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R18 my library1/16/2024 ![]() Professor Moore said legislation still allowed certain books to be banned in Australia, and it did still occur. "The idea of there being a nation state that can draw a border around itself to say, 'we are like this, our reading public is like this, and different to this other reading public', that is just a notion that has gone with the wind." "Contemporary society is enabling all kinds of material to be brought to the surface that wouldn't have been before," Professor Moore said. ![]() "There is still a mandate for restriction and control over certain kinds of materials coming into the Australian reading public, but it remains very difficult to regulate the internet," she said.īooks and digital content, which would have once been censored, are much harder to monitor today. "Beyond import restrictions, domestic censorship operated through police action, vice squads, postal regulation, and civil and criminal prosecution under the proliferating censorship and obscenity acts, which differed across state borders," she said. Professor Moore said the power of Australian Customs was diminished by the establishment of the Book Censorship Board in 1933 but prohibition was strictly enforced, and people caught with prohibited items could be prosecuted as criminals. The film adaptation however is readily available for children to watch depending on family internet restrictions. To this day the novel is required to be sold in a sealed wrapper. The book was categorised under Australian censorship legislation as blasphemous, indecent and obscene, and given an R18 classification. The psychological horror story was described at the time by novelist Andrew Motion as "deeply and extremely disgusting". Reasons for censorship throughout history: 'Deeply and extremely disgusting'Īs an example of how times change, and society's morals move with it, Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, which was released in 1991, follows the life of a wealthy investment banker with graphically violent urges. 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. An Australian literature researcher at the University of New South Wales, Nicole Moore, has written about the nature of censorship in Australia's past.
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