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Public Opinion on R18+ Results Released, Ministers Yet to Make a Decision

News from Luke - Friday, 07 May 2010 @ 7:25pm

Public Opinion on R18+ Results Released, Ministers Yet to Make a Decision

Today a status report was released with the information collected from the public consultation on the possible introduction of R18+ classification within Australia.

Over the 2 month period 60,000 submissions flooded the Attorney-Generals Department with 98.2% of people supporting an R18+ for video games in Australia.

The majority of submissions received in a non-template hardcopy were from the games retailer EB Games (34,938 total: 4202 of these included individual comments while 30,736 provided no additional comments). This was followed by submissions that followed the template collated by the organisation Grow Up Australia (16,056), with many of these providing additional comments.
The remaining submissions were sent directly to the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department. The majority were received via email (7347), followed by post (745) and fax (592). Many of these also contained individual comments. The Department received 33 submissions from community, church and industry groups.


The majority of respondents were in the age category 18-24 years (10,104), followed by 25‑34 years (7959), under 18 years (2629) and 35-44 years (2208).

Today the Attorneys General gathered to discuss a number of topics at the SCAG meeting, one of them being the R18+ situation. This afternoon Federal Home Affairs Minister Brendan O'Connor confirmed that no decisions were made over the issue.

Censorship Ministers have not yet made a decision on whether or not an R18+ classification for computer games should be introduced and have requested further analysis of community and expert views. It is not just the weight of numbers that need to be considered. It is also the strength of the arguments on each side.

The next SCAG meeting will most likely be around September, i think it's safe to say that we wont be getting an R18+ this year. If you want to have a bit of a read, the full 23 page document can be viewed from the Attorney-General's Department website



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