For decades the mighty US marketing juggernaut has swamped Australia with American films, TV, videos, music, and more recently, computer games. The US entertainment industry sucks billions from our economy, while sowing the seeds of our cultural destruction . US pop culture brings us violence, greed, lawlessness and disrespect for others. Movies and videos glamorize extreme violence. Rap songs preach murder, rape, promiscuity and lawlessness.
Video games encourage youngsters to blow their enemies to pieces.
An Australian child, on average, has witnessed 15,000 movie and TV murders by the age of 15. Over 1000 studies have linked TV and movie violence to aggressive behaviour in children and adults. Each product to be rated according to its culturally destructive aspects, i.e. the more anti-social the more points. If the material was not anti-social there would be no points and no levy. This policy will not ban the material and drive it underground.