Cinemas prove nothing is sacred

You know that the regulators are comprehensively failing in their duty and badly letting down families in the process when you can't see a G classified bible movie on a Sunday without being exposed to adult content.

Quite simply at least one cinema chain in continuing the breach the regulations regarding the screening of trailers is putting commercial imperatives ahead of the rights of families and the law.

In this most recent instance before the screening of The Ten Commandments a trailer for the M Classified And The She Found Me was shown. Surely it is not unreasonable to expect to be able to see an animated movie about the life of Moses without having to know if Bette Midler is always verbal during sex.

And this is not an isolated case.

Since September 2007, I have noted 11 separate incidents where the same cinema chain has screened trailers for movies classified higher than the classification of the feature movie in breach of section 21A of the Classification of Films Act 1991 (Qld).

Even more worryingly, a written complaint to the regulators resulted in nothing more than an assurance that the chain in question would be reminded of its responsibilities - fat lot of good that did.

The Federal Government this year launched Inquiry into the sexualisation of children in the contemporary media environment. Well if Kevin Rudd wants a starting point he need look no further than his own electorate where all 11 of the recorded breaches took place.

It's something I intend to make the Member for Griffith aware of. Watch this space.