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	Censorship Information
		Sanitization (removal) and whitewashing are almost interchangeable terms that refer to a particular form of censorship via omission, which seeks to "clean up" the portrayal of particular issues and/or facts that are already known, but that may be in conflict with the point of view of the censor.
		Censorship is regarded among a majority of academics in the Western world as a typical feature of dictatorships and other authoritarian political systems.
		Censorship has been alleged to occur in such media policies as blurring the boundaries between hard news and news commentary, and in the appointment of allegedly biased commentators, such as a former government attorney, to serve as anchors of programs labeled as hard news but comprising primarily anti-criminal commentary.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Censorship (2706 words)

	Censorship in School Libraries
		Censorship is attempted by a variety of individuals or groups, and can affect all mediums.
		The human dynamics of censorship were examined by Fine (1996), resulting in the conclusion that those whose behaviour promoted censorship were most likely to be authoritarian in personality, with a need to exert control.
		Staples notes that one of the most insidious forms of censorship is that of 'stealth', (1996) where a teacher librarian 'quietly removes books' that are considered to be a potential source of controversy.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Styx/7534/UNIVERSITY/TLship/censorship.html (2541 words)

	It Can Happen Again: Censorship
		Australia has a Classification Act that is both conservative and open to interpretation, a regime within the Office of Film and Literature Classification that appears to be conservatively inclined, whether genuinely or because of expedience, and a federal government that enthusiastically supports such conservatism.
		During the furore the lobby group Watch On Censorship wrote to the OFLC calling for urgent reforms to the procedures and public accountability of the organisation.
		Watch on Censorship was originally formed in a public assembly at the Chauvel Cinema in Sydney in 1996 in urgent response to the unwarranted tightening of the censorship regulations.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/00/4/censorship.html (2276 words)

	Internet censorship in Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Internet censorship in Australia is largely the province of the Federal Government and its laws on internet censorship are, theoretically, amongst the most restrictive in the Western world.
		According to Electronic Frontiers Australia in at least one documented case, the hosting was merely shifted to a server in the United States, and the DNS records updated so that consumers may never have noticed the change.
		The Family Association of Australia petitioned the Australian Federal Government in 2004 to further restrict access by children to pornographic material via the Internet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Australia (625 words)

	Australia Orders Censorship of Fredrick Töben Web Site
		He studied at universities in Australia, New Zealand and Germany, and holds a Master's degree in education and a Doctorate in philosophy.
		Centered in South Australia's largest city, and funded by donations, it plays a major role in the worldwide struggle against the historical flout through its web site, an informative newsletter, and other activities.
		In Canada a censorship effort is underway similar to the one against Töben.
	www.ihr.org /jhr/v19/v19n5p14_censorship.html (1661 words)

	Double Jeopardy: Censorship in School Libraries
		The history of censorship in school libraries is a long and sad one.
		Although Australia does not have an equivalent document to the American Constitution that guarantees freedom of speech under law, our judicial system defers to the Declaration of Human Rights in the absence of a relevant statute or precedence.
		In addressing the issue of censorship in school libraries, it is vital to refer to the core purpose of the institution of the school, not only the library.
	www.geocities.com /koalakid_1999/PAPERS/censorship.htm (2321 words)

	wintersun.org - End censorship in Australia
		Freedom of expression in Australia is under threat from increasingly intrusive censorship.
		Australia is particularly vulnerable amongst Western liberal democracies because it has no constitutional or legislative protections for freedom of expression.
		Censorship and Classification in Australia, a briefing paper from the Australian Parliamentary Library.
	wintersun.org /censorship (706 words)

	Censorship in Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The last scenario is the story of censorship in Australia.
		Australia now has the strictest censorship in the western world.
		The EFA (Electronic Frontiers of Australia) is an organisation dedicated to protecting the rights of cyber space citizens.
	members.optusnet.com.au /~pk1956/censorship (555 words)

	Intolerance, racism, bigotry and censorship. \| theatre australia
		I'm not saying that Australia would need a 9/11-type event to make a stand; just that we're a multicultural country, with different backgrounds, and it's hard to see an issue become so common and so passionate that people would make a communal, national stand.
		The idea that we are a "free nation" "the land of opportunity" is imbedded into the national pysche and it wil remain so for a long while yet.
		Australia is a evolving country we have had no revolution to bring about rapid change and in honesty I fear revolutions immensley.
	www.theatre.asn.au /blog/logos/intolerance_racism_bigotry_and_censorship_0 (1778 words)

	Internet Censorship and Civil Liberties (Australia)
		I attended a Watch on Censorship forum "Meet the Censor", with special guest is Des Clark, the new Director of the OFLC.
		Censorship in Australia is discussed in the newsgroup
		source for information on Internet censorship in Australia is Irene Graham's Liberty or Tyranny site; her The State of Censorship covers Australian censorship more generally.
	danny.oz.au /freedom (208 words)

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		Censorship is a different matter when it comes to the influence of vested interests, says Brian Martin, an associate professor in science, technology and society at the University of Wollongong, who has published articles on the suppression of dissent in science.
		He says this form of censorship is alive and well in Australia.
		Diesendorf says withholding funding is another form of censorship, with many research grants now subject to ministerial approval and what he describes as unequal funding for Cooperative Reserch Centres (CRCs).
	www.climateark.org /shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=52460 (916 words)

	IFEX ::
		More censorship laws have been passed since John Howard was elected Prime Minister of Australia in 1996 than have ever been passed in the country's history, states Phillip Adams in the latest issue of "Index On Censorship" (04/2000) entitled "This Sporting Life".
		In a collection of papers on censorship in Australia compiled by Adams, a group of authors explore the history of censorship in Australia, and how censorship has been and continues to be used to uphold social intolerance present in Australian society.
		Adams recounts how commonplace censorship was for the first half of the twentieth century, including the banning of a wide range of literature, art and films.
	www.ifex.org /da/content/view/full/27249 (541 words)

	Censorship in Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Australia is a federal nation, and responsibility for censorship rests neither wholly with the states, nor wholly with the federal government.
		As of 2005, censorship regime is largely the purview of the OFLC, a statutory body which operates independently of the Federal Government.
		Levels of censorship of books are high in Australia compared to other democratic nations (especially in Europe and North America where there is usually zero censorship of any kind, including age restrictions).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Censorship_in_Australia (4157 words)

	wintersun.org - Reasons to end censorship in Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Despite the empty reassurances of politicians, freedom of expression in Australia is subject to the whims of the politicians of the day.
		Censorship allows socially conservative groups to inflict their particular views on others by prohibiting differing views.
		Censorship criminalises the expression of ideas, such as images, of acts which are themselves quite lawful.
	wintersun.org /censorship/reasons.html (320 words)

	Reservoir Dogs game banned - Games - Technology - theage.com.au
		Originally due out next month, the game is based on the Quentin Tarantino cult classic, and the OFLC said the decision was made on the basis that the game contained "frequent depictions of violence that have a high impact".
		Australia's game classification system differs from those in many other countries in that there is no adult category for games - unlike film and other media.
		Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure, a game about graffiti artists, was refused classification earlier this year under the rigorous scheme, after local councils and state governments asked for a review of its MA 15+ rating on the basis that playing the game might promote or incite a crime.
	www.theage.com.au /news/games/australia-bans-reservoir-dogs-game/2006/06/28/1151174246509.html (332 words)

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		Censorship in Australia has become a very big issue and one which most people may not actually be aware of because it doesn't seem to impinge on their daily lives.
		Our censorship laws are not only antiquated, they are insulting, for they assume that the average Australian is not responsible enough to choose his or her own entertainment, rather than have it chosen by some Soviet-style committee.
		Censorship in Australia has reached new levels since 1996, and is increasing daily, with most of the population not being aware of what is happening to them.
	www.zipworld.com.au /~josken/censored.htm (6442 words)

	Censorship in Australia
		No condemnation against the thugs as we were told by the mainstream media that they were simply exercising their right of freedom of speech.
		Especially for the reasons that the book was written by a person close to the One Nation hierarchy, and, that the book was levelled at the corruption in Australia's political/media alliance and their collective role in attempting to destroy another party.
		On the 9th February at a time when the book was selling extremely well through Dymocks stores, the Chairman of the franchise chain, John Forsyth, took the unprecedented step of calling for all stores to remove the book from their bookshelves.
	members.tripod.com /balson/censor1.htm (765 words)

	BBC News \| ASIA-PACIFIC \| Australia accused of censorship
		Australia's main media watchdog has accused the authorities of censoring press coverage of the government's treatment of asylum seekers.
		The Australian Press Council says journalists are routinely denied access to asylum seekers held in detention centres, most of which are in remote areas and run under tight security.
		He said it was an insult to the citizens of Australia.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/asia-pacific/1684380.stm (120 words)

	G+T - An Essential Guide to Internet Censorship in Australia
		The legislation’s approach to content outside Australia is broadly similar to that for content inside Australia in that the ABA issues a notice to a service provider after receiving and investigating a complaint.
		The basic effect of the notice issued by the ABA is to require the service provider to take reasonable steps to prevent access to specified content, or, if a code or standard is in place, to prevent access to that content in accordance with the code or standard.
		Further, where before that data could be stored in Australia to satisfy later requests (that is, it could be cached or mirrored), now the data must be imported each time a content seeker requests it, multiplying the cost of providing the data.
	www.gtlaw.com.au /gt/site/articleIDs/E075543AA5A3F06DCA256D33001BF8F2?open&ui=dom&template=domGT (4837 words)

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		Blood and gore in a showbag [censorship called for Marvel Comic inappropriate for children].
		Censorship incidents on the rise; CBLDF lays to rest two cases while statistics suggest more to come.
		Censorship at BYU is kept in the closet [editorial cartoons].
	www.rpi.edu /~bulloj/search/CENSORSHIP.html (796 words)

	Censorship and Free Speech Guide: Australian Law
		The Constitution does not feature any explicit provision relating to freedom of speech and - as we have noted in discussing human rights - does not enshrine a list of personal rights or freedoms that may be enforced in the courts.
		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
	www.caslon.com.au /censorshipguide4.htm (1213 words)

	Newsvine - Australia: Censorship in a time of terror
		Freedom of speech in Australia is in far worse shape than generally understood.
		Under a regime of censorship the public's ability to make informed and considered decisions is diminished.
		As far as Australia's politicians exhibiting autonomy goes, we prefer to think of them as a conga line of suckholes, bending over for Washington.
	djehuty.newsvine.com /_news/2006/10/31/421276-australia-censorship-in-a-time-of-terror (1575 words)

	Refused-Classification.com \| Film Censorship in Australia
		The eventual aim is to provide a detailed history of film censorship in Australia since the introduction of the R18+ rating in 1971.
		Censorship before this point was just too widespread to even attempt to cover.
		It is worth noting that because this is a history of censorship, many titles that are listed as being cut or banned in the past would now easily pass with R18+ or even M15+ and MA15+ ratings.
	www.refused-classification.com (997 words)

	Randyte Zone - Censorship
		Censorship related articles in 2000 included a discussion on internet gambling, as well as a piece on the first six months of Internet censorship in Australia.
		In September 1999 I made a submission to the Internet Industry Association in relation to the internet censorship (what they call "content regulation") modules of their code of conduct.
		The idea was also used in Australia at one point, though in Australia pages were turned a very dark blue, to distinguish them from the US 'fl' pages.
	www2.hunterlink.net.au /~ddhrg/censorship.html (733 words)

	Jerry Everard's Personal Site: Internet censorship - Australia
		Australia doesn't have anything like that, other than a harking back to some second-hand legislation written in the 1680s under William and Mary, that we borrowed from the UK.
		As recently as 5 May 2000 the Electronic Frontiers Australia was saying that the Australian internet censorship regime is one of the most draconian Net censorship proposals the world has ever seen.
		I suppose this statement could be accurate if you were to list the censorship regimes of about 45 of the world's countries, in which case Australia might scrape in.
	www.lostbiro.com /papers/net_censorship_aust.html (3896 words)

	Games Censorship Collection - Resources - Government Publications
		Most importantly for the computer games censorship topic, the Act formally instituted a code for computer games classification that did not include an R rating and caused games to be banned to everyone if they were unsuitable for a minor to see or play.
		Although the document states clearly that the OFLC believed both scenes to be contextually justified, the ban was made in full accordance with the computer games censorship guidelines that do not allow contextual considerations to be taken into account in their blanket ban on depicting all forms of non-educational simulated sexual activity.
		Headed by Labor Senator Margaret Reynolds who turned her personal crusade of protecting children from computer games into official Government policy, it was the first Government document that recommended games be censored and that they be regulated more harshly than film (such as with the omission of an R category).
	anthonylarme.tripod.com /gc/gcrgovt.html (1973 words)

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