Comments on: Atkinson Reaches New Low, Freezes R18+ Discussion Paper

By: Zeph101

Zeph101 — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:36:57 +0000

I was afraid of something like this happening from him.

Ever since I saw him in a recent news report about SA banning those marijuana growing lights, I knew there was something wrong about him when he refered to the consequences of someone being caught with one of these light as 'you're nicked'. This affirms that Atkinson is a true believer in totalirianism, and takes a pretty simplistic approach to the issues. 'If you ban the means, it dosen't exist'.
Atkinson needs to be pushed into the media and questioned on not only this but a lot of other issues he supports too.

By: Dougmore

Dougmore — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:20:59 +0000

I think that this is is a bit ridiculous, Atkinson is just behind the times. It was my thinking that as Australian adults we have the right not to be censored, if he agrees with the principle of non-censorship then why is he doing this. I think that the SCAG should have qualified majority rather than unanimous voting to pass things like this.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:06:16 +0000

Heres a suggestion, why not agree to a one year trial period? We make R rated games legal for one whole year and after 365 days there is physical proof that R rated games pose a serious threat to Australia then they get banned again

By: lars

lars — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:24:12 +0000

Telstra monopoly, Great Firewall, now this? Looks like we’re gonna start calling each other ‘comrades’ instead of mates soon enough. Hu Jintao’s grin must be reaching his ears while he toasts a glass of journalist blood with Kevin Rudd

By: crotchdot

crotchdot — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:41:18 +0000

In the photo with the s**t-eating grin and the awful suspenders they showed in The Age, is that bible scripture written on his suspenders? Seriously?

By: Brendan

Brendan — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:14:24 +0000

How is it that one man can stop the progress of an entire country, even in the face of irrefutable evidence? Isn’t majority rules how the rest of this country is run? Why do attorney generals have this kind of power!?

By: Cam

Cam — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:53:20 +0000

@fdr
"Rod, I don't think having separate classification laws for each state would work. What's then stopping people from buying things interstate. The government isn't going to go for something like that, it's too hard to police."

Well they've already done this with Underbelly, when it was released on DVD they couldn't sell it in Victoria, and couldn't sell it online.

That kind of worked (ya right!), but no reason they couldn't do it again.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:38:56 +0000

I've emailed my state senators and members to draw their attention to this guy and to vote to support the creation of a new R18+ rating. I encourage you to do the same.

You can find your local member here: http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/mi-elctr.asp
You can find your state senators here: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/senators/homepages/index.asp?sort=state

While you're at it, voice your opposition to the planned internet censoring/filtering and encourage your local members and senators to do the same

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:01:46 +0000

I think this guy would have absolutely no problem with becoming Australia’s first dictator/emperor/high chancellor. Why, that way the entire country would be forced to comply with his “this is what’s best for the people, they don’t know what they need” policies. Games would be banned altogether and all children would be put into government care as soon as they’re born, since it’s clear he believes parents are morons that can’t take care of their own children.

By: Attila

Attila — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:53:43 +0000

This is kind of on topic because our lack of an R rating meant Fallout 3 was modified throughout the world – but the Fallout 3 street date has been broken basically everywhere – go and get it people!