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Formed | 1970 |
Jurisdiction | Commonwealth of Australia |
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Parent agency | Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts (current parent agency), OFLC (original parent agency), Australian Classification Board (brother agency) |
Website | http://www.classification.gov.au |
The Australian Classification Review Board is a statutory censorship and classification body overseen by the Australian Government. The corporate body is responsible for reviewing classification decisions made by the Australian Classification Board concerning films, video games and publications for exhibition, sale or hire in Australia. Review decisions need to be initiated by an appeal from a previous applicant, most commonly referred to as "aggrieved party", or a Federal or State Attorney-General.
As of 2020 [update] , the board comprises a convenor, deputy convenor and three other board members. The current convenor is Susan Bush, who was appointed in September 2022 to a three-year term. [1]
The Classification Review Board is a statutory body established by the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995 (Cth). This Act also provides a basis for the National Classification Code which guides their decision making. As the State and Territory governments retain responsibility for enforcing censorship and could withdraw from, or ignore the national classification scheme if they so wished, any changes to the national classification scheme must be agreed to by all the State and Territory Censorship Ministers (usually Attorneys-General). South Australia is the only state to maintain a separate Classification Council which can override national classification decisions applicable within the state.
The Classification Review Board does not censor material by ordering cuts or changes. However, they are able to effectively censor media by refusing classification and making the media illegal for hire, exhibit and import to Australia.
Below is a list of films reviewed by the Classification Review Board after having their initial ratings appealed. Each film includes a summary of its decision, with detailed reports of the reviews from 2001 to 2023 available at the Australian Classification website.
All appeals before 2006 were done when the review board was not owned by the Attorney-general's department but instead when it was overlooked by the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC).
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As of June 2025 [update] , the current members of the Classification Review Board are: [1]
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