Australia Approves Final R18+ Gaming Guidelines

dotarray writes "Despite stories suggesting that a change to the Australian ratings system may be as far as two years away, the Federal Minister for Home Affairs has announced that each Australian state and territory has signed off on the final guidelines required for the introduction of an adult R18+ classification Down Under."

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Its been a long time coming

[Wolfling1]

As one of the first people to start a statewide petition to support an R18+ rating for games, I can say that its taken a long time to reach this point, and its not over yet. This is a really encouraging step in the right direction.

What is particularly interesting about it is that it highlights the disparaity between the speed that technology moves, and the speed that our lawmakers move.

I believe we may be an entire generation away from a government of technology-savvy lawmakers.

Re:What guidelines?

[Zaphod The 42nd]

If it wasn't illegal to buy snuff films, they'd be widely purchased and a market created for such

Actually, I just read an article, I think it was by BBC, that said that after doing much research, their conclusion was there is no such thing as a snuff film, nobody has actually made a snuff film, and there is no market for snuff films. Its just too difficult / costly to murder people for entertainment as opposed to doing fiction.

SOMETIMES the world isn't as bad as it seems. :P