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"MixedUpConfusion" <wholive@leeds.com> wrote in message
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> Clayton Forno <cjfat@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
> news:3acc2179$0$25508$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au...
> > Last week laws where passed in Australia giving religious groups
increased
> > powers to pressure for censorship....and today...
> >
> > In the Australian state of Victoria laws were passed preventing the
> showing
> > of R rated movies (such as "Hannibal" and the re-release of "The
> Exorcist")
> > on Good Friday, because "the Christian religion must be respected"!
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> While not wishing to detract from the central point that this decision was
> appalling stupid, I would like to add several points which should be made
to
> add some perspective.
>
> No "laws" were "passed".  The directive came from an unnamed bureaucrat in
> the Attorney-General's Department, apparently acting without the knowledge
> or approval of the government. (The Attorney-General himself is in
hospital
> recovering from a rare form of hepatitis)
>
> The directive applied only to "The Exorcist".  Other R-rated movies were
> unaffected (although none are actually scheduled for screening on Good
> Friday).
>
> The government, caught flat-footed by an announcement it had not expected,
> initially indicated that it had no choice but to support the ban on the
> grounds that it is consistent with the relevant Act of Parliament, which
> dates from approximately 1958.  The premier has since flagged moves to
scrap
> the law, and the acting Attorney-General has now announced that the ban
has
> been reversed.
>
> Pity, really.  It's much more fun to get outraged, isn't it?
>

Where did you get all that?  Every TV news item and net peice I have
seen....up to half an hour ago... have said the ban was still in place.  You
must have a good news source....what is it?

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