OZ magazine goes digital – and the party continues

The University of Wollongong will house the digital archive of counterculture magazine OZ, continuing the lit legend.
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When the editors of counterculture magazine Oz invited schoolchildren to edit its May 1970 issue, Richard Neville (right), Felix Dennis, centre, and Jim Anderson (left) were prosecuted over its sexually themed cartoons and articles. Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images

Earlier this month, the University of Wollongong announced that it would house the digital archive of OZ magazine, meaning the iconic counterculture magazine will be available to a new audience – some 50 years after it first hit the streets of Sydney on April Fool’s Day 1963.

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Michael Organ and Rebecca Daly
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Michael Organ is the Manager Repository Services at the University of Wollongong. Rebecca Daly is Manager of Scholarly Content at the University of Wollongong.