Good thinking. Since over 150 million people have died in the last 100 years from people acting on the socialist belief system - far more than any video game ever killed - perhaps we should ban all socialist publications and communications too. That would close down the universities, the ABC, the unions, and all major political parties - and reduce the risk of violations of our freedom. Anything to be safe I suppose.

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"...our retail system"
Since when did everyone else's decisions what to buy or sell become your property?

Shadow Minister can control what his children see and do. Other parents need to get off their backsides and do the same thing.

The problem is, however, most parents these days want the nanny state to do everything for them; they can’t look after their children properly, so the nanny state has to do it. The fact that 59% of Australians approve of the socialist dictator and bully Kevin Rudd shows that they don’t want to do their own thinking or control their own lives and those of their children.

There should be no censorship of any kind in a healthy, free society. Unfortunately, Australians have chosen not to have a free and healthy society opting, rather, for Big Brother Kevin who has ‘given’ them money and goodies without telling them that he will want it all back, with interest, when crunch time comes, as it always does under the boot of socialism.

I once had an East German gliding instructor who returned to that country (this is 4 decades before the Berlin Wall came down, and the Reds were still running the show) because he would be given a flat, a TV, free holidays every year and be paid for his gliding because of the competition aspect which the lands under the USSR valued at the time.

He had a good job here, a car a house, and plenty of money to indulge in his pastime; but, he couldn’t shed the nanny state mind set in which he was bribed to overlook the iron fist of the socialist dictatorship.

Australians, with Rudd’s encouragement, are getting locked into the same mind set . Sorry folks, but your life is not your own anymore; you’ve handed control of it to Comrade Rudd, and censorship and bans are only the beginning of life in the socialist state

Good post Leigh.
I'd also add that once the Filters and the Bans and the "Human Rights" and other Tribunals come in, even a Lib/Nat government won't remove them.
Did Rudd remove the ABCC? No.
Border Protection, Same old Same old.
Family? no change.
Housing? nope.
Immigration? No change.
NT Intervention? Rudd followed through on Howard's plans to extend the measures to all welfare recipients.

The "System" is Socialism or at any rate Frankfurt School Second Generation Communism coupled with a limited form of Free Market, much like China has.
Scientific Materialism is replaced by scientific Racism.
NKVD Thugs are replaced by PC Thugs and "Anti Racist" paramilitaries.
Failure heaped on failure upon failure.
Reds never change because they can't think and therefore can't learn.

"Reds never change because they can't think and therefore can't learn."

I think there's about a billion Chinese Reds who may disagree.

Looking at the world economy at the moment, perhaps they learnt a bit too well.

I am with Grayzie here. The problem the anti-18+ category campaigners have is that men vote, and a huge chunk of men like to play video games. That means there is an enormous amount of money and votes pushing to make these games available, which is what leads to games like GTA being rated MA15+.

That is the reality, and it isn't going to change. If Professor Handsley genuinely thinks games like GTA are harmful to kids, her opposition to R18+ looks to me like she is increasing those harms as rating them R18+ would clearly reduce kids exposure to them. Her actions seem to be putting kids in harms way.

It seems to me Handsley is an ivory tower idealist. Rather than pursing pragmatic solutions that have some chance of achieving some what she wants, she shoots for the moon regardless of the risk of almost certain failure.

It's a shame that Online Opinion would publish a piece that is full of vitriol, unecessary name calling and stereotyping. Maybe Shane Ogden needs to stay away from gaming for a while and practice being a decent debater.