Archive for June, 2008
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
The Senate Inquiry into Naughty Words on TV (or Senator Cory Bernardi's quest to wash Gordon Ramsay's mouth out with soap) has resulted not in calls for more censorship, but a recommendation that all digital televisions sold in Australia be fitted with a parental lock out system.
The inquiry also recommended ...
Posted in Reports, TV Censorship | No Comments »
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
NSW TAFE student Alexander Gabbot has produced a great video about game censorship in Australia that's not only informative, it's funny as well. Cheers to Bookbuster for the tip off and Kotaku.
Great to see stuff like this, especially with the R18+ rating for games discussion paper on the table in ...
Posted in Game Censorship | No Comments »
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
I never thought I'd need a category for vehicle censorship when I started this blog, but than I never thought anyone could be offended by a camper van. Unfortunately, I was wrong.
Brisbane wowser and soon-to-be protector of the moral majority, Lucy Clark, is positively outraged that she was bombarded with ...
Posted in Parental outrage | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Parents and newspapers are going bonkers over an educational drug pamphlet (pictured here) put out by the Sydney West Area Health Service (SWAHS). A pamphlet they say encourages drug use because it advises readers of some precautions to take should they choose to experiment with drugs.
'It's wrong. It shouldn't be ...
Posted in Health Censorship, Parental outrage | 9 Comments »
Monday, June 16th, 2008
It wasn't too long back that Stephen Conroy was bragging about ISPs becoming flexible to his arguments for introducing mandatory ISP filtering. They had SEEN the LIGHT!
We all knew that was a pile of horse shit. Now two of Australia's largest ISPs, IINet and Internode, have publicly slammed the plan.
John ...
Posted in Internet Censorship | No Comments »
Sunday, June 15th, 2008
Refused Classification has an interesting snippet from Senate Estimates held May 27. In regards to the 'emergency' ban on pornography in certain areas of the Northern Territory, Labor Senator Trish Crossin asked whether expanding the ban to include all of the NT and the ACT had been discussed. Classification Board ...
Posted in Film Censorship | 5 Comments »
Friday, June 13th, 2008
'There is no censorship worth noting in Australia.' The words of former Australia Institute Executive Director, Clive Hamilton, at last nights Art Censorship debate in Sydney (video here).
Clive must be losing his memory. Did he forget that recent case where those nasty chaps at David Jones tried to silence The ...
Posted in Art Censorship | 9 Comments »
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Lenny Bruce's first Sydney performance in September 1962 didn't go down well. Arrested after he got up on stage and declared 'What a fucking wonderful audience,' his future gigs at the hotel he was performing were canceled and shows organised for UNSW by soon-to-be editor of Oz Magazine, Richard Neville, ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Right To Life New Zealand (RTLNZ) and the Society for the Promotion of Community Standards are spitting chips after the Revised International Edition of Dr Philip Nitschke's Peaceful Pill Handbook was approved by the countries OFLC providing it only be sold sealed to those over the age of eighteen.
The original ...
Posted in Book Censorship, Health Censorship, International | No Comments »
Monday, June 9th, 2008
Simon Chapman, a Professor in Public Health at the University of Sydney who specialises in tobacco control, warns that many of his colleagues in the health profession are seeking to have smoking in films either ...
Posted in Film Censorship, Health Censorship | 1 Comment »
