James Riley
Thursday, 18 March 2010 19:50
IT Policy -
Regulation
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With just two days remaining until polls open in the South Australian state election, the R18+ advocacy group Gamers4Croydon's plan to challenge Attorney-General Michael Atkinson for his safe Labor seat of Croydon is in full swing.
The infant party has a decent preferences deal with the Australian Sex Party – which is running a candidate in Croydon under a "Dump Atkinson … we're sick of wowsers" banner – and last week launched the Gamers4Croydon official constitution (a document that puts "Don’t be a dick" at the top of its regulations.
The constitution is certainly different – betweens regulations 3 and 4 is Pi, which directs its membership to have fun – but it covers the basics, if in an unfamiliar vernacular.
Most interesting is that it officially constitutes a process for name change. Having successfully commanded a national public awareness campaign for the R18+ adult games classification, Doe says the party is now looking to broaden both its horizons and its constituency.
Specifically, Gamers4Croydon is now in early preparation for a tilt at Senate seats in the next Federal election later this year, and will change its name (something, apparently, that retains the G4C acronym).
And its grassroots membership are hoping Kevin Rudd pulls one of his double dissolution triggers – which it says gives it a outside chance, if the campaign success it has enjoyed so far continues.
"We will analyse the results from the State election and try to determine just what sort of a groundswell we have created," Doe told iTWire..
"And if we have created something that we think is significant, then we will go for the Federal election. And fingers-crossed, it will go to a double-dissolution, because then we would have a really fantastic chance of getting in."
