Community Standards Relevant to the Supply of Services Utilising Electronic Technologies / Senate Committees

Scope

The committee considered community standards of taste and decency in classifications for services using electronic technologies including video games and computer programs. The government's response to one of the committee's most significant recommendations was that video and computer games have an upper classification limit of MA, thereby eliminating the R and X classifications.

Chairs

Margaret Reynolds

qldALP 13 May 1993 – 29 Apr 1996

John William Tierney

nswLIB 30 May 1996 – 26 Jun 1997

Sequence

Community Standards Relevant to the Supply of Services Utilising Telecommunications Technologies

Community Standards Relevant to the Supply of Services Utilising Electronic Technologies

Information Technologies

1993

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100

1997

Reports

Date tabled	Title	Read report
26 Jun 1997	Regulation of Computer On-line Services: Part 3 (Erratum tabled 25 August 1997) Parliamentary paper number 115/1997
13 Feb 1997	Portrayal of Violence in the Electronic Media Parliamentary paper number 9/1997
17 Oct 1996	R-Rated Material on Pay TV: Part 2 and Review of the Guidelines for the Classification of Film and Videotapes Parliamentary paper number 141/1996
21 Aug 1996	Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Regulations: Statutory Rules 1995 No. 401 Parliamentary paper number 99/1996
30 Nov 1995	Regulation of Computer On-Line Services: Part 2 (Interim Government response tabled 25 June 1997) Parliamentary paper number 464/1995
26 Oct 1995	Operations of Codes of Practice in the Television Industry: Part 1 Parliamentary paper number 463/1995
18 Sep 1995	Regulation of Computer On-line Services: Part 1 Parliamentary paper number 170/1995
28 Jun 1995	R-Rated Material on Pay TV; Regulation of Bulletin Board Systems; Codes of Practice in the Television Industry (Corrigendum tabled 24 August 1995) Parliamentary paper number 153/1995
9 Feb 1995	R-Rated Material on Pay TV: Part 1 Parliamentary paper number 9/1995
6 Dec 1994	Status Report on the Committee's Inquiries
29 Nov 1994	Consideration of the Provisions of the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Bill 1994 Parliamentary paper number 474/1994
29 Jun 1994	Overseas Sourced Audiotex Services, Video and Computer Games, R-Rated Material on Pay TV Parliamentary paper number 131/1994
7 Dec 1993	0055 Reverse Phone Directory Service Parliamentary paper number 271/1993
28 Oct 1993	Video and Computer Games and Classification Issues Parliamentary paper number 196/1993
27 May 1993	Community Standards Relevant to the Supply of Services Utilising Electronic Technologies Report