John Rau

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• Australian Classification Review Board to re-appraise age ratings of 12 games

  The Australian Classification Review Board has opted to re-appraise the age ratings of 12 titles, following concerns flagged up by South Australian attorney general John Rau. He reckons the board hasn’t been strict enough when classifying such games as The Walking Dead and Splinter Cell: Blacklist.

• South Australian Attorney General feels some mature games are falling through the R18+ cracks

  South Australia Attorney General John Rau feels the R18+ rating isn’t being applied properly, and needs to be investigated further by the Federal Governmenr.

• R18+ Australian games classification now in effect

  Although there aren’t yet any games to take advantage of it, Australia’s brand new R18+ ratings category for games came into effect with the New Year.

• R18+ legislation passed in South Australia

  South Australia passed new laws allowing for the sale of R18+ classified games in a parliamentary session this week.

• R18+ sticker scheme no longer on the cards in South Australia

  South Australian state attorney-general John Rau has decided against implementing a plan to re-sticker all MA15+ games as R18+.

• South Australia to pursue Rau's MA15+ rebadging scheme

  South Australia will move ahead with attorney general John Rau’s plan to rebadge all games rated MA15+ as R18+, enforcing their sale only to legal adults, despite progress in a national campaign for classification reform.

• South Australia to sticker-over MA15+ games

  South Australian attorney-general John Rau has explained how he intends to wipe out the MA15+ ratings category for games in his home state: stickers.

• Rau: South Australia to replace MA15+ ratings with R18+

  Attorney-General John Rau has communicated that South Australia will drop the current MA15+ ratings category for video games in favour of R18+, regardless of national overhauls to the classifications system.

• MA15+ games to be reclassified as R18+ in South Australia

  South Australian attorney general John Rau intends to introduce a revised games ratings system for his home state, and asked for nation-wide acceptance. Hooray? Not quite. It won’t help you get your hands on the likes of Mortal Kombat and an uncensored Left 4 Dead 2 – but it will stop under-eighteens buying Grand Theft […]

• Dead Rising 2 to launch in Australia uncut

  Australia’s ratings board, the OFLC, has classified Dead Rising 2 for a release in the country with an MA15 rating. Best news? It’s releasing in the country uncut and unedited: Aussies get a break at last.