Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 The Death of Satire: Remembering Barry Humphries
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'A personal anecdote, to begin. In a letter to the press in late 2014, Barry Humphries asked: Has Australia gone slightly mad? I read in the London press of some poor professor in Sydney who has been persecuted and suspended for sending emails to a friend in which he employs outrageous vernacular epithets for race which would be offensive if they were not so clearly jocular' (Publication abstract) 

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    y separately published work icon Quadrant vol. 67 no. 6 June 2023 26485460 2023 periodical issue 2023 pg. 25-28
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