The video games industry's peak lobby has welcomed Home Affairs Minister Brendan O'Connor's release of proposed classification guidelines for computer games that includes the introduction of an R18+ 'adult' classification.

Attorney General Robert McClalland has opened a new intelligence analysis centre in Canberra targeting organised crime backed by more than a billion dollars in information technology assets.

The Gillard Government is a step closer to introducing mandatory filtering of Refused Classification content from the internet with the release of a set of accountability and transparency measures that will apply to the policy.

Former Queensland Premier Peter Beattie has joined the chorus of calls for the creation of an R18+ classification for computer games, saying it is naïve to believe that having no adult rating protects kids from adult gaming content.

Federal Minister for Home Affairs, Hon. Brendan O’Connor today announced a strikingly more adept solution to keeping kids safe online than yesterday’s “big red button” from Sen. Conroy.

A Customs and Border Protection operation that monitored online pharmaceutical suppliers has led to raids on four houses in Adelaide that found 35,000 cold and flu tablets as part of a suspected pseudoephedrine importing syndicate.

The Federal Government has received more than 55,000 responses to a discussion paper about whether it should implement a R18+ rating category for video games, with the majority of those expected to have come from EB Games customers in support of such a scheme.