This one's from two weeks ago but I noticed that nobody had posted it up yet.

Lolicon artwork was in an unknown legal state until very recently. There is still no law on paper that says it's illegal, but unfortunately we now have a precedent.

http://www.customs.gov.au/site/page.cfm?c=9256

The fine was $9000, and the "child pornography" in question was only anime, something almost any of us might have in our collection. Oh, and animated images of sexual violence are apparently illegal too. You can't tell me you don't have a copy of Bible Black around somewhere, or something even worse.

So the bad news is, Australia isn't safe for lolicon anymore.

The good news is, $9000 seems like a pretty light penalty compared to the fine for actual child porn (up to $275,000 and/or 10 years imprisonment.)

You have to wonder who they're trying to protect though. As far as I can see, the only one who got out of this any better than they went in was whoever received the money from the fine.