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'It’s instructive to remember what a relatively illiberal society Australia was only a few decades ago and this account of the obscenity court cases about Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint in the early 1970s – written by a young author who wrote a much-praised biography of Billy McMahon – is a good reminder of this. When Gough Whitlam came in, everything changed so that Australians saw a fuller version, say, of Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris than the British, but the period was a crossroads.' (Introduction)
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Patrick Mullins, The Trials of Portnoy
The Saturday Paper
The Saturday Paper
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- The Trials of Portnoy : How Penguin Brought down Australia's Censorship System 2020 single work criticism
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