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Posted January 25, 2012
I'm curious as to how exactly this is going to get screwed up this time, last time it was an abstention IIRC.
http://www.itproportal.com/2012/01/24/australia-get-18-game-rating/#ixzz1kNfkGqVV
Posted January 25, 2012
I really hope it goes through

It must be really hard living in Australia with this and those obsurd game prices
Posted January 25, 2012
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Roman5: I really hope it goes through

It must be really hard living in Australia with this and those obsurd game prices
The people I really feel for are the folks in New Zealand that end up getting those absurd versions or none at all because their in the same region as Australia and the distributors don't feel like providing proper copies.
Posted January 25, 2012
Assuming that there are no more bumps in the road, it will still probably be AT LEAST 2 years before this could become law... ><

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/r18-amendments-will-be-put-to-parliament-in-february-the-process-could-take-a-while/
Posted January 25, 2012
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Bigs: Assuming that there are no more bumps in the road, it will still probably be AT LEAST 2 years before this could become law... ><

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/r18-amendments-will-be-put-to-parliament-in-february-the-process-could-take-a-while/
They've been close before, I think the last time they were denied a quorum by one of the regulators when they had a vote.
Posted January 25, 2012
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Bigs: Assuming that there are no more bumps in the road, it will still probably be AT LEAST 2 years before this could become law... ><

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/r18-amendments-will-be-put-to-parliament-in-february-the-process-could-take-a-while/
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hedwards: They've been close before, I think the last time they were denied a quorum by one of the regulators when they had a vote.
It's been the case for some years that the only way to get anything done with respect to censorship in Australia is to make an end run around the Classification Board. Under the existing system, the Classification Board, which consists of the Attorneys General of all the states, must agree unanimously; one nay vote or abstention kills the motion.

And this is the country that invented the word "wowser", a "wowser" being "an ineffably pious person who mistakes this world for a penitentiary and himself for a warder" (C. J. Dennis) All it takes is one wowser successfully demanding an appointment as Attorney General to turn years worth of work into roadkill.
Posted January 25, 2012
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hedwards: They've been close before, I think the last time they were denied a quorum by one of the regulators when they had a vote.
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cjrgreen: It's been the case for some years that the only way to get anything done with respect to censorship in Australia is to make an end run around the Classification Board. Under the existing system, the Classification Board, which consists of the Attorneys General of all the states, must agree unanimously; one nay vote or abstention kills the motion.

And this is the country that invented the word "wowser", a "wowser" being "an ineffably pious person who mistakes this world for a penitentiary and himself for a warder" (C. J. Dennis) All it takes is one wowser successfully demanding an appointment as Attorney General to turn years worth of work into roadkill.
Why don't they first try to get law passed to make any such motions need majority vote to pass, and then attempt to get adult game rating approved in Australia?
Posted January 25, 2012
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cjrgreen: It's been the case for some years that the only way to get anything done with respect to censorship in Australia is to make an end run around the Classification Board. Under the existing system, the Classification Board, which consists of the Attorneys General of all the states, must agree unanimously; one nay vote or abstention kills the motion.

And this is the country that invented the word "wowser", a "wowser" being "an ineffably pious person who mistakes this world for a penitentiary and himself for a warder" (C. J. Dennis) All it takes is one wowser successfully demanding an appointment as Attorney General to turn years worth of work into roadkill.
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GameRager: Why don't they first try to get law passed to make any such motions need majority vote to pass, and then attempt to get adult game rating approved in Australia?
It would be sort of like trying to pass a law telling the US Senate that they cannot require a 60 percent vote for cloture. You're trying to change the rules of a self-governing and notoriously independent body. The Classification Board has successfully opposed rules attempting to give other bodies responsibility for some of its work in the past. Trying to change their rules would probably be the only way to get them to agree unanimously on anything.
Posted January 25, 2012
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cjrgreen: It's been the case for some years that the only way to get anything done with respect to censorship in Australia is to make an end run around the Classification Board. Under the existing system, the Classification Board, which consists of the Attorneys General of all the states, must agree unanimously; one nay vote or abstention kills the motion.

And this is the country that invented the word "wowser", a "wowser" being "an ineffably pious person who mistakes this world for a penitentiary and himself for a warder" (C. J. Dennis) All it takes is one wowser successfully demanding an appointment as Attorney General to turn years worth of work into roadkill.
Maybe that was what I was thinking of.

At any rate now that I know what "wowser" means it gives Inspector Gadget an entirely new level.
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