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Footnotes

*The author would like to thank the two anonymous referees ofLabour Historyfor their comments and suggestions. Google Scholar

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3. Smith’s Weekly, 31 May1930. Google Scholar

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48.Ibid., recommendation 12. Google Scholar

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56.This was the infamous “householder test.” Customs officers were instructed that “the term ‘indecent’ is to be interpreted in its wider sense … Collectors should be guided by their experience of what is usually considered unobjectionable in the household of the ordinary, self-respecting citizen.” At the time of theRedheapcontroversy, the Collector of Customs NSW interpreted the instructions in an even broader sense: the Department’s test of indecency was “whether the average householder would accept the book in question as reading matter for his family.” In other words, if a book could not safely be read by a five-year-old, nobody was allowed to read it. As Coleman comments (Obscenity, Blasphemy and Sedition, 13–14), consistent application of such a test “would have excluded nearly all significant twentieth century literature” and much else. See also Day, Contraband and Controversy, 102, 149, 181. Google Scholar

57.Richard Nile, The Making of the Australian Literary Imagination(:UQP, 2002), 250. It is a pity that Nile intrudes an alien “not” into Garran’s key sentence about law concerning itself with morals, thus reversing his meaning and intent. Such are the gremlins that bedevil the publication process. Google Scholar

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