Story: Censorship

More links and websites

• Censorship compliance

  This section of the Department of Internal Affairs’ website provides information about censorship in New Zealand, including how to complain about objectionable material.

• Censorship in New Zealand: information for students

  This website for students provides information about the Office of Film and Literature Classification and censorship in New Zealand.

• Heresy, sedition, obscenity: the book challenged

  A page on the University of Otago website looks at books that were included in a 2009 exhibition about publications that have been restricted or banned in New Zealand.

• Office of Film and Literature Classification

  The Office of Film and Literature Classification is the government body that classifies, restricts and bans publications, including films.

More suggestions and sources

• Christoffel, Paul. Censored: a short history of censorship in New Zealand. Wellington: Department of Internal Affairs, 1989.

• Stuart, Perry. Indecent publications: control in New Zealand. Wellington: Government Printer, 1980.

• Watson, Chris, and Roy Shukar. In the public good?: censorship in New Zealand. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 1998.