While you have no doubt seen or heard about the issue of the R18+ rating in Australia (if not, brush up here), there are many supporters both in an official and unofficial capacity.

One of the “official” supporters is “Grow up Australia”. They teamed up with game store chain EB Games to gather as many survey submissions as they possibly could for the Attorneys-General to wade through. They did this by placing posters in 250+ EB Games stores nationwide to advertise you could fill out a survey there, and also by obtaining submissions via their own website.

Aaron John Percival, one of the founders of Grow up Australia says, “support for the introduction of the R18+ rating has been overwhelming with ninety-nine percent of the submissions made through the website in favor of the change”.  Jake Edwards, the other founder of the group, adds that “with less than a week until the deadline for submissions, there is still opportunity for people who want to get involved to make a submission directly to the Attorney-General’s Department”.

They are sending the 16,056 submissions today in hopes that they’ll make it in on time to be included. If you’ve not gotten your submission in, you can still do so by visiting http://www.ag.gov.au/gamesclassification, but you’re running out of time – submissions close February 28th.

If you’d like to find out more about the “Grow up Australia” group you can visit their website, follow their Twitter, or fan them on Facebook!