R18+ Rating For Games Rally in Brisbane on 5 December

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UPDATE: I just got an update about YET ANOTHER ONE refused classification: Aliens vs Predator has just been refused classification.

For full details and registration of interest, visit Facebook Page HERE.

For more information and OXCGN’s views check out the following articles which have been published over the last several months on the issue.

If YOU want games to be passed here in Australia that all other countries get, have the games rated in accordance with similar age rating levels overseas, and have more mature games clearly marked in an adult-only rating so parents have no excuse not to be more aware, then this issue IS something that ALL Australian gamers need to get behind.

Or, are you going to leave it to someone else to do, because you “don’t have the time”? If that is the case, then you have no right to complain when further draconian censorship is imposed here in Australia; you will have no one else to blame other than yourself.

• Doing nothing achieves – “nothing”.

• Doing something opens the door to “possibilities” that were not there before.

• Brisbane gamers and parents this is your chance to make a difference!

• Modified Left4Dead 2 Passes Classification In Australia: Click Here
• Australia has left Left 4 Dead 2 for dead: It’s banned: Click Here
• Why Has Risen Fallen?  The R18 Debate Revived In Australia: Click Here
• R18+ Debate: Let The Bureaucracy Begin! Click Here
• Game Censorship: One Versus 91%: The Aussie Game Rating Farce: Click Here
• Fallout 3 Reclassified MA15 + in Australia: Huzzah! Click Here
• Fallout 3 Falls foul of the OLFC as well as TV Opinion Panel- our thoughts: Click Here
• R18+ Ratings in Australia- Up to Australians! Click Here

You can visit other Australian gaming sites, such as AllAgeGaming, to get their view on the matter, and help support their efforts as well as ours.

We all have one common interest, gaming, and to be able to do that and enjoy it to the level many gamers overseas believe to be ‘normal’ then Australian gamers need to lift their rear ends off the couches, use their digits for more productive results.

You can do this by attending these events wherever possible, and if not able to due to distance, work or other commitments, then putting ‘pen-to-paper’ (yes real writing, as Polies pay more attention to the written word that typeface) and let your local, state and federal member know your thoughts on the mater. In an adult manner naturally.

Other sites to visit in support of the issue:

Australia needs an R18+ Classification on Games!

Grow up Australia – R18+ for Video Games

The official Facebook group for Gamers4Croydon”

Do Australian Families Need an R18+ Rating Poll