Editing Counterculture (section)

===Australia===

[[File:Oz-31-cover.jpg|thumb|1971 edition of the Australian [[underground press]] magazine ''[[Oz (magazine)|Oz]]'']]

Australia's countercultural trend followed the one burgeoning in the US, and to a lesser extent than the one in Great Britain. Political scandals in the country, such as the [[disappearance of Harold Holt]], and the [[1975 Australian constitutional crisis|1975 constitutional crisis]], as well as Australia's involvement in [[Vietnam War]], led to a disillusionment or disengagement with political figures and the government. Large protests were held in the country's most populated cities such as [[Sydney]] and [[Melbourne]], one prominent march was held in Sydney in 1971 on [[George Street, Sydney|George Street]]. The photographer [[Roger Scott (photographer)|Roger Scott]], who captured the protest in front of the [[Queen Victoria Building]], remarked: "I knew I could make a point with my camera. It was exciting. The old conservative world was ending and a new Australia was beginning. The demonstration was almost silent. The atmosphere was electric. The protesters were committed to making their presence felt … It was clear they wanted to show the government that they were mighty unhappy".<ref>{{cite web|title=Vietnam march George street|work=[[Art Gallery of New South Wales]]|date=2007|url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/114.1989/|access-date=31 January 2018}}</ref>

Political upheaval made its way into art in the country: film, music and literature were shaped by the ongoing changes both within the country, the Southern Hemisphere and the rest of the world. Bands such as The Master's Apprentices, [[The Pink Finks]] and Normie Rowe & The Playboys, along with Sydney's [[The Easybeats]], [[Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs]] and [[The Missing Links (band)|The Missing Links]] began to emerge in the 1960s.

One of Australia's most noted literary voices of the counter-culture movement was [[Frank Moorhouse]], whose collection of short stories, ''Futility and Other Animals'', was first published in [[Sydney]] 1969.<ref name="Rickard">{{cite book|first=John|last=Rickard|title=Australia: A Cultural History|pages=224|year=2017|publisher=[[Monash University Publishing]]|isbn=978-1-921867-60-6}}</ref> Its "discontinuous narrative" was said to reflect the "ambience of the counter-culture".<ref name="Rickard" /> [[Helen Garner]]'s ''[[Monkey Grip (novel)|Monkey Grip]]'' (1977), released eight years later, is considered a classic example of the contemporary Australian novel, and captured the thriving countercultural movement in Melbourne's inner-city in the mid 1970s, specifically [[open relationships]] and recreational drug use.<ref>{{cite book|title=Monkey grip / Helen Garner|via=[[National Library of Australia]]|access-date=2 April 2018|url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/7045527|isbn=9781742282138|last1=Garner|first1=Helen|date=2008-03-03|publisher=Penguin Random House Australia }}</ref><ref name="PostColonial">{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English|pages=564|publisher=[[Routledge]]|year=2004|isbn=978-1-134468-48-5}}</ref> Years later, Garner revealed it was strongly autobiographical and based on her own diaries.<ref name="PostColonial" /> Additionally, from the 1960s, [[surf culture]] took rise in Australia given the abundance of beaches in the country, and this was reflected in art, from bands such as [[The Atlantics]] and novels like ''[[Puberty Blues (novel)|Puberty Blues]]'' as well as the [[Puberty Blues (film)|film of the same name]].