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Despite little evidence of efficacy, public information campaigns have been a popular strategy for deterring migration. Advertising campaigns to dissuade would-be migrants from leaving home or seeking asylum are increasingly prevalent around the world, and Australia has devoted millions of dollars to these campaigns. Perhaps the most famous is the campaign launched in 2014, with the message: "No Way. You will not make Australia home." In this article, I develop the concept of enforcement infrastructure to illustrate the relationships, technologies, actors, and policies that together facilitate enforcement of Australia's borders and produce campaigns such as the "No Way" campaign. Just as infrastructure facilitates the production of value in other contexts, so too does the creation of enforcement infrastructure produce different types of value in the context of enforcement. Mapping the enforcement infrastructure highlights the different types of value produced by this constellation of actors, from profitable market research to reinforcing colonial logics of exclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores the effects of habitual health risk behaviors and self-activation on resistance to narrative persuasion. In two experiments, heavier drinkers were more resistant to an anti-binge-drinking narrative public service announcement (PSA) in which a binge drinker suffers a negative outcome. Specifically, heavier drinkers were more likely to generate counterarguments, unrealism judgments, and negative evaluations about the message compared to lighter drinkers or nondrinkers. However, activating self-concept when processing the persuasive narrative reduced unrealism judgments and negative evaluations, particularly among heavier drinkers. Self-activation also decreased perceived freedom threat among both heavier and lighter drinkers, which further led to higher perceived risk of binge drinking. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the same time as the Australian media was focusing attention on problems stemming from youthful binge drinking and was decrying a problematic national drinking culture, voluntary (and often philanthropic) campaigns oriented around temporarily giving up alcohol emerged. Although these temporary sobriety initiatives (TSI) originally positioned themselves as a solution to the problems being discussed, their popular appeal proved to be their alignment with larger currents of neoliberal governance in the fields of health, well-being, productivity and civic duty via philanthropy. This critical cultural history conducts a discourse analysis of TSI-generated materials and examines quantitative participant data to better understand how the initiatives framed themselves as a solution to the identified problems at the same time as they ever-more overtly pitched themselves to an already responsibilized segment of the population. The implications of these findings point to the larger role that TSI can play in addressing, in a non-regulatory way, both attitudes and behaviours among the majority of the population who are not considered problem drinkers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the proportions of health-related content in non-program time on Australian television, and how this relates to channel, product category, program genre and whether it is an advertisement or public service announcement (PSA). Design/methodology/approach - Australian prime time television was recorded across three commercial television stations in Sydney. Non-program content (NPC) was coded according to the channel, program genre, length of content and product advertised. In total, 44 hours of programming was recorded. Findings - Not surprisingly, significant differences were found in the percentage of health-related content between advertisements (22 percent) and PSAs (67 percent). Again unsurprisingly there was also a significant relationship between the product category and health-related content (?2=366.601, p=0.000), but also between health-related content and program genre (?2=20.594, p=0.024), particularly situation comedies (31 percent) and sport (15 percent). No difference was found in the percentage of health-related content between the channels. Research limitations/implications - Differences existing in the amount of NPC across program genre suggest that viewers of programs with high rates of health-related content in advertising may have higher exposure to product dependant health information. Originality/value - Health information is examined in a general sample without focus on particular demographics or health topics and the role of program genre is investigated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the ethical issues presented by the violent imagery used in the Australian White Ribbon Day campaign, which was designed to raise awareness about violence against women. These advertisements, which were designed by the advertising firm Saatchi & Saatchi, depicted fathers in situations where they were being eaten by sharks, having limbs amputated, or being run over by buses. The depiction of what many viewers took to be suicide and self-harm in advertisements encouraging fathers to participate in the campaign was criticized by mental health advocates. The authors test this hypothesis with an experiment that measures audience responses to the advertisements.

This article details the emergence of Radio Australia Online as a subsite of ABC Online in the late 1990s. In doing so it examines the altered understandings of 'national', 'international' and 'global' accompanying the emergence of World Wide Web services, and teases out the relationships between rhetoric surrounding Public Service Broadcasting, and rhetoric surrounding the Internet. It highlights the significance of molecular, local forces (such as the working circumstances of an individual) to the implementation of a global service, and it discusses ways that relations between 'old' and 'new' media are implicated in particular governing rationales both within the ABC and in the broader media economy. The Internet idea - that the Internet would globalise and democratise, that the Internet was intrinsically dynamic and interactive - is challenged in this instance. The public service broadcasting idea - that it is staid, monolithic and confined to outdated national technologies - is also challenged at the point where the Internet and public service broadcasting intersect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]