According the the ARS Technica site websites that orginate in Australia will soon be subject to a rating system designed to 'protect children'.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) announced that it has approved what it's referring to as the "Content Services Code".
I find this to be rather pointless.
For one, as I mentioned here, hosting in Australia can be criminally expensive, so many Aussies host websites outside of Australia.
The big whammy is that hardly any content on the internet is Australian hosted anyway and obviously these ratings do not apply to American, European and all other international websites.
It's all well and good to put ratings on websites, but since they won't apply to the vast majority of websites, this seems to be another mindboggling government waste of time and tax dollars.
