Steve Fielding (Victoria, Family First Party) Share this | Hansard source

I move Family First amendment (1) on sheet 5507:

(1)    Schedule 1, item 9, page 6 (line 29), at the end of subsection 31(4), add:

“and in so doing, the scheme must:

             (a)    limit any advertising of an unclassified film or an unclassified computer game to the title and description of that film or game; and

             (b)    not include excerpts of the sound or vision from that unclassified film or unclassified computer game until that film or game has been classified”.

This amendment inserts a restriction that limits any advertising of an unclassified film or computer game to only the title and description of that film or game. This is a practical step. How can you show clips from and promote a film that has not been classified? If people are already watching a PG film in a theatre somewhere and all of a sudden you are promoting an unclassified film, I think that can expose people to films that probably are inappropriate for that age group. So the amendment that Family First are moving addresses the issue of promoting films to people who probably would not want those films promoted to them. It limits the advertising of an unclassified film or computer game to the title and description of that film or game.