The song's aim is to reduce to absurdity calls to ban books and films following well-publicised acts of violence.
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In 1934 he published his second novel, Upsurge, which became the first novel to be banned by the-then Commonwealth Book Censorship Board and the first to be prosecuted by police in Australia.