Vale Richard Neville, Boy from Oz

The death of the man who once shocked the world with the notorious Oz magazine marks an end in the transformative generation of the 1960s.
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This week saw the passing of Sydney-born Richard Neville – Australian enfant terrible of the 1960s, editor of OZ magazine (published from 1963-73) and leading spokesperson for the counterculture. 

In looking at Neville’s life, both in regards to his writing and more importantly his activism and public eloquence, his impact on the counterculture movement is clear, and the times were indeed a-changing, as Bob Dylan proclaimed in 1963.

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Rebecca Daly & Michael Organ
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Rebecca Daly is Associate Director, Collections & Scholarly Communications,and Michael Organ is Manager ,Repository Services, University of Wollongong