ALIA Submission on Modernising Australia’s Classification Scheme – Stage 2 Reforms

ALIA made a submission to The Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts' modernisation of the Australian Classification Scheme. 
The submission includes feedback around current Classification procedures and mechanisms, several definitions that are central to reforms, the establishment and makeup of a proposed independent Classification Advisory Panel, and indications about future communications of classification decisions. 
ALIA notes that the submission is written in a period where anti-LGBTQIA+ protests against library collections and programs have been at an elevated level for more than 12 months in Australia and warns against changes to the scheme inadvertently acting as a tool to discriminate against or suppress the voices of marginalised communities.