Brendan O’Connor Invites EveryonePlays to Canberra

[Anthony]

EveryonePlays: Brendan O’Connor Invites EveryonePlays to Canberra by Anthony

PALGN Feature: Campaign for an R18+ PC and Video Game classification gains momentum.

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[NMANOZ]

Lets hope it finally happens before the next gen consoles are out.

[Benza]

[Balguren]

Nothing is going to happen in March liek they agreed which is very predicatable have a read this is from gamespot au. http://au.gamespot.com/news/6299099.html?tag=latestheadlines%3Btitle%3B1

Looks like NSW is the one delaying it this time.... This is getting very old and unless they do fix this sales of video games in AUS will drop even further due to importing and piracy...Guess money dont mean everything to them as they are losing enough of it.

[Balguren]

oops Like wasnt paying attention to keyboard a sec there lol not liek lol

[light487]

They are obviously getting kickbacks from somewhere.. when all reason is lost, it's generally money that is oiling the wheel... there's just no good reason to not have the rating, ergo.. kickbacks.

Yes.. it's a very basic and minimalistic way of putting it.. but I am tired of the arguement and everyone knows what is really going on... as to which lobbyist groups are involved, well.. that's open to speculation.. but just think which lobbyist groups have the most wealth and power.. doesn't take long to work it out for yourself.
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[drinniol]

Right. Because a politician doesn't agree with you he's obviously corrupt. Asshat. You're part of the problem.

When people who are worried about the impact of violence get death threats from gamers, is that not a good reason to wait for further investigation?

[Fetidchimp]

not particularly no....how many more investigations do they need.

did we all send death threats to them, i would think that we all would have if games had an impact on our severely demented minds.

How many responsible, thought out submissions did they get that weren't death threats.....what 60 000 real submissions are cancelled out by one or two people sending death threats?
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kill, kill, kill.....the white man. Kill the white man, kill

[Benza]

[JP2daMC]

[evil_kenshin]

the reason they don't want to bring it in is due to they know the australian christian lobby will be bombarding them with noisy phone messages to complain; the ACL is a very noisy minority with to much power (some catholic bishops group was in support of the R18+ they got bombarded with phone calls from the ACL)
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[Benza]

[Esposch]

Wouldn't it be better to scrap mandatory OFLC ratings altogether? In this age of downloadable indie games, it can make it entirely unprofitable to release games down here. Shantae not coming out here is a bigger loss than L4D2 being censored.
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[Karai Pantsu]

Wow, people getting butthurt over someone suggesting a politician is corrupt? We officially have too much time on our hands, here...
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[JP2daMC]

Butthurt....okay if you say so.

Politicians are a lot of things, but accusations of corruption are pretty serious. In fact, it's the worst thing you could accuse them - or anyone - of. It's also the easiest. You don't agree with me, you must be corrupt. Some people also seem to forget that many parts of Australia are conservative so some of those AGs are representing their states.

As fun as conspiracy theories are, this is Australia. In most cases corruption is found out pretty quickly in politicians (some people will find it hard to believe, but they are monitored heavily) and pollies are sacked regularly for trivial things like slightly misusing their travel allowance (and who hasn't done that in their job at some stage?). It's generally not as blatant as "Christian group give me money, I not vote for R rating".

Political parties do get funding from certain Christian groups, but generally that funding goes more towards Liberal and conservative parties rather than Labor. However, even Labor Govts are blocking the R rating. Normally one party would be saying "You don't want an R rating? You must hate Australia!". But they aren't.

That alone should open our eyes to the fact that this is an issue that is beyond normal political party lines and "corruption".

Espoche - I think one of the ideas the AGs are looking at is for industry regulation as happens overseas. I think that's the reasons the delays have been so long (other than state elections and changing AGs) is that the AGs really are looking at all options including a complete overhaul of the ratings system and industry regulation and wanting more time to investigate the issue.

Hyper had a pretty good article about it which was rather mature on the issue.
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[Karai Pantsu]

I do say so - you had a go at the guy over the comment...
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[Roland]

We hit a big milestone... Brendan O'Connor is on our side. The PALGN community can claim a victory! We push on...
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[light487]

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