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THE AUSTRALIAN
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Fix this textTHE AUSTRALIAN OUTLINE. DECEMBER, 1933
Fix this textA Scientific Expedition to Central Australia
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Fix this textBOOKS AUTHORS. MUSIC . ART. STORIES & toe THEATRE
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Fix this textNo. 1.
Fix this textDECEMBER, 1933.
Fix this textPRICE 6d.
Fix this textThe Truth About
Fix this textthe Censor
Fix this text“THE OUTLINE’S” ENQUIRY
Fix this textINTO STUPID SYSTEM
Fix this textNo. 1: Film-Censorship.
Fix this textCENSORSHIP of all kinds in Aus
Fix this texttralia has reached such a condition
Fix this textof arrogance and stupidity that it can
Fix this textbe compared only, in effect, to the holi
Fix this textday week-ends of the more demented
Fix this textRoman Emperors.
Fix this textRecognising that this is the year of grace,
Fix this text1933 —that is to say, 370 years after the birth
Fix this textof Shakespeare, and 244 years after the death
Fix this textof Judge Jeffreys—“ The Outline” feels that
Fix this textit is about time the whole stupid system was
Fix this textdispassionately examined on its record of facts.
Fix this textStarting with the film-censors this month,
Fix this text“The Outline” proposes to examine every form
Fix this textof censorship as practised in the Common
Fix this textwealth. it does this because it is convinced
Fix this textthat the Australian people are neither fools
Fix this textnor children, and will submit to the brow
Fix this textbeating of their mental processes only so long
Fix this textas the successive examples of official idiocy
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Fix this text“The Outline” intends to see that they are
Fix this textnot forgotten. And, possibly, the cumulative
Fix this texteffect of such a catalogue will arouse the
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Fix this textthe censors far enough over the Blue Moun
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Fix this textThe film-censors at present operating in the
Fix this textCommonwealth are perhaps the most objec
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Fix this textichole pompous tribe.
Fix this text“The Outline” denies, as a foundation, the
Fix this textright of any bureacracy to meddle with a
Fix this texttune for which the public pays. The Aus
Fix this texttralian people support the Australian screen,
Fix this textand it should be their privilege—and theirs
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Fix this textMore than this, the people are capable of
Fix this textregulating their entertainment far more effic
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Fix this textof moral policemen. The mere presence of
Fix this texta “censer” is in itself an official statement
Fix this text(Continued on Page 2.)
Fix this textColossus and the Critic.
Fix this textLOOK INSIDE FOR
Fix this textBoswell’s Fools - by Norman Lindsay
Fix this textA Note on Cannibal Cookery -
Fix this textby W. B. Dailey
Fix this textThe Post-Edwardian Novel -
Fix this textby Brian Fitzpatrick
Fix this textThe Word that No One Uses.
Fix this textAn Australian Anthology.
Fix this textSinclair Lewis Ma Ives a Gesture -
Fix this textby F. A. Malcolm
Fix this textSculpture and Democracy -
Fix this textby “Observer”
Fix this textA Scientific Expedition to Central
Fix this textAustralia - - by S. L. Larnach
Fix this textA Tour Through the New Books.
Fix this textAn Eye for an Eye -
Fix this textby Raymond Lindsay
Fix this textShea of Sunnybrook Press.
Fix this textFuneral March of Old Man Jazz.
Fix this textVoyages of a Bookworm.
Fix this textThe ‘Outline’s’ Literary Competitions.
Fix this textIn Defence of
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Fix this textGEORGE FINEY
Fix this textI THINK the History of Caricature be-
Fix this textgan when we arose from all fours,
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Fix this textour end, leaving our other two supports
Fix this textdangling awkwardly at our sides. Not
Fix this textone of us knows what to do with these
Fix this textawkward appendages. All humanity’s
Fix this texttrials and troubles are the direct out
Fix this textcome of the uses of these agents of
Fix this textthought that all other animals have
Fix this textbeen wise enough to use as Nature in
Fix this texttended them, for supporting the “Body
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Fix this textIt is still a mystery to me why Nature, in
Fix this textone of her gloriously mad moments, refrained
Fix this textfrom forcing the growth of the arms back to
Fix this textthe surface level similar to the way limbs grow
Fix this textdown from Moreton Bay Fig trees, till they
Fix this texttrail in the dirt; we could then have worn
Fix this textthem out trailing them along the ground, or
Fix this textthrust them into the air like gaunt sticks, per
Fix this texthaps walked on them till our legs grew in
Fix this textproportion and brought us back to earth again
Fix this texton all fours. However. Nature has seen fit
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Fix this textleft us to our own fate, walking caricatures
Fix this textfor the Terms of our Unnatural Lives, with
Fix this textone of our ends stuck on the ground, and our
Fix this textother end jammed in a hat. It may be argued
Fix this textthat the human body, when physically fit
Fix this textand perfectly formed, is a superb and glorious
Fix this textcreation; there are thousands of these athletic
Fix this texttypes in gymnasiums, and health centres all
Fix this textover the world, and although these “forms”
Fix this textmay be to the ordinary observer divinely pro
Fix this textportioned, the trained caricaturist, with his
Fix this textkeen sense of observation, with the penetrating
Fix this textpower that only the real caricaturist possesses,
Fix this textcan pick the weak points in any form, no
Fix this textmatter how near perfect, and see and sense
Fix this textthere the bloat and slackness of the greatest
Fix this textof all living caricaturists, “Old Age”. It mat
Fix this textters not how magnificently you see the human
Fix this textfigure, it is soon destroyed and becomes a cari
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Fix this textCaricature has a powerful influence on por
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Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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