Comments on: Australian Governance: Censorship Update

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:41:25 +0000

Re video games. Scapegoat for Hotels Association?

Feb. 4th: ‘Video generation’ under fire for hotel violence:

http://www.theage.com.au/national/video-generation-under-fire-for-hotel-violence-20100203-ndl3.html

Feb. 5th: Many ingredients make this gen Y cocktail of violence:

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/many-ingredients-make-this-gen-y-cocktail-of-violence-20100204-ng35.html

By: Alastair Tait

Alastair Tait — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:34:47 +0000

The worst thing about censorship is ######!

By: Daniel Carabellese

Daniel Carabellese — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:14:48 +0000

I really hope you’re right, Tim. I know the R18+ discussion paper should be all settled by then, so perhaps he’s waiting on the results to see which way to flip-flop.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:36:10 +0000

Atkinson was on Hack last night and he hinted at the possibility of a similar backdown on the R18+ rating for games issue. He talked about sitting down and talking it through after the election, which could mean we see an R18+ rating for games of some sort in the future.

By: Sean the Blogonaut

Sean the Blogonaut — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:44:39 +0000

Let us hope that the upcoming federal election i close enough that we will see a turnaround from Federal Labor on censorship.

What was shocking to learn was that the SA law was passed unanimously by all parties and MP’s.

By: Daniel Carabellese

Daniel Carabellese — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:38:23 +0000

Oh yes, I’ve been following that pretty closely; he made the front page of the paper two days in a row.

I suspect his backing down has something to do with the upcoming election, since he’s refused to back down on every other issue despite massive public outcry on some of those.

By: Bastard Sheep

Bastard Sheep — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:25:33 +0000

The real name/postcode thing was repealed. He actually backed down believe it or not.

More here — http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Michael-Atkinson-MP/281431773526?ref=nf