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An award-winning young adult book has come under fire for its ‘sexual imagery'. A Lilydale High parent says that, with over 100 swear words, Phillip Gwynne's Deadly Unna? (Penguin) is an inappropriate choice for Victoria's classrooms.
An award-winning young adult book has come under fire for its ‘sexual imagery'. A Lilydale High parent says that, with over 100 swear words, Phillip Gwynne's Deadly Unna? (Penguin) is an inappropriate choice for Victoria's classrooms.
An award-winning young adult book has come under fire for its ‘sexual imagery'. A Lilydale High parent says that, with over 100 swear words, Phillip Gwynne's Deadly Unna? (Penguin) is an inappropriate choice for Victoria's classrooms. Victorian shadow education minister Martin Dixon agreed that the book was inappropriate, less than a fortnight after attacking another school's study of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Random House) However, a Victorian Education Department spokeswoman defended Deadly Unna?. ‘It's important that students are exposed to contemporary literature that portrays a broad range of themes, ideas and experiences,' she said.
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