Presumably children are going to see one sooner or later. For that, in the end, is what legislation such as this effects. The world made safe for the childlike mind. The purpose of the education process and of the family is to prepare the child for the adult world. Censorship makes children of us all, and makes government into a substitute for the rights of the parent.
Information can be dangerous.
But it is a retrograde step to make it an offence to freely access information. The NSW Government wants its legislation to be a model for national legislation. What he does not quite grasp is that the whole legislation is an anomaly that a free society ought not to tolerate. McKenzie Wark lectures in media studies at Macquarie University.