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A Major Amendment Was Just Made To The Australian Classification Act
27Starting from today, video game classification in Australia just took a major step forward.
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The Right Side Of History: The Gamers 4 Croydon Story
Before the first R18+ game, before Gamers 4 Croydon, South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson knew his stance against adult video games in Australia could not last. His final stand took place in his own electorate of Croydon, a small suburb of Adelaide. There, a small, determined group of gamers did their level best to put…
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SA Attorney General Wants R18+ Video Game Classification To Be ‘More Rigorously Applied’
The Australian Classification Board has classified multiple video games as R18+ since the introduction of the rating in January this year. But despite this South Australian Attorney General John Rau is claiming the guidelines aren’t being applied rigorously enough, and plans to write to the Federal Government in an attempt to apply more scrutiny to…
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Australia’s New Classification System May Be Restricted To Mobile And Online Games (For Now)
On Friday we learned that the Australian Federal Government intended to implement a number of classification recommendations put forward by the ALRC. For video games, two recommendations have the potential to change the way content is classified in this country. We spoke to Josh Cavaleri, Legal and Policy Counsel for the iGEA to figure out…