Australian Censorship
- Hate speech (HREOC)
- Defamation
- publications/films/games (OFLC)
- Federal Net censorship (ACMA)
- Censorware
- Labelling (RSACi/ICRA)
- Intellectual Property (separate page)
- State censorship issues
- Expert advice (ASIC, WHO, etc.)
- Education: unis, schools, libraries
- Music (ARIA etc.)
- Humour
- Controversial Material
- A speech to a Press Council seminar
- Speech on Internet regulation
- my speech to December 13th rally
- Smear tactics in 1996 and 1999
- A ramble on Internet hotlines
Book Reviews
Sense and Censorship (Australian history)
Slapping on the Writs (defamation)
Digital Copyright (Litman)
Secrets and Lies (Schneier)
Torn Shapes of Desire (erotica)
Word Crimes (blasphemy in C19 Britain)
Giving Offense (essays by Coetzee)
More book reviews: civil liberties, the Internet.
News and Links
personal freedom should include the freedom to wear a burqa - Independent
Mark Newton's excellent submission to JS Committee on CyberSafety - gov.au
Iceland rewrites media laws to support Wikileaks - Independent
Turkish censors take on Google and YouTube - Register
Salo unbanned again, but wowsers call for its rebanning - SMH
porn prevents sex crimes - Scientist
"What does correlate highly with sex offense is a strict, repressive religious upbringing."
(For more links, see my blog Pathologically Polymathic.)
Join in the Debate
Censorship in Australia is discussed on the stop-censorship mailing list.Other Sites
Along with the Electronic Frontiers Australia site, the best source for information on Internet censorship in Australia is Irene Graham's Liberty or Tyranny site; her The State of Censorship covers Australian censorship more generally.For coverage of the current events in censorship and moral outrage, a good source is Somebody Think of the Children. Refused Classification tracks bans on films and games.
Rod Williams has useful information on Australian film censorship. For privacy, the Australian Privacy Foundation does good work.
Many items censored in Australia are available at Amazon.
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