Bill Hastings
Lawyer
Midland Avenue Collegiate Institute...and it now operates as the Bond College of Business and Technology. Deputy Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police Jay Hope The Honourable David C. Onley, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario Bill Hastings, Chief Censor of New Zealand In this article: Midland Avenue Collegiate Institute, Scarborough, Ontario, Ontario Provincial Police, Bill Hastings, Ontario, and New Zealand |
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Wikipedia | October 26, 2009
Manhunt (series)
...OFLC for classification, following its pre-release controversies. Following a meeting in Toronto on December 22, 2003 between Bill Hastings, the Chief Censor of New Zealand, and officials from the Ontario Ministry of Consumer and Business...
In this article: Manhunt, Manhunt 2, Take-Two Interactive, Jack Thompson, Wii, Entertainment Software Rating Board, Rockstar Games, and United Kingdom
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Manhunt (video game)
...that Leblanc did not actually own the game, but Pakeerah did. Canada: Following a meeting in Toronto on December 22, 2003 between Bill Hastings, the Chief Censor of New Zealand, and officials from the Ontario Ministry of Consumer and...
In this article: Manhunt, Ontario, GameSpot, Xbox, and PlayStation 2
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Pavement (magazine)
...compliance unit claiming that a number of images of teenage girls and one 10-year-old were "legally objectionable". Chief censor Bill Hastings felt there was a prima facie case to be answered. Editor Bernard McDonald stated there was...
In this article: Pavement, Terry Richardson, New York City, Paris Hilton, New Zealand, Revenue, Ecpat, Pierre et Gilles, and Whitcoulls
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Office of Film and Literature Classification (New Zealand)
...to "sexual promiscuity" and often its criticism of the OFLC refers to the fact the Chief Censor, Bill Hastings, is gay. The Society has alleged that Mr Hastings is a participant in a 'gay agenda' aimed at promoting homosexuality and...
In this article: New Zealand, DVD, Department of Internal Affairs, Lolita, Irreversible, and Baise-moi
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Society for the Promotion of Community Standards
...speech bans, the repeal of section 59 of the Crimes Act, and the decriminalisation of sex work. The SPCS has repeatedly criticised Bill Hastings, New Zealand's Chief Censor, the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC), and the...
In this article: Baise-moi, 9 Songs, Patricia Bartlett, Kill Bill, Visitor Q, and Y tu mama tambien
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Arthur Everard
...and functions of the Chief Censor until it was repealed by the Films, Videos and Publications Amendment Act on 24 March 1999 while Bill Hastings was Acting Chief Censor. Everard resumed making films after stepping down as Chief Censor,...
In this article: Arthur Everard, New Zealand Listener, Women Against Pornography, Victoria University of Wellington, Gottfried Lindauer, and Paul Maunder
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Bill Hastings
William Kenneth Hastings has been New Zealand's Chief Censor since 1999. Hastings is New Zealand's tenth Chief Censor. Born in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, he holds a BA from the University of Trinity College, University of Toronto, law...
In this article: Manhunt, New Zealand, Osgoode Hall Law School, DVD, and Christian Heritage Party
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Pat Briggs
...the industrial band Psychotica. He also played the role of gay rock musician Luke in All Over Me and was once briefly associated with Bill Hastings. In addition, he appeared in the New York Theatre Workshop version of RENT, in the role of Tom...
In this article: Pat Briggs, Carrie Hamilton, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Psychotica, Lung cancer, Impotent Sea Snakes, and Tribeca Film Festival
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Kathryn Paterson
...returned to Sydney to become director of the Office of Film and Literature Classification (Australia), a position she held until her death ten months later on 20 September 1999. She was succeeded as Chief Censor by her deputy, Bill Hastings.
In this article: Sydney, New Zealand, Imperialism, and Macquarie University
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The Australian | March 03, 2009
WINTEC Hosts Seminar On Violent Video Games
...being inundated with violet behaviours and imagery before they were capable of contextualising it . New Zealand's chief Censor, Bill Hastings is guest speaker at a public information seminar about this issue in Hamilton on Thursday March...
In this article: Legal age, Halo, Grand Theft Auto, Wintec, and New Zealand
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William Kenneth Hastings has been New Zealand's Chief Censor since 1999.
Hastings is New Zealand's tenth Chief Censor. Born in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, he holds a BA from the University of Trinity College, University of Toronto, law degrees from Osgoode Hall Law School and the London School of Economics, and is a practising barrister. Before becoming Chief Censor, he was Senior Lecturer in Law (teaching Legal System and International Law), Deputy Dean of Law, and a member of the governing Council, at Victoria University of Wellington. He was also briefly the Video Recordings Authority in 1994, a member of the Indecent Publications Tribunal from 1990 to 1994 and Deputy President of the Film and Literature Board of Review from 1995 to 1998.
He was appointed Deputy Chief Censor in 1998 by the Governor-General of New Zealand on the recommendation of the Jenny Shipley-led National coalition government. He was appointed Chief Censor by the Governor-General on the recommendation of the Helen Clark-led Labour coalition government for a three-year term in 1999, a one-year term in 2002, another three-year term in 2003 and a third three-year term late in 2006.
The Chief Censor is the Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson of the Office of Film and Literature Classification.
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