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248 Spring 2022

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Brinagh Hassett

Brinagh Hassett is a PhD candidate at Deakin University researching the effect of retrospective sanitisation on discourses in children’s fiction.

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22 July 201629 July 2016

Cleansing the narrative: on censorship in schools

Brinagh Hassett

There has been a surge of public outrage following Merlino’s interference with the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority’s (VCAA) processes – but the degree of alarm is quite remarkable considering how comfortable Australia has been with state censorship in times gone by.