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Are restricted ratings on books in our children’s best
interests?
Family First did not apply for an interim ban on Ted Dawe’s Into the River, but its
national director, Bob McCoskrie, sees it as an opportunity to review how our
censorship laws can be better used to protect our children from inappropriate
and offensive material. Stricter censorship, he believes, is in our
children’s best interests.
Is he right? Are our children better off being unable to
access books that might offend or disturb them?
Talking with a secondary school teacher, a librarian and a
bookseller, the answer they give is a resounding ‘No’.
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to read Catherine Robertson's full article.
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Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
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