It's a Thumbs Up for R18+ from new SA Attorney General

Unpopular SA Attorney General Michael Atkinson has resigned from his role in the wake of voter backlash in his seat of Croydon in this weekend's state election.

A few years back, when Michael Atkinson was Attorney-General of South Australia, it would have been unheard of to write the heading above.  But now that John Rau is AG in that state it seems sensible discussion about Australia’s video-game rating system can be had.

Gamers4Croydon has hailed the decision by SA Attorney-General Michael Atkinson to quit as 'fantastic', as the party nervously waits to find out its own results in the election.

There is at least one other attorney-general standing in the way of an R18+ rating for games -- we just don't know who they are.

John Rau, the new Attorney General of South Australia, has reportedly said to Gamers4Croydon’s Chris Prior that he is a supporter of the R18+ classification for games, the Gamers4Australia wait for that rating to be ratified.

Gamers of Australia are hoping that South Australia’s new Attorney General, John Rau, will live up to Gamers4Croydon’s Chris Prior tweet that he’s a nice guy, is a supporter of the R18+ classification for games and that R18+ is on his to do list.

This 21 year-old PlayStation3 gamer is taking on the ultraconservative South Australian Attorney-General in his own electorate. We talked to Gamers4Croydon Candidate Kat Nicholson.

The Attorney General, Robert McLelland, has denied the government's controversial ISP logging policy will extend to users' web history.

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