"Our position between Brisbane and the Gold Coast, combined with our connectivity and our diverse, professional
, provides us with a forum to success in our potential as a creative, vibrant future region" (CEO Silvio Trinca Region of Logan, 2018). The Logan
population is over 313,000 in 2018 with 217 different cultures and around 50 per cent of residents aged 30 or younger (Logan
Council, 2018). The Members of Logan are divided on the issue of
in the media,
irefers to the speaker or writer
.
the media are prejudicial to the
to portray Logan as one of the worst suburbs to live and work in. Due to the fact that the media has portrayed Logan
on the basis of stereotypes and discriminatory attitudes toward Logan
, and it’s focusing only on certain people.
, the media has disadvantaged Logan's
.
The media disadvantages the
of Logan by
Logan
based on stereotypes and discriminatory attitudes towards Logan
. To clarify, Google reported that Logan
is the worst
in Brisbane, and that the "clashes" people are living in Woodridge (Logan
suburb). The online urban dictionary
categorized anyone who lives in Logan
as a "bogan" (R. Wickes 2013).
, according to Rebecca Wickes, a lecture in a Criminology /
Fellows at the University of Queensland, "the disadvantage in Logan is higher than the high national and violent crime rates." It suggests that Google and the online urban dictionary websites are media sources that are at least partly biased, as they falsely portrayed people living in the Logan
by simply identifying people in the Logan
as "clashes" and "
bogansan agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each
".
in 2020, on Chronicle’s website, N. Brown launched an article in which Furphy and Rissole claimed and ranked Logan
as the worst
in Australia in 2019. The reasons given for their claim were that "the entire council was sacked for alleged corruption" and during
a "grub stolen 1,000
litersa metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)
of water." People in
have "common hobbies" of "sh*t-faced" and attacking people with wood strikes.
, they are committing ram raids in hot-wired
civics, and
welfare dependence. All
given were
evidentiallyunmistakably ('plain' is often used informally for 'plainly')
from "a pair wrote in a
review."
clearly shows that, based on the views of others, Logan
was portrayed by the Chronicle website to be one of the worst
in Australia. Through the depiction of the
as the worst area based on stereotypes and discriminatory attitudes towards Logan
, many news outlets
disadvantaged Logan
.
proven to my claim that Logan's
is disadvantaged by the media, the media
on certain people to
Logan
. In 2009, NewsComAu revealed Deakin University's damning survey and Australian Unity insurer found "Logan
delivered Queensland's lowest "personal wellness index" score and Australia's sixth lowest." The media
shared the perspective of Logan Mayor Pam Parker on Logan
, "What makes Logan different is not just its beautiful venue, it's the people and the
spirit that's
to none," and that Logan has got a whole lot better in recent years. The media,
, released the article entitled "Logan
's" unhappiest "
to live in Queensland,"
demonstrating that the media depicted Logan
in a derogatory way based solely on Deakin University's survey and Australian Unity insurer. In 2014, Ahuri published report and stated, "Interview participants reported drug-related crime
vehicle and property offences in the area. But most acknowledged low perceptions of
safety in the area.” The study shows Logan
is an unsafe
to stay because it lacks security.
, the study was conducted with "interview participants,"
proves that the research focused on only certain people rather than a whole
.In 2018, NewsComAu again published an article titled "Brazen youth
gangesan association of criminals
terrorising Brisbane," showing a picture of money on the floor in a letter "South Side 4114 *." That's true; kids were misbehaving, but giving the title using the word "ganges terrorising" and representing Logan
's perception because of these kids. It indicates that
media has focused only on these people to portray Logan
in a negative way.
, by concentrating on certain people, many media outlets have damaged Logan
by portraying the
negatively.
Logan
is represented by the media as one of the worst cities to live and work in, the fact remains that Logan's
has been disadvantaged by
. As the reasons have been proven from the outset,
image of Logan
has been based on negative stereotypes and discriminatory attitudes towards the
, and it was focused only on certain people. The "bogan" and "clash" images are just the stereotypes that Google, the online urban dictionary, and
have simply oversimplified, showing a strong negative belief in
divers Logan Suggestion
the divers Logan city
a divers Logan city
. The image of Logan
is
unhappiest and worse Suggestion
the unhappiest and worse place
an unhappiest and worse place
to live in, with lack of security, where the youth gangster terrorism would
. The media outlets
as NewsComAu and Ahuri,
, chosen to reinforce it on
negative
based exclusively on particular groups, represented it as a whole.
creates a strong suggestion about the negative and erroneous assumption of
of Logan
. But how do we erase
stereotypical and prejudiced against the instance
– Logan? The media have a clear role to play in fairly presenting and informing information.