The use of media sources increases exponentially during a health crisis or disaster. Similarly, digital health information and misinformation can spread quickly through social media. From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the press conference has been one of the federal, state, and territory governments’ key outlets for providing updates, containing misinformation, reassuring constituents, and articulating public health measures. This article focuses on NSW press conferences relating to the major Delta outbreak in Australia. The article looks at the press conferences as they pertain to the NSW government's controversial targeting of the lower socioeconomic and ethnically diverse south-west ‘hotspot’ or ‘LGA of concern’, Fairfield, which turned the LGA into an area of intense policing. We argue strategic manoeuvring in the press conferences, through the individualisation of responsibility and blame shifting, formed part of the NSW government's attempts to minimise political fallout.

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从邦迪到费尔菲尔德：新南威尔士州 COVID-19 新闻发布会、健康信息和社会不平等

在健康危机或灾难期间，媒体资源的使用呈指数增长。同样，数字健康信息和错误信息也可以通过社交媒体迅速传播。自 COVID-19 大流行开始以来，新闻发布会一直是联邦、州和领地政府提供更新、包含错误信息、安抚选民和阐明公共卫生措施的主要渠道之一。本文重点关注与澳大利亚主要三角洲爆发有关的新南威尔士州新闻发布会。这篇文章着眼于新闻发布会，因为它们与新南威尔士州政府针对较低社会经济和种族多元化的西南“热点”或“关注的 LGA”Fairfield 的争议性目标有关，这将 LGA 变成了一个密集的警务区域。我们在新闻发布会上争论战略机动，