Q&A (ABC1) R Rated video Games

Discussion regarding the R rating of Video Games in Australia broadcast by the ABC on 24th. July 2008

"With the Independent Senator, Nick Xenophon, the National's Senator Barnaby Joyce and Labor Senator, Mark Arbib, on Q&A this week, we only have one thing to say...welcome the Senate. Joining them are journalist and author of "Inside Kevin 07", Christine Jackman, and Chief Executive of the Australian Industry Group, Heather Ridout."

The complete program can viewed and downloaded from the ABC Q&A website

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Australia
• censorship
• games
• politics

[theBraxil]

ffs this this show is full of morons, and who got the bumbling tard to represent gamers?

[REDNECKXF]

Barnaby Joyce is a cockfag fuckwit

[KerrDogga]

i've never heard of a video game where you control rape

[sK8nERD508]

im 11 and in play m rated games

[Draxedelic]

GTA TURNED EVERYONE INTO CAR THIEVES!

EXCEPT MY KIDS!

AND EVERYONE ELSE!

[davidgahan217]

@codycas1994 "BUT THANKFULLY IT DIDN'T DO THAT." - You should listen more carefully.

[jazzx251]

If all the "pokie" addicts were safely at home spending hours on video games, then there wouldn't be a "pokie" problem.

And for the guy who's at home jerking off to raping some girl in a fantasy video game - and getting addicted to that. Well - he's in your neighbourhood doing that in the privacy of his own basement and not out on the streets.

[bonkydolox]

i think the guy in the audience was a fucking plant lol it seems set up from the start

[darknesskiler]

fuck u bitch take video games and u going see real team death match

[Timic83tc]

fuck that pokies guy for stacking his shit on the end of the r18 argument.

[thejobloshow]

This R rating was just a technicallity that was overlooked right? I don't see any hypocrisy in supporting the R18+ rating and still holding developers accountable for gratutious violence in alot of these games plus their advertising campaigns like with Dead Space 2 where an adult game was being promoted to children. I'm surprised so many politicians took the lack of an R rating as a signal to support censorship. Nanny. State.