TY - JOUR AU - Davies, Kayt AU - Barndon, Karma PY - 2016/07/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Frontline: Interrogating power and disrupting the discourse about Onslow and the gas hubs JF - Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa JA - PJR VL - 22 IS - 1 SE - Frontline DO - 10.24135/pjr.v22i1.18 UR - https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/18 SP - 167-186 AB - When government statements talk about a secret deal with a multinational consortium that will see more than A$250 million spent on a town with a population of around 1000 people, questions need to be asked. Basic maths equates the spend to around A$250,000 a person and yet many people in the town are unhappy about the whole deal. Tracking Onslow was a collaboration between a university and a local government that used journalism as a methodology to document and interrogate the interaction between Chevron, the state and local governments and the Onslow community over a three-year period. This article focuses on the production of the lead feature of the final edition. It presents the published article and a reflexive exegesis that uses Foucault’s ideas about power and knowledge to frame and evaluate the journalistic endeavour. ER -