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From “in the Realm of the Censors” 2004…

“A lot of people want to blame John Howard for the OFLC’s decisions, but I don’t know whether things would be very different under a Labor government. There are very strong conservative forces in both major parties at the moment, as well as some vocal conservative independents, and that’s why a lot of censorship rulings don’t reflect the contemporary population’s views. To me, the solution is to get an independent organisation to do some proper community consultation and come up with a new set of guidelines that would, I would hope, be less restrictive than the current ones.”

Helen Vnuk 2004 (paraphrased)

This applies to films, VHS tapes and DVDs. There are strict penalties on the statute books of every state in Australia – including Western Australia regarding this.

At one stage someone in Western Australia indicated that they were considering withdrawing from the Federal/State system of classification and censorship and “going it alone”.

This option is open to any state in Australia given that the States and not the Commonwealth of Australia are responsible under the Constitution for matters of censorship and the Federal/State agreement by which all states agree on the classifications of the Classification Department of the the Federal Attorney General’s Department is a mere convenience.

Gamers have it tough. They are unable to openly flout the outdated legislation with regards to pornographic content – much of which falls into the hands of young people under the age of 18 in New South Wales anyway.

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Bob