![]() ![]() ![]() Professor Moore said Australian Customs censored readers as a form of self-protection and aimed to uphold moral standards to protect the citizens from obscenity, blasphemy and sedition - three pieces of legislation concerned with banning publications that threaten the national order. Photo:ABCĪn Australian literature researcher at the University of New South Wales, Nicole Moore, has written about the nature of censorship in Australia’s past. These days the practice of censoring material seems antiquated so are we still banning books, and if so, how? James Joyce’s Dubliners, along with hundreds of others, was once banned in Australia due to its “sensitive” content. ![]() D.H Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928), Jackie Collins’s The Stud (1969) and Bret Ellis’s American Psycho (1991) are among some of the books once-banned in Australia - and there are hundreds more. ![]()
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