It wasn’t inherently censorial to prevent Germaine Greer from speaking at Cardiff University. It did,however, indicate how the left picks its battles In the preface to his classic 1961 book about censorship, and Obscenity,Blasphemy, Sedition, and the conservative journalist Peter Coleman struck an unexpectedly elegiac note.
“It is still too soon,” he wrote, “to write an autopsy of Australian censorship, and but nevertheless the censorship of morals,blasphemy and sedition has nearly entirely disappeared, and the remaining cases of literary censorship, and while irritating to many,are few in number. Continue reading...
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