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Australia’s 20 Worst Cases of Censorship and Moral Panic in 2009

Australia’s 20 Worst Cases of Censorship and Moral Panic in 2009

20. Australia Post removes Lolita and other Penguin Classics from their shelves. PostShop outlets pull Popular Penguin titles such as Lolita, The History of Sexuality and The Delta of Venus from their shelves after customer complaints. Why? A spokesperson said the titles were inappropriate for a mainstream shop like Australia Post. I guess libraries and Dymocks...

Australia’s 20 Worst Cases of Censorship and Moral Outrage in 2008

20. You can’t put a vagina on a female sculpture At least not in Queensland. A nude female sculpture (with a vagina) at a beach side park in Bribie Island had Moreton Bay Regional Council mayor Allan Sutherland pink with embarrassment. The council removed the statue because it was not their job to ‘deliberately go...