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Forget the breasts, this is serious

Wed 03 Feb, 2010

Sun, sea and… no sex or politics. According to reports Australia has gone censorship crazy, at home and away (on the internet). DAVID JACKMANSON brave the battle of the (bantam) breasts to find out what’s really going on

There’s been plenty of fuss over censorship in Australia this last week, some justified, some a little overblown. A sensationalist claim that ‘small breasts’ have been banned from pornography published in Australia (they haven’t) got attention all over the internet (where else?), while the South Australian Government’s plan to ban anonymous political speech during election times has led to a hammering from the Murdoch press in Adelaide, plus online anger.


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