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Reference Type newspaper
Title State" powerless to undo ban on controversial film"
Author(s)Olivia Hill-Douglas
Section AGEE
Town Melbourne
State VIC
Country Australia
Publication Date 14-05-2002
Citation Date
Page Number 5
Comments State powerless to overturn the ban on french film " Baise- Moi" the government is bringing a whole new meaning to the term Censorship. ( By Melissa Kristina Priestley)
Synopsis State government cant overturn the ban the state government has inflicted as the rating given by the classification board was incorrect, which is leading to this film being pulled from independent cinemas around Australia. Lumiere was still showing the film on principal that no official warning had be delivered to the cinema. Coulter explains the dangerous precedent being sent for classification review of films in Australia.
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