
Following the illustrious example set by Sweden, Australia’s game censorship board has revoked the rating of Dead or Alive Dimensions, effectively banning it, accusing the game of containing “content not drawn to the board’s attention.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Aug 28, 2010 00:49 JST
- Tags: Australia, Copyright, Courts, Crime, Hacking, Litigation, PS3, Sony, Technology

Sony has sued the hackers behind a device which is said to allow piracy on the PS3 – sales of the device have been banned whilst the court action proceeds.
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The mysterious appearance of a “Shin Megami Tensei: Persona” entry in an official Australian classification database, with the platform specified as PS3, has caused a great deal of consternation amongst Persona fans hoping for a belated Persona PS3 debut.
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The Australian government now recognises that humans come in three sexes, not two as in lesser nations.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Mar 15, 2010 07:45 JST
- Tags: Australia, Crime, Food, Marketing, Mass Media, Piracy, Politics, Terrorism, Whaling

Australia’s crackpot left has once again thrown its lot in with eco-terrorist group Sea Shepherd, demanding Japan release operative Peter Bethune, arrested for illegally boarding a whaling vessel on the high seas, supposedly in an effort to capture it.
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Japanese are aghast at Australian plans to kill millions of stray cats, with many perplexed at how a nation which sanctimoniously lectures them at every opportunity about their whaling and tacitly supports eco-terrorism can simultaneously destroy millions of lovable felines.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Feb 10, 2010 00:46 JST
- Tags: Australia, Crime, Fish, Food, Marketing, Mass Media, Piracy, Terrorism, Whaling

Eco-terrorist group Sea Shepherd has announced it intends to attack boats fishing for Northern Bluefin Tuna, a species for which most demand comes from Japan.
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Australia has reportedly banned mainstream pornography from showing women with A-cup breasts, apparently on the grounds that they encourage paedophilia, and in spite of the fact this is a normal breast size for many adult women.
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A couple who daringly had sex in plain view of hundreds of shoppers atop a clock tower are currently being sought.
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A sex slave who was imported into Australia on the condition that she pay her way by having sex with 650 men has been jailed for herself owning a sex slave, whom she in turn forced to service 650 men.
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China claims not to interfere with the internal affairs of other countries, but many are now alarmed by its efforts to enforce its own brand of totalitarian censorship on other countries, with several recent cases highlighted.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Oct 28, 2009 12:36 JST
- Tags: Australia, Encryption, Law, Loli, Lolicon, Microsoft, Police, Technology, Windows

The Australian government is accusing Microsoft of protecting child abusers by including powerful encryption in Windows 7.
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