New political party seeks to dethrone Atkinson

New political party seeks to dethrone Atkinson

New political party seeks to dethrone Atkinson

http://games.on.net/article/7277/New_political_party_seeks_to_dethrone_Atkinson


A new political party has been formed with a single issue, and a single purpose: to run a candidate against Michael Atkinson in next year's South Australia state election.

Gamers4Croydon founder David Doe sees this as the only way to give Australian gamers a ratings system in line with rest of the civilised world.


Fight the power!"The entire purpose of this site is to have the R18+ classification rating added to the ratings currently allowed for videogames in Australia. There a number of ways to do this, but the most straightforward is to place political pressure on the South Australian Attorney General, Michael Atkinson, as he is currently the only Attorney General voting 'no' on the issue of an R18+ rating for videogames. This is despite overwhelming evidence that the average age of gamers in Australia is 29 and above, and despite evidence that a majority of Australians support an R18+ rating for videogames."

If you wish to learn more, volunteer your support, or help Gamers4Croydon financially, then head on over to the official site.

Defeating Atkinson won't be easy -- in the last election, the obstructionist Attorney General got 76% of the vote, after preferences, a margin Doe admits could be hard to overcome.

"We are going to have an uphill battle here folks."

 

hmmm... pie in the sky dreams me thinks however I can't question the motives

 

My little rant.

We can hope and show our support wherever possible. It could be just me, but with left 4 dead 2 getting censored here after the original got through without issue, I think more people have noticed the problem. The most irritating thing about it all is the inconsistency of these policies.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate that the OFLC bend the rules, and lets face it, that must be what they're doing (when a game like COD World at War gets passed without issue, someone has to be looking out for us), but if it's law then it should be followed to the letter or else it makes them seem like a joke, and in turn makes us feel like we're being porked in the bum for no good reason.

In my opinion, it's this inconsistency makes the whole debacle harder to swallow. It seems there just isn't a valid reason these titles are being censored. It's simply because Atkinson has the power to do it and he will enforce it when he feels like it, just because he doesn't like videogames, full stop. I'm sure if he had his way he'd ban them altogether!

Anyway, like I said: we can hope and show our support where possible.