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when Penguin fought for literature and liberty

  • Written by Patrick Mullins, Adjunct assistant professor, Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra
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One grey morning in October 1970, in a crowded, tizzy-pink courtroom on the corner of Melbourne’s Russell and La Trobe Streets, crown prosecutor Leonard Flanagan began denouncing a novel in terms that were strident and ringing.

“When taken as a whole, it is lewd,” he declared. “As to a large part of it, it is absolutely...

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