The commentary should critically examine the public policy response, using Bacchi’s.
How the social issue is constructed as a public policy problem?
What presuppositions or assumptions underlie this representation of the problem?
What effects are or might be produced by this representation of the problem?
What is left unproblematic in this representation?
Can the problem be thought about differently?
How could it be questioned, disrupted and replaced?
Examine the construction of policies and how they represent and ‘make up’ people.
Examine the language and ‘discourse’ used in the document; draw on excerpts from the policy document to explain how social issues are represented and addressed.
