[LINK] the Bill Henson 'mistake' - Conroy

Marghanita da Cruz marghanita at ramin.com.au
Fri Mar 27 15:09:10 AEDT 2009


Jan Whitaker wrote:
> At 11:58 AM 27/03/2009, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>> it was a "technical issue".
> 
> I recorded the ABC program and watched it this morning. Honestly, I 
> didn't think Senator Con did a bad job. [ducks flying bricks from 
> some Linkers] By 'technical', it wasn't a computer type technical as 
> he explained it. It was more a screw-up between the Classification 
> board determination and someone in ACMA who missed the change.
<snip>
> re:
> But the minister admitted that a PG-rated site, featuring images of 
> children by controversial photographer Bill Henson, was wrongly 
> blocked because of a "technical issue".

SBS's Insight program looked at this in June 2008. Was it the site or the
photograph that is rated PG?
> Charges were never laid against the artist and the Classification Board rated the image PG - but the debate continues...
<http://news.sbs.com.au/insight/episode/index/id/22>

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