WA Greens oppose R18+ game rating, so which party supports it?
UPDATE 01/09/08: The WA greens have confirmed this policy. The WA Greens party will oppose the introduction of an R18+ classification for games if elected in the upcoming Western Australian election. According to WAvotes.org.au, a website run by the Australian Christian Lobby where parties respond to questions likely to be raised by Christian voters, the...
Game Developers’ Association attacks censorship
Tom Crago, president of the Game Developers’ Association of Australia, doesn’t touch on much we haven’t heard before in his essay on the lack of an R18+ games rating, but he does set a fine example of industry going after the censors. When you combine take-no-shit leaders like Crago with the tribal characteristics of gamers...
Michael Atkinson responds: R18+ games, bad parents and protecting children
South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson is what most people consider a dickhead (and that’s by folks who vote for him). Gamers and anyone opposed to censorship aren’t so kind. They know he’s been blocking an R18+ classification for video games for years. Why? Atkinson swears blue children will be harmed by the introduction of an...
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...
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...
Adult Shop loses R18+ appeal
Some adults are offended by seeing other adults have sex (creating offspring must be such a dreadful task…). But are those same people representative of broad community values and standards? The Federal Court says yes. Adult Shop has lost a legal battle to have an X18+ rating overturned for the adult film Viva Erotica. The...
