Last week, the fledgling political party* Gamers4Croydon launched, with the sole intention of contesting the seat of Croydon (Michael Atkinson’s electorate) at the next state election in South Australia.

As part of their launch, the group set up the “one-click (almost) email your Attorney General”, which provided a pre-written letter to the relevant Attorney General. All that was required of the user was to fill in the relevant personal details.

The site has posted a handful of stock responses from various Attorneys General (not Atkinson, to date).

Mr Barry Collier (Member for Miranda, NSW Legislative Assembly, Australian Labor Party) writes:

It is my understanding that the paper will contain detailed descriptions of the content of various computer games which have been Refused Classification. In order to ensure informed submissions on the issue it is important that people are aware of the kinds of material which may become lawfully available for sale in Australia if an R18+ category were to be introduced for computer games.

Along with the constant hand-balling between state and federal levels, it would appear at this stage that if and when the discussion paper is released, Mr Atkinson will get his wish of a discussion paper full of misinformation, straw-men and very little relevant to the actual issue.

* Gamers4Croydon is not currently recognised as a political party by the State Electoral Commission of South Australia, although official registration and clarification are currently being sought.

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3 Comments on Gamers4Croydon launches, AG inboxes flooded

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   Aaron says:

   Growupaustralia.com also had a Write your Attorney-General an email day! on the 9th. They had alot of people sign up to the event on facebook.

   I got the exact letter that David doe recieved in response to an email I sent a couple of months ago.

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   Skit says:

   When will they realise it’s not about allowing the dodgey games into the country. It’s about preventing adult material being squeezed into the MA15+ category (modified or not).

   RB

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   Glenn says:

   An R18+ rating would have been introduced a long time ago if the system to decide whether there should be one was a “majority rule”. Ratkinson could have saved us the trouble by agreeing to an R18+ rating instead of throwing down the gauntlet.