Australian Censorship
- Artist/Author/Producer: Polyester Books. A. Shulgin -
Pikhal
- Confronting Bodies: Customs, Melbourne, Australia
- Dates of action: May 1993
- Location:
Melbourne, Australia
- Description of the Art Work
- All books and magazines which according to the classification board
in Canberra are deemed to encourage or promote illegal drug usage.
- Description of incident
- Customs have seized shipments from such book distributors as
Homestead and Last Gasp,
and seized any books or videos that have anything to do with drugs.
After a few months we're informed that the books and videos can either be
destroyed
or they can be returned to the distributor with their supervision.
in the U.S. Of course we have to pay the return freight.
- Results of incident
- We're very careful when ordering books of this ilk from the U.S.
Source: Paul Elliott (Fitzroy, VIC, Australia)
record no: s35
