REASONS FOR JUDGMENTS The Chief Justice C.J. Macrossan These are three appeals by Order to Review against orders made by The Literature Board of Review prohibiting the distribution in Queensland of certain literature published periodically for that the said literature is in the opinion of the Board objeotionable. The first appeal concerns five publications called "Real Love", “Romance Story", "Real Story", "Real Romances" and "Love Experiences", respectively. The second appeal concerns a publication called "Darling Romance" and the third appeal concerns publications called "Popular Romance" and "New Romances", respectively. The grounds on which the Order to Review was granted in each case are identical. They are as follows:"(1) That the opinion of the Board upon which the said Order is based namely that all and each of the said publioations is objectionable within the meaning of 'The Objectionable Literature Act of 1954' is wrong in law and in fact in that whether or not regard is had tc the nature of each one of the said publications, the persons, classes of persons and age :roups to or amongst whom each or any of the said publications is or is intended to be or is likely to be distributed none of the said publications nor any part of any of them:(i) unduly emphasises matters of sex, horror, crime, cruelty or violence; (ii) is blasphemous, indecent, obscene or likely to be injurious to morality; (iii) is likely to encourage depravity, public dis-order or any indictable offence; (iv) is otherwise calculated to injure the citizens of this State; (v) has any tendency to deprave or corrupt any the persons, classes of persons or age groups aforesaid That the opinion of the Board upon which the said Order is based namely that all and each of the said publications is objectionable within the meanin of the said Act is arbitrary capricious and unreasonable and/or has been formed upon a consideration of extraneous and irrelevant matters. That the said Order is ultra vires in its purported application to any part number or series of the said publications which had not been published at the time the said Order was made, and to any which the Board had not considered as Copyright 2013 Blaq Books
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