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| EveryonePlays: R18+ petition breaks Australian records by James |  | | PALGN News: More than 89,000 signatures recorded. | | [View Article] |
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| Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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Wow, I'm amazed at the number of sigs on that. Hopefully something comes of it now.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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Nice. Now let's hope it hasn't been done in vain.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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If its Australias largest petition then SOMETHING has to come out of it.. one would hope.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah I probably agree. The written submissions carry much more weight. Plus they're official.
And yes, this is already on the AG's agenda so the effort to get it on the AG's table is a bit redundant. The written submissions have their attention.
Hell, I signed the GAME survey twice and wrote only one submission. In fact, only one submission gets counted, but you could potentially sign the petition a dozen times and make up names.
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It should also be noted that all these signatories are over 18. I asked if I was able to sign it, and was told no.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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| heatseeker wrote: | | It should also be noted that all these signatories are over 18. I asked if I was able to sign it, and was told no. |
Me and a couple of friends, all under 18, were able to sign it at Supanova. We asked if we could sign if we were under 18 and the guy said yes.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 12:13 am Post subject: |
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Anyway, it's still a significant achievement for a paper-based survey (although I'm not sure the comparisons to it being inferior to an online survey holds much merit).
The point remains that the AGs have been talking about the R rating being on the agenda for this meeting for some time, so perhaps PALGN needs to refocus its efforts for the meeting after that to keep the ball rolling.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 1:41 am Post subject: |
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Egh you shouldn't have signed it twice. And even moreso you shouldn't have spoken about doing so
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| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 9:04 am Post subject: |
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Well, to tell the truth, the second one I signed on behalf of my brother with his consent. But it's still not technically the right thing to do and illustrates how open to abuse it is.
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James
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| Mullet87 wrote: | | You know the 60,000 public submissions they received to their discussion paper? Carries a fair bit more weight than 90,000 signatures I think.. |
My understanding is that the 46,000 our of the 55,000 "public submissions" are just signatures from the EB/Grow Up campaign. http://www.itwire.com/it-policy-news/regulation/37364-govt-receives-55000-r18-game-rating-submissions
I'm still not convinced that the issue is on the agenda for SCAG. The Age was reporting its confirmed, but whenever we've spoken to them they haven't confirmed it. Either way putting public pressure on them to address the issue properly is important. Making sure there's a press spotlight on the issue will ensure that it is addressed.
I'm pretty damn impressed that we managed to break Australian records with this campaign. Resolving this issue is certainly long overdue.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 11:50 am Post subject: |
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its listed as a current issue on the scag website
http://www.scag.gov.au/lawlink/SCAG/ll_scag.nsf/pages/scag_censorship
haha scag
wow just reading their past decisions on censorship, they had this discussion paper on the cards since at least march 2008, 2 years to actually do it....
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Ministers agreed to further consider the content of a Discussion Paper on whether an R18+ classification for computer games should be introduced into the National Classification Scheme.
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that appears or words to those effect are in every document on censorship
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| djrussell wrote: | | If its Australias largest petition then SOMETHING has to come out of it.. one would hope. |
Don't count on it. Petitions didn't stop Workchoices :\
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There was an article about this in the paper on Thursday or Friday (Courier Mail)
I took a photo of it but it's difficult to read. Didn't mention anything about EveryonePlays though, it was all about GAME and a little interview they did with the CEO.
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That should just about be the final nail in the coffin, how much further does this thing have to go?
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