overview
trends
to 1968
from 1968
netwars
New Zealand
studies
early cases
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advocacy
attitudes
agencies
legislation
ratings
statistics
landmarks
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Censorship
and Free
Speech
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Australian
Constitution
& Cyberspace
Flagburning
sedition
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overview
This profile looks at the shape of censorship - offline
and online - in Australia over the past 220 years.
It supplements the broader discussion of principles, issues
and practices in the Censorship
& Free Speech and Secrecy
guides elsewhere on this site.
this profile
The following pages cover -
- trends
and topographies - anxieties, antagonisms and responses
over the past two centuries
- Australia
to 1968 - a
history of Australian colonial, federal and state/territory
law and practice to 1968
- Australia
from 1968 -
a history of Australian federal and state/territory
law and practice from 1968
- netwars
- censoring the net and the 'war on terror'
- New
Zealand - a complementary account of successive
New Zealand regimes, including the the Offensive
Publications Act 1892, the video panic of the 1980s,
the Mazengarb Report and the Bill of Rights Act 1990
- sources
& studies - a discussion of print and online
sources and studies (in print and online) regarding
censorship in Australia and New Zealand
- early
cases - comments on some historic censorship cases
in Australia and New Zealand
- recent
cases - selected recent censorship cases
- advocacy
- a map of libertarian, religious and industry lobby
groups
- attitudes
- what do Australians think about censorship?
- government
agencies -
the architecture of censorship: classification and police
agencies, customs and postal agencies, broadcast regulators
and courts
- legislation
- pointers to national and state/territory legislation
and industry codes
- ratings
- the operation of national and state/territory ratings
schemes
- statistics
- selected statistics about censorship in Australia
and New Zealand
- landmarks
- a timeline of key legislation, reports and events
for the two countries from 1819 to 2005
Those
pages are complemented by detailed profiles on defamation
and blasphemy and by
notes on issues such as cybersuicide,
bombmaking, sedition
and flag burning.
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