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Christians urge delay on R18+ games

10:27pm Thursday, 21st July 2011  

As the State ministers meet to decide on whether Australia should loosen the standards for computer games by introducing a R18+ category, the ACT Attorney-General has threatened to go it alone.

The Australian Christian Lobby has urged classification ministers meeting in Adelaide tomorrow to delay a decision on allowing more violent and sexually explicit games onto the Australian market until after the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has completed its inquiry into the classification system.

The current system bans games that are too explicit or violent for an MA rating.

“With the first comprehensive review of the National Classification Scheme in 20 years already well underway, it is appropriate that ministers wait until after the independent ALRC review process had run its course,” said ACL’s spokesman Rob Ward.
 
“There is widespread public concern that the existing classification scheme is broken. Ministers should not feel pressured to pre-empt the genuine opportunity for comprehensive reform across all media platforms that the ALRC’s review offers, and should not take a piecemeal approach at tomorrow’s SCAG meeting.”
 
ACL was concerned that a Commonwealth proposal to apply the same guidelines for R18+ films to computer games would be a backward step not in the best interests of children.
 
“These guidelines have given us films with extreme violence, actual sex and simulated paedophilia. This is clearly content that no parent would want to see in an interactive computer game platform,” Mr Ward said.