Misinformed topics are misinformed
1. Rockstar removed "offensive" content from the Australian gtaiv before they submitted it for classification. This was done under the assumption that our OFLC would ban it in its current form. They didn't remove anything from "episodes from liberty city", and it got the same MA15+ rating. I know in most cases, our rating board are to blame for content being removed, but with the GTA series, they have been pretty good.
2. For those blaming our liberal (in our case, labor) government, our games rating system has been in place (and unchanged) since the early 90's. When the original surge of ultra-violent games (including GTA 3) started, our country was ruled by the right (liberals in our case...). Our left here, while a bunch of dumb shits, at least are more open minded when it comes to gaming violence. The amount of games that are banned has dropped under labor.
3. All our state governor-generals have agreed to review the classification system, with the proposed outcome being an R18+ rating.