Elbows Up, Australia! Cautionary tales about book bans from your friends in Canada

Anita Brooks Kirkland

Vol. 23 No. 2 (2025), Canadian Landscapes

Vol. 23 No. 2 (2025)

Elbows Up, Australia! Cautionary tales about book bans from your friends in Canada

Canadian Landscapes

Published 2025-09-10

Anita Brooks Kirkland⁺⁻

Anita Brooks Kirkland

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Censorship
Book banning
Canada

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Elbows Up, Australia! Cautionary tales about book bans from your friends in Canada. (2025). Synergy, 23(2). http://www.slav.vic.edu.au/index.php/Synergy/article/view/896

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Our Canadian correspondent, Anita Brooks Kirkland, describes the alarming progress, since her 2023 Synergy article, of book banning in Canada. Brooks Kirkland discusses the relationship of this issue to the staffing issues facing by school libraries, developments in the USA, and our need in Australia to be forewarned and wary.

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