Legal Niches

Ex AU Premier Does 180 on R18+

By pete_gallagher

A former Premier of the Australian state Queensland, who, in 2005 argued for a ban on the games Fable and Mark Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure, is now calling for the introduction of an R18+ videogame rating.

Peter Beattie (pictured) served as Premier of the Australian state for nine years and once claimed that the Mark Ecko game glorified 'high-risk, law-breaking, violent and even deadly behavior.' He also took issue with Fable for its reported male on female violence, saying that 'Domestic violence is a crime.'

In a post on the Australian, Beattie, now Queensland's Los Angeles-based trade and investment commissioner, noted how he was constantly peppered with questions about Australia's lack of an adult videogame rating at last month's E3 Expo. The repeated questions made Beattie 'mildly embarrassed for Australia.'
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on July 06, 2010 (boomark / email).