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Increased pressure on risk industries to reduce their negative impact on society has resulted in an increasing volume of "risk" and "responsibility" communications from interest groups known as Social Aspects Public Relations Organizations (SAPROs). SAPROs have been criticized for being the "front groups" of risk industries (e.g., the tobacco, gambling, sugar, and alcohol industries). Operating within the neoliberal policy framework, SAPROs seek to forestall regulation and prioritize industry profits over public health. Building on risk industry research from the public health sphere, this article examines the SAPRO phenomenon and situates it in the political public relations (PR) literature. Specifically, it considers how SAPROs perform an indirect lobbying function on behalf of their funding industries. Using DrinkWise as an example of an alcohol SAPRO, this article shows that SAPROs represent a novel development in front group strategy and examines how this development intersects with neoliberalism. This article also argues that SAPROs are deployed by risk industries to hegemonically promote the idea of personal responsibility and that their indirect lobbying function may be necessary to the continuance of neoliberal policies.

This briefing on what bothers Australian kids online builds upon a short report from the EU Kids Online network: In their own words: What bothers children online? Based upon research across 25 European nations, with 25,142 children (aged 9-16) and the parent or caregiver most involved in supporting the child's internet use, the In their own words report addresses children's answers to the question: 'What things on the internet would bother people about your age?' Children had not been asked about troubling content at this stage in the research, so their open-ended answers to this question represent the issues and subjects ofconcern that first came to mind when they thought about the kinds of online experiences that would trouble a child of about their age.The EU Kids Online short report In their own words: What bothers children online? can be accessed athttp://www2.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/research/EUKidsOnline/EU%20Kids%20III/Reports/Intheirownwords020213.pdf The report's authors are: Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK; Lucyna Kirwil, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland; Cristina Ponte, Lisbonne University, Portugal; and Elisabeth Staksrud, University of Oslo, Norway, together with members of the EU Kids Online network. The Australian report is based on this prior work by Livingstone et al (2013), and acknowledges that all intellectual property and rights in this research belong to the EU Kids Online network, which is funded by the EC (DG Information Society) Safer Internet plus Programme (project code SIP-KEP-321803) (2006-2014); see www.eukidsonline.net. The full report of the EU Kids Online project examines risks and opportunities associated with children's internet use in 25 European nations. It details the methodology used for the random selection of participants and is available from:http://www2.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/research/EUKidsOnline/EU%20Kids%20II%20(2009-11)/EUKidsOnlineIIReports/D4FullFindings.pdf

This book examines the vital role of swamps in the making of Australian culture, history, society, community, and language. The volume highlights the importance of the wetlands to indigenous Australian cultures, nineteenth-century European explorers and settlers, and contemporary conservationists and ecologists.