Nah. Money runs this country. Statistically speaking, we spend more time talking about the economy than any other country on the planet.
But anyway, things that you lads up north take for granted, like video-games among others [like good Sci-Fi telly], are all but ignored. Honestly, when I see a game ad on TV, I sit up and take notice, as it's quite a rare sight [at least in NSW, anyway].
dude, science fiction TV is a statistic impossibility in tasmania, and yeah, in general, unless it's a world debut, games run quite a few months behind the US in terms of release dates.
while i'll agree with the whole "don't give minors games that aren't in their age rating" thing, the target, however, is the incorrect one, as more often than not, it's the adult PARENT that is buying the game for their kid to just shut them up, it'll be contested, to be sure.
the jail term is just a little overkill in anybody's books, and just utterly stupid, i'd LIKE to see a judge pass that through court.
that said, our video games are rated not unlike actual movies and such, and that's a fair asessment on things, is it not?. (australia has some really tightass censors, too)