EveryonePlays: Petitions Presented to Federal Home Affairs Minister – Part 5

PALGN Feature | Tony Abbott: current classification system is “broken”.

Hi All,

At a recent debate, an event organized by the Australian Christian Lobby, the Liberal leader, Tony Abbott, expressed dismay over the current dysfunctional classification scheme, as reported by Kotaku.

Alas, various incumbent State Attorneys-General would like to get “more research and public consultation” before making a decision on the matter, one way or another. Even after presenting your petitions to Brendan O’Connor, it has become clear that we must keep this debate alive.

Please stay tuned…

Best,

Roland

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8 Comments

JP2daMC

1 year ago

In some ways, it's too many petitions and gamer submissions that have led to this situation.

The AGs are now saying they have too many opinions from the gaming community, and not enough from the wider community in general. Whatever that means.

So if anything, you need to back off and let the AGs get opinions now from other interest groups.

Pushing too hard now will not be beneficial.

Karai Pantsu

1 year ago

Abbott made a sweeping statement about the classification of all media, geared to appeal to the noisy crowd of folk who've been active about it (which is to say, the people campaigning for change).

In the lead up to an election, especially this one where pretty much everyone is currently known for percieved faults rather than qualities, this shouldn't come as a surprise.

All there is to take out of this is that Tony Abbott isn't entirely clueless when it comes to politics.

pom013

1 year ago

I've definatly got a grain of salt to go with that statement but its good to see that the issue on the table at least.

Cyph

1 year ago

Ohh, imagine if Abbott does support an R rating on games? I can imagine that would cause some voting issues with some of our fellow PALGN members

sobriquet835

1 year ago

Can't imagine Abbott supporting the change, whether he says he does or not. Too conservative. It'll be a backflip afterwards if he says he supports it, unless the Christian Lobby have no objection to the change, which they will. I think if anything, he'll make it tighter (or atleast push for the laws to be made tighter), potentially leading to those games released as MA that should be rated R possibly being banned.

Shorty

1 year ago

If Abbot's saying it, bet dollars to donuts that his "fix" will make the system more restrictive.

JP2daMC wrote

I think it's the obvious double standard. The Australian government's quite happy to listen to the ACL whenever they have a complaint (which seems to be all the time), but as soon as gamers speak up about an issue that directly affects them, suddenly they want to hear from the "wider community"?

Fly

1 year ago

Shorty wrote

It's rather hilarious isn't it, gamers as a collective can be as far reaching to include a 13 year old who's mother gave her a mobile she religiously plays snake on to pass the time as much as it could a guy who spend 24 hour in a basement filled with several TV's, arcade machines, PC's and the AG's ask for "wider communities".

Which effectively boils down to community groups which focus on a single demographic from that community.

Labels. Harumph.