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Women, Sex, Counterculture

Bureau of Lost Culture

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Oz Magazine - A Sidebar

In the 1960s, Australia repressed countercultural writing through police raids and criminal charges including obscenity. Richard Neville Martin Sharp and Jim Anderson fled to UK where they founded Oz magazine. By 1971, Oz was at the forefront of the underground movement. During its run of 48 issues up until 1973, it tackled all sorts of subjects ranging from gay rights to racism,. environment, sex, acid, rock music and the Vietnam War. It was renowned for its psychedelic covers by Martin Sharp, cartoons by Robert Crump. In the early 70s, it became the subject of the longest obscenity trial in British history, after it was raided by the Obscene Publication Division of the Metropolitan Police

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