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Fire at UK publisher 'a terrorist act'
Three men have been arrested under the UK's terrorism laws following a fire at the London offices of publisher Gibson Square Books. Gibson Square is to publish the controversial The Jewel of the ...
Osama Bin Laden, poet
An American academic journal is set to publish poems written by infmous Al Quaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.
Authors secure rights to pulped CUP book
The authors of the book Alms for Jihad have regained rights to the book, which was pulped and put out of print by Cambridge University Press (CUP) after a Saudi sheik filed suit for libel in the ...
In brief
Spielberg buys film rights to ‘The Unknown Terrorist'Steven Spielberg's Dreamworks Studio has reportedly paid ‘a massive sum' to secure the film rights to Richard Flanagan's novel The Unkn...
ASA rejects A-G's latest classification guidelines
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has rejected the recent proposal by the Federal Attorney-General, Philip Ruddock, to change classification guidelines to include ‘works that advocate terr...
Hicks won't profit from book: Attorney-General
Federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock (pictured) yesterday flagged that the federal government would introduce retrospective legislation to prevent Australian Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks from ...
Ruddock refuses to budge on sedition, but may allow researchers access to banned books
Federal Attorney-general Philip Ruddock has rejected the key recommendation of the Australian Law Reform Commission's report into the Government's 2005 Anti-terrorism Act--that the term ‘seditio...
Protest at removal of books from university library
Several organisations representing authors and librarians have issued a joint statement protesting the forced removal of two books from the University of Melbourne's library. Join the Caravan (A...
ASA joins ‘book banning’ protests
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has joined the chorus of voices protesting plans by the Attorney-general, Philip Ruddock, to tighten the classification regime for books.In a letter sent to the...
APA objects to A-G's book censorship plans
Australian Publishers Association (APA) CEO Maree McCaskill has written to Attorney-general Philip Ruddock and to all state attorneys-general expressing ‘grave concern' about plans to tighten re...
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