Tim Vivian Rowan A Greer

Oz was an independently published, alternative/underground magazine associated with the international counterculture of the 1960s. Editor Richard Neville first published the magazine in Sydney in 1963, launching a parallel version of Oz in London from 1967. In both Australia and the UK, the creators of Oz were prosecuted on charges of obscenity. A 1963 charge was dealt with expeditiously when, upon the advice of a solicitor, Neville and Sydney co-editors Richard Walsh and Martin Sharp pleaded g…