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statistics
This page offers some basic and recent statistics on different
aspects of content regulation in Australia and New Zealand.
It covers -
OFLC classifications
Recent activity by the OFLC in Australia has covered -
Publications
2004: 1,723 (8 withdrawn)
2003: 1,705 (30 banned, further 1,414 banned in QLD)
2002: 1,516 (16 banned, further 1,261 banned in QLD)
2001: 1,832 (70 banned, further 1,541 banned in QLD)
Films for public exhibition (cinema films)
2004: 473 (9 withdrawn)
2003: 439 (0 banned)
2002: 437 (1 banned)
2001: 376 (0 banned)
Films for sale/hire (eg DVDs and VCRs)
2004: 3,961 (92 withdrawn)
2003: 2,727 (10 banned, further 336 X-rated/banned in
States)
2002: 2,788 (17 banned, further 523 X-rated/banned in
States)
2001: 2,852 (85 banned, further 933 X-rated/banned in
States)
Computer Games
2004: 654 (8 withdrawn)
2003: 661 (2 banned)
2002: 747 (1 banned)
2001: 583 (0 banned)
broadcast
In New Zealand the Broadcasting Standards Authority reports
that in the five years to June 2004 it issued an average
of 214 decisions a year, of which
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38% related to good taste and decency
- 38%
to fairness, balance and accuracy
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10% to privacy
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6% to discrimination
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4% to children’s interests
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4% to other standards
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68% concerned television broadcasters, 32% to radio
broadcasters
75% of complaints were not upheld
online offences
For a perspective on online offences see the 2004
NZ Department of the Interior report on Internet Traders
of Child Pornography and other Censorship Offenders in
New Zealand (PDF).
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