• Media Representations and Responsibilities: Psychological Perspectives by the Australian Psychological Society -- Working Group of the Directorate of Social Issues, July 2000
  
  
• Children’s Views about Media Harm – A collaborative project between the University of Western Sydney and the Australian Broadcasting Authority, 2000
  
  
• Getting in the Picture – A Parent’s and Carer’s Guide for the Better Use of Television for Children by the Division of Paediatrics and Child Health, Royal Australasian College of Physicians Health Policy Unit, 2000
  
  
• Does Media Violence Hurt your Children? -- Young Media Australia
  
  
• The effects of Television and Multimedia on children and families in Victoria – Final Report from the Family and Community Development Committee, Parliament of Victoria, October 2000
  
  
• Stop Teaching Our Kids To Kill – A call to action against TV, movie and video game violence by Co. Dave Grossman and Gloria DeGaetano (Crown Publishers, 1999)
  Violent Video games: A critical review of the literature by A. Ask, University of Adelaide, 1995
  
  
• Interview with Associate Professor Ann Sanson – Institute for Family Studies
  
  
• Interview with Jane Roberts – vice-president of Young Media Australia
  
  
• Interview with Associate Professor Virginia Nightingale -- University of Western Sydney
  
  
• Interview with Dr Stephen Juan, child anthropologist and psychologist – Sydney University
  
  
• Interview with Peter Gibson -- the Civil Aviation Safety Authority.
  
  
• Understanding TV’s Effects on the Developing Brain by Jane M. Healy, Ph.D. -- AAP News, the official news magazine of the American Academy of Pediatrics
  
  
• How violent video games may violate children’s health by E. Hae-Jung Song, MD and J.E. Anderson, MD, published in Contemporary Pediatrics 2001
  
  
• Video Game Violence: A Review of the Empirical Literature by K. Dill & J. Dill, Aggression and Violent behaviour, Vol. 3, No. 4
  
  
• National Coalition on Television Violence -- NCTV News
  
  
• An examination of violence and gender role portrayals in video games: Implications for gender socialization and aggressive behaviour by T. Dietz, Sex Roles: A Journal of Research 1998
  
  
• Playspace invaders: Huizinga, Baudrillard and video game violence by R. Schroeder, Journals of Popular Culture, Vol. 30 No. 3
  
  
• The Mind and the Media by Paul J. Sorgi, MD, Mind Matters Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 8
  
  
• Physiologic responses to playing a video game by K. Siegal & W. Deitz (1991), American Journal of Diseases of Children, Vol. 145.
  
  
• Effects of Violent Video Games on Aggressive Behavior, Aggressive Cognition, Aggressive Affect, Physiological Arousal, and Prosocial Behavior: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Scientific Literature by C. A. Anderson B. J. Bushman, Iowa State University, Psychological Science December, 2000.
  
  
• Differences in eye-hand motor co-ordination of video-game users and non-users by J. L. Griffith, P. Voloschin, G. D. Gibb & J. R. Bailey (1983), Perception and Motor Skills
  
  
• Video games: Utilization of a novel strategy to improve perceptual motor skills and cognitive functioning in the non-institutionalized elderly, Cognitive Rehabilitation
  
  
• How violent video games may violate children’s health by E. Hae-Jung Song, MD and J.E. Anderson, MD, published in Contemporary Pediatrics 2001
  
  
• \Video games, aggression, and self-esteem: A survey by S. Fling, L. Smith, T. Rodrigues, et al, Social Behavior and Personality 1992
  
  
• How violent video games may violate children’s health by E. Hae-Jung Song, MD and J.E. Anderson, MD, published in Contemporary Pediatrics 2001
  
  
• Video Games and Aggressive Thoughts, Feelings, and behavior in the Laboratory and in Life by C. A. Anderson and K.E. Dill, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2000, Vol. 78, No. 4
  
  
• Department of Fair Trading, Standards Australia
  
  
• Australian Consumers Association
  
  Office for Film and Literature website & OFLC 1999-2000 and 2001-2002 Annual Reports
  
  
• Kingpin of Crime website
  
  
• Sunday Telegraph Newspaper
  
  
• Sydney Morning Herald Newspaper
  
  
• Daily Oklahoman Newspaper.
  
  
• The Denver Post Newspaper
  
  
• Toronto Star Newspaper
  
  
• The Guardian Newspaper
  
  
• Associated Press
  
  
• News Limited
  
  
• Factiva News Archives
  
  

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