The When, Where, Why and How of the Melbourne Partisan Magazine
The When, Where, Why and How of The Melbourne Partisan Magazine JOHN TIMLIN Fitzroy The Melbourne Partisan, three issues, April-November, 1965. Editors: Laurie Clancy and John Timlin. Contributors, Administration and Helpers: Anonymous, Jim Cairns MHR, Graham Cantieni, Jack Clancy, Laurie Clancy, Manning Clark, Richard N. Coe, Alan Cole, Robert Corcoran, Bruce Dawe, Hume Dow, Beatrice Faust, Raimond Gaita, Fr. J. Golden SJ, Geoff Goode, John Harris, Michael Johnson, Evan Jones, “Mick” Jordan, James Jupp, Tom Kramer, Sam Lipski, Jim Lisle, John Lloyd, Senator Frank McManus, Humphrey McQueen, Brian Matthews, Don Miller, Rex Mortimer, Bishop J. S. Moyes, Hank Nelson, Barry Oakley, Neil Phillips, Neil Phillipson, Rev. David Pope, John Powell, Mrs. L. Rabl, Sir Herbert Read, Virginia Sikorskis Geoff Sharp, John Timlin, Brian Toohey, Tom Truman, Ian Turner, Virginia Sikorskis, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, W.C. Wentworth, E.L. Wheelwright. My association as co-publisher and co-editor of The Melbourne Partisan began after Laurie Clancy in the Melbourne University paper, Farrago, attempted to lay waste the censorship policies of the Menzies and Bolte governments. He wrote reviews under the nom de plume Horace A. Bridgfunt to discuss the many books then banned in Australia. Paperbacks for review were dissected in Hawaii and separate pages mailed to Melbourne in dozens of envelopes. This beat the Customs Department but was too slow so I offered Laurie a solution. Working on the Melbourne waterfront repairing scales and aided by a knowledgeable wharfie mate, a denizen of that notorious Commo front, the International Bookshop, I could sneak through the gates with a few banned volumes.
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