Upcoming TV shows about censorship
A quick list of upcoming TV shows about censorship: Insight: The Naked Eye SBS 7:30PM Tuesday, 24 June, 2008 Jenny Brockie brings the Bill Henson debate to our TV screens. Guests include The Incredible Hetty, Tony Bond from the Art Gallery of NSW, Tamara Winkoff from NAVA, Connie Petrill, and model, Zoe Bailey. Jennifer Byrne...
Anna Bligh not happy with Wicked camper vans
Queensland Premier and suit connoisseur Anna Bligh has lodged a complaint with the Advertising Standards Bureau over what she says are obscene slogans on camper vans operated by hire company Wicked. ‘I don’t think they’d be allowed on a billboard and therefore they shouldn’t be allowed on a van’ ‘These are often things that frankly...
Psychological Society calls for The Happening to be classified R18+
A few weeks back Simon Chapman, a Professor in Public Health at the University of Sydney, warned that health organisations were upping the ante to have smoking banned in films. He questioned whether movies, books, drama and entertainment should be seen as part of some ideological state apparatus for promoting health, to be appropriated at...
Australia signs onto free Net, forgets filtering plan (momentarily)
IT Ministers from around the globe converged on Seoul this week to discuss the future of big bucks on the Internet. Australia was just one of many countries to sign the Seoul Declaration for the Future of Internet Economy (PDF) and Senator Conroy was more than happy to put his name to this: WE ARE...
Controversial plastic surgery book for kids not so controversial
The Aussie Today Show wanted to get stuck into American plastic surgeon Michael Salzhauer this morning about his book My Beautiful Mommy, but the M.D left Lisa struggling for words. I get the feeling the Today Show was expecting a bedtime story for kids that advocated plastic surgery for 5 year olds, but Salzhauer’s book...
Naughty words, but a nice result?
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 that stations review their...
R18+ and video games: A history of stupidity
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 the next month or...
‘Obscene’ camper vans offend Brisbane wowser
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 suggestive artwork painted on...
Drug leaflet leaves parents choking on their own outrage
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 encouraging the kids to...
Internode and IINet slam mandatory filtering plan, will cripple broadband
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 Lindsay, Carrier Relations...
X18+ cull on the horizon?
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 Director, Donald McDonald, and Assistant...
There is no censorship worth noting in Australia: Clive Hamilton
‘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 Australia Institute’s criticism of...
