The Classification Review is now underway, with the first committee hearing taking place last Friday. Said hearing didn’t discuss the R18+ issue directly, as a result of the upcoming SCAG meeting in July, but plenty of anti-R18+ campaigners, including Lyle Shelton of the Australian Christian Lobby, were in attendance and commented directly on broader issues of classification.
As far as politicians go, Kate Lundy is one of our favourites, a position solidified last night by her decision to table the 89,210 strong petition for an R18+ video game rating.
The Australian Christian Lobby may be a bunch of scaremongering misinformation merchants, but their idea to create a form that lets people contact the Attorney Generals directly was a good one. So as part of their READY campaign, our brothers at Kotaku have taken their idea for the pro R18+ games classification side.
