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'Martin Ritchie Sharp was born into a wealthy Sydney family in 1942. He was educated at Cranbrook School and went on to study at the East Sydney National Art School. In 1963, Richard Neville, Sharp, Richard Walsh and some of their friends launched the satirical Oz magazine. The first issue carried cartoons by Sharp that lampooned the monarchy and ridiculed sexual taboos. As if this was not enough, another cartoon by Sharp depicted the Christian God as a tycoon smoking a cigar at his desk with trays marked Heaven, Purgatory and Hell. Other subjects avoided by the mainstream press that were now voiced in Oz included suburban customs and habits caricatured in Sharp’s dull and tedious ‘Norman Normal’; misogynistic abuse of women as parodied in his The Word Flashed round the Arms; publication of the names of organised-crime bosses with links to the police; and condemnation of laws against abortion and homosexuality that created opportunities for blackmail and extortion.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon History Australia vol. 15 no. 2 2018 14080578 2018 periodical issue

    'Regionalism and internationalism are themes that emerge strongly in this issue. Intersecting with these is evidence of the ever-expanding scholarship on the experiences, consequences and representations of war. These themes are not only subjects of research, but also frame much of the teaching done by historians in our universities.' (Editors introduction)

    2018
    pg. 387-389
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