The Deputy Chief Censor. Ms Nicola McCully, whose statutory position expired on the 18th of September 2005, and yet remains on in her job, confirmed in a Sunday Star Times interview (13/08/06), that 80% of her time and that of the 16 censors in the Classification Unit, is devoted to the careful examination, classification and registration of DVDs and videos featurng sexually explicit adult material (hardcore porn sleaze). McCully who recieves a salary package of between $150,000 and $160,000 joined the team at the Classification Office in 1994 after leaving her first ever full-time job as a primary school teacher aide. Her boss, Chief Censor Bill Hastings, who heads the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) and whose statutory position expired in mid-October 2006; receives a salary package of between $190,000 and $200,000.  Precisely 82.21% of the combined salaries of these two Executive members funds their respective roles in the three-stage classification process of largely hardcore pornographic publications. In 2004/05 this amounted to $271,293 and in 2005/06 the contribution was $287,735, (remuneration costs in achieving Output 1 – defined as the examination, classification and registration of all publications dealt with in one financial year).

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