Australian Gamers Finally Get an R-18+ Category

Dexter Herbivore writes "A lot of Australian gamers are saying, 'finally' as legislation passed parliament to support the introduction of a R-18+ category for games. From the article: 'Jason Clare, the Minister for Home Affairs has just announced that R18+ for games is set to become a reality, after legislation successfully passing through the Federal Parliament, having just gone through the Senate without amendment.'"

premature elation

[Cyko_01]

Each state still needs to pass complementary legislation for it to become a reality since classification remains a state issue

Re:welcome to civilization

[Dexter Herbivore]

Whilst I know that you are trolling, I'd like to let most people know that Australians haven't drunk Fosters for more than 20 years. It's the horse piss that we export, similar to Coronas for Mexicans. Oh, and rugby is only big in 2 of our 7 states, the rest of Australia tends to prefer Australian Rules football. Most Australians don't know how to throw a boomerang, and we call shrimp 'prawns'. Drop Bears [australianmuseum.net.au] are real though, watch out for them.

Re:welcome to civilization

[Anonymous Coward]

when Australia was established as a penal colony, they only sent men and boys.

Mate, that's just plain wrong. 34% of convicts on the First Fleet [wikimedia.org] were female.

Re:welcome to civilization

[psiclops]

we don't [slashdot.org]

As a consumer i can't force distributors to charge less to aussie retailers, i can't force retailers to sell at a lower price. i can't force online stores to not charge higher prices for digital downloads just because i'm in australia.

my options are:
a) try and find someone online that will ship to australia with at reasonable price(incl shipping).
b) get an overseas v.p.n. possibly credit card and pretend i'm overseas to buy digital copies at a reasonable price.
c) pirate
d) give up and pay inflated prices