Gamers4Croydon launches, AG inboxes flooded

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

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.