After the censors first passed a horror film, David Marr traces the volte face.
The NSW Attorney-General has dealt himself into the film censorship business. In July Greg Smith led a remarkable last-ditch attempt to prevent Australia playing, after all these years, adult video games. Now the far-right conservative Liberal has driven the banning of the Dutch horror flick Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence).
The ban was greeted by contending forces across the internet with ridicule, consternation and whoops of victory. Having pressed Smith to act in the first place, FamilyVoice Australia (aka the Festival of Light) declared in triumph: ''Pornography based on human torture has no place on Australian screens.''
Inside Smith's office, heroic restraint appears to have been the order of the day. He assures the Herald that his chief of staff, Damien Tudehope, played no role in the banning of the horror film. Solicitor, would-be Liberal MP and fierce warrior in a string of past film censorship battles, Tudehope both guards Smith's door and sits on the advisory board of FamilyVoice Australia. Full Read
The NSW Attorney-General has dealt himself into the film censorship business. In July Greg Smith led a remarkable last-ditch attempt to prevent Australia playing, after all these years, adult video games. Now the far-right conservative Liberal has driven the banning of the Dutch horror flick Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence).
The ban was greeted by contending forces across the internet with ridicule, consternation and whoops of victory. Having pressed Smith to act in the first place, FamilyVoice Australia (aka the Festival of Light) declared in triumph: ''Pornography based on human torture has no place on Australian screens.''
Inside Smith's office, heroic restraint appears to have been the order of the day. He assures the Herald that his chief of staff, Damien Tudehope, played no role in the banning of the horror film. Solicitor, would-be Liberal MP and fierce warrior in a string of past film censorship battles, Tudehope both guards Smith's door and sits on the advisory board of FamilyVoice Australia. Full Read
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