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AUSTRALIA WITHOUT AN R18+ RATING FOR GAMES

By Chris Bennett, Tudor Carsten, Michael R. Coburn, Sarah Dale-Harris, Pablo Guzman, Danielle (Dani) Lemon, Chris Metcalfe and David Spratley

Australia is the only developed country without an R18+ rating for games.

The Australian public's opinion was polled about the introduction of an R18+ rating for games and a subsequent report was prepared, however, the South-Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson refused to make it public, consequently rendering it null. Atkinson has long been opposed to any type of R18+ rating.

Rob Hulls, the Victorian Attorney General believes that an R18+ rating is needed for video games. He marks the inconsistency between restricting certain films with mature content by rating them R18+ but not attributing the same rating to computer games with the same level of mature content.

Some supporters of the R18+ rating amongst the Australian government do not understand why Australia has not yet adopted the rating and call upon the Senate and Parliament to address the issue.

Coverage at: GameDaily.com

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Full post as published by Video Game Law Blog on November 03, 2008 (boomark / email).