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1 Family Men and the Women They Murdered : A Critique of Popular Press Reporting of Three Crimes in Australia Janine Little , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Hecate , January vol. 46 no. 1/2 2020; (p. 138-163)
'This essay targets a version of the "family man," in media cultural representation, that serves patriarchal and capitalist interests as a gendered figure of social/structural support for violence against women. It reads three violent crimes where white, middle-class men in conventional, ideated family roles murder the women who are either married to, or estranged from them. I locate aspects of media coverage of the crimes that run contrary to a public narrative of outrage about "domestic" violence and "family" violence that feeds into a more general, neoliberal tendency of sounding progressive without being politically so, identified, among others, by Faith Agostinone-Wilson in 2020.

Analysis of media texts shows that concerted efforts to identify multi-faceted expressions of men's privilege are a way to resist even subtly naturalised forms of men’s violence against women. Extreme and lethal instances of this violence (as victims' "family" experience) are reported ever more frequently. The project of insisting upon the implicit connections between notions of white middle-class normalcy and the stereotypical family to structurally supported, gendered violence is reaffirmed as necessarily disruptive.' (Publication abstract)
1 A Mystery Haunting Us All : Historicising Media Cultural Explanations of Family Violence Through Australia's Jaidyn Leskie Child Murder Case Janine Little , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 45 no. 1/2 2019; (p. 209-230, 310)

'This paper demonstrates the historical importance of a notorious Australian child murder to developing research on cultural factors influencing public understanding of family violence. It shows how the 1997 disappearance of 13-month-old Jaidyn Leskie from his babysitter's house in a downcast regional Australian town still matters in media and cultural explanations of child murder as an extreme end point of such violence. The scene set is of a haunted postcolonial imaginary moving subjects through media cultural space as failures of class and gender performance. Its tableau of "freaks" forms when the child murder story is written and read from a late-twentieth-century aspirational vista, and its key subjects underperform, in neoliberal terms, their class and gender roles. I observe them as prototypes for more likely subjects in contemporary media attempts to explain violence against children, and family violence more broadly, as a problem of role performance in Australia's haunted media culture. I suggest deconstructive engagement with texts that capture this process, but also invoke particular ghosts as they strive to explain a tragic crime.'  (Publication abstract)

1 Geelong Advertiser Janine Little , 2014 single work companion entry
— Appears in: A Companion to the Australian Media : G 2014; (p. 192)
1 Journalism, Creative Non-fiction and Australia's Black History : 'The Tall Man' and Cross-cultural Source Relationships Janine Little , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Journalism Review , December vol. 32 no. 2 2010; (p. 47-58)

'In early 2005 Chloe Hooper arrived at the Aboriginal community of Palm Island in Far North Queensland as a white writer from Melbourne. By 'walking the talk' - being with the Doomadgee family and their community through two coronial inquests into Mulrunji Doomadgee's death in custody - Hooper was given extraordinary access to a community, its history and the cultural nuance little understood by non-Indigenous readers, and not often shared with them. Focusing on Hooper's experience, particularly with her Aboriginal sources in Queensland, this paper will consider the comparative roles of journalism and creative non-fiction in conveying more of the complexities and realities of the Palm Island "riot" that ensued when Mulrunji died. It will suggest that Hooper's way of working helped subvert some dominant ideological news media representations of Australian Indigenous peoples because it privileged strong source relationships set in an extended narrative structure. The usefulness of creative non-fiction as a teaching device within journalism education is also considered through some reflection on a specific pedagogical experience.'

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1 Living to Tell the Tale : Survival and Connection Janine Little , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 18 no. 1 2006;

— Review of The Girl with the Cardboard Port Judith McNeil , 2006 single work autobiography
1 (Re)citing the Sovereign Source : Media Representations of Indigenous Peoples Janine Little , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Introductory Indigenous Studies in Education : The Importance of Knowing 2005; (p. 101-116)
1 Incantations of Grief and Memory Janine Little , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 14 no. 2 2002;

— Review of Her Sister's Eye Vivienne Cleven , 2002 single work novel
1 Funny for Some, Terrifying for Others : The Ready-Made Worldview Janine Little , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 14 no. 1 2002;

— Review of Raven Road Cassandra Pybus , 2001 single work autobiography
1 Glory Days Janine Little , 2002 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 167 2002; (p. 20-22)
1 Family Tries Mudrooroo , Janine Little , 2001 single work short story
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 61 no. 1 2001; (p. 72-77)
1 That's Doctor Ginibi to You: Hard Lessons in the History and Publication of Ruby Langford Ginibi Janine Little , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , Winter vol. 58 no. 2 1998; (p. 31-47)
1 1 Racism of the Highbrow Kind Janine Little , 1998 single work biography
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 13 July 1998; (p. 13)
1 Tribute and Memory Janine Little , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , March vol. 7 no. 1 1995; (p. 18-19)

— Review of Oodgeroo Kathleen J. Cochrane , 1994 single work biography
1 World of the First Australians Janine Little , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 4 February 1995; (p. wkd 7)

— Review of Aboriginal Mythology : An A-Z Spanning the History of Aboriginal Mythology from The Earliest Legends to The Present Day Mudrooroo , 1994 reference non-fiction
1 Oodgeroo : A Selective Checklist Janine Little , 1994 single work biography bibliography
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 16 no. 4 1994; (p. 178-187)
1 Talking with Ruby Langford Ginibi Janine Little (interviewer), 1994 single work interview
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 20 no. 1 1994; (p. 100-121)
1 A Conversation with Mudrooroo Janine Little (interviewer), 1993 single work interview
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 19 no. 1 1993; (p. 143-154)
1 An Interview with Archie Weller Janine Little (interviewer), 1993 single work interview
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 16 no. 2 1993; (p. 200-207)
1 'Deadly' Work : Reading the Short Fiction of Archie Weller Janine Little , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 16 no. 2 1993; (p. 190-199)
1 "Tiddas in Struggle": A Consultative Project with Murri, Koori and Nyoongah Women Janine Little , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Span , December no. 37 1993; (p. 24-32)
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