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Nicole Moore

AustLit coming your way

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November 2012, no. 346

After twelve years of building a vast online database of information about Australian literary culture, the consortium of universities responsible for the AustLit resource has decided that it is time for a major makeover. By the end of the year, AustLit will have a new look and will offer new ways of interacting with audiences. AustLit is embracing the world of interactivity and community participation so that researchers, teachers, librarians, and readers will be able to take part in enhancing our knowledge on the ways that Australians have told and thought about stories.

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The Censor’s Library: Uncovering the Lost History of Australia’s Banned Books by by Nicole Moore

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May 2012, no. 341
Geoffrey Cains reviews 'The Censor’s Library: Uncovering the Lost History of Australia’s Banned Books' by Nicole Moore

Even at the age of eighty-four it appears that our censors of old possessed a moral clarity that no longer exists. Censorship was carried out by the state as a force of moral purpose, protecting the population from the consequences of reading banned literature: to wit, moral decline and subversion, particularly among the powerless. This was pertinent to children whose innocence entailed a lack of knowledge of moral turpitude and who were seen as particularly vulnerable.

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