Fifty years ago publishing house Penguin did something radical. It published a book - but it wasn't just any book.
In defiance of Australia's notorious and conservative censorship regime, it decided to secretly publish Philip Roth's, Portnoy's Complaint. What followed changed Australia's literary and cultural landscape forever.
The Drum's Ruby Cornish has been looking back at the day the book was published in 1970
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