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Article: NSW: Magazine uses naked girl photo to protest Henson treatment
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- AAP General News (Australia)
- Article date:
- July 6, 2008
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AAP General News (Australia)
07-06-2008
NSW: Magazine uses naked girl photo to protest Henson treatment
SYDNEY, July 6 AAP - A taxpayer-funded magazine has used a picture of a naked six-year-old
girl on the cover of its July edition in protest against the treatment of artist Bill
Henson.
Angered by the "hysteria" over Henson's pictures of a 13-year-old girl, the magazine
also has a number of highly sexualised images inside, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper says.
Art Monthly editor Maurice O'Riordan says he hopes the July edition will restore some
"dignity to the debate", the paper says.
It says an angry NSW Premier Morris Iemma yesterday threatened to withdraw the magazine's
funding.
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