Ban on Fetish Sex Depictions in Film Should End, Australia Government Report Recommends
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Australia should remove its strict censorship of legal sex fetishes and some acts of violence in film, a government-commissioned report has recommended.
The country has a national system of films and games classification that has been little changed since 1995 – the pre-internet, smartphone and streaming era – as well as differing systems in each of the country’s states.
The federal government this week released a report compiled by Neville Stevens in 2020, but not published for more than two years.
Federal communications minister Michelle Rowland said this week that the government would recommend to the states that video games with simulated gambling should attract at least R18+ and that certain types of video games should attract an M classification. (Australia has a problem of gambling addiction, especially related to poker machines or “pokies”.) She has not commented on the report’s other recommendations.
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