Earlier this month, the Australian government announced plans to tighten the country’s already strict censorship rules by banning books and films deemed to “glorify terrorism.”

After state and territory attorneys-general blocked the attempt, the Federal Attorney-General, Philip Ruddock expressed outrage at at DVD he hadn’t seen, provoking a convenient outrage in the Australian media.

And now - surprise, surprise - the Federal Government has just released (via) a discussion paper outlining another set of tough new censorship proposals, expanding the definition of material that can be banned in the country. The proposals also tighten the already stringent film and literature classifications.

Victorian Attorney-General Rob Hulls warned that it was important that any changes “were clearly defined so as not to inadvertently catch materials that simply expressed different points of view”.

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