The Trial Of Oz The Justice Game Analysis
The Trials of Oz, The Justice Game by Geoffrey Robertson.
The character is Richard Neville.
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They still send me Tharunka, the student newspaper of the Uni of New South Wales. I was its editor in 1963. It was confronting and radical then, and it still is today. Obviously, throughout my years at Oz, Tharunka’s influence was with me.
The theme of this edition is free speech. How ironic! Nearly forty years ago Geoffrey reminded me that “free speech was what the Oz trial was all about” and here it is again.
But free speech was not a defence for us to argue. Instead, a jury would decide whether our magazine was obscene or indecent? I admit it may have been shocking, even disgusting. But the prosecution said it was “intended to deprave and corrupt”. We disagreed. …show more content…
Like my kid’s CD’s - arguably obscene and intended to corrupt. Each time I hear this rubbish, I have to remind myself to respect their different views on things. No doubt my parents hated Bob Dylan.
Viv Berger, the creator of Rupert Bear, said “I wanted to shock your generation” and Geoffrey thought this trial “was a collision of cultural incomprehension”.
In my closing, I quoted Dylan’s words and held my hand out to the jury in a symbolic plea for their understanding and a reconciliation of our conflicting opinions about the magazine.
In hindsight, it was probably inevitable we would
The character is Richard Neville.
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They still send me Tharunka, the student newspaper of the Uni of New South Wales. I was its editor in 1963. It was confronting and radical then, and it still is today. Obviously, throughout my years at Oz, Tharunka’s influence was with me.
The theme of this edition is free speech. How ironic! Nearly forty years ago Geoffrey reminded me that “free speech was what the Oz trial was all about” and here it is again.
But free speech was not a defence for us to argue. Instead, a jury would decide whether our magazine was obscene or indecent? I admit it may have been shocking, even disgusting. But the prosecution said it was “intended to deprave and corrupt”. We disagreed. …show more content…
Like my kid’s CD’s - arguably obscene and intended to corrupt. Each time I hear this rubbish, I have to remind myself to respect their different views on things. No doubt my parents hated Bob Dylan.
Viv Berger, the creator of Rupert Bear, said “I wanted to shock your generation” and Geoffrey thought this trial “was a collision of cultural incomprehension”.
In my closing, I quoted Dylan’s words and held my hand out to the jury in a symbolic plea for their understanding and a reconciliation of our conflicting opinions about the magazine.
In hindsight, it was probably inevitable we would