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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 3 June 2009 of The Canberra Times est. 1926 The Canberra Times
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* Contents derived from the 2009 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Put Book Industry in Hands of Readers, single work column
The Productivity Commission has issued a draft report recommending that the Government relax the current provisions of the Copyright Act 1968 governing the importation of books into Australia. The final report is due to be handed to the Federal Government in June 2009.
(p. 18)
Dangerous to Tamper with Rules on Book Imports, Tony Kevin , single work column

Tony Kevin believes it is wrong to dismantle the current Australian Government's restrictions on the parallel importation of books into Australia. He argues that in an internationally unprotected Australian book industry, Australian authors would find it hard to 'break through the Anglo-American publishing world's general distainful view that little new writing of value could come out of Australia...'

(p. 19)

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