide range of content from diverse sources allows the media to
fulfil its role as facilitator of the public sphere. Having access to a wide range of content from …

This dissertation examines the New Zealand Herald campaign against the Electoral Finance
Bill (EFB), which ran from November through to December 2007. The EFB was an extremely …