Oz (magazine)

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 guilty. In two later trials, 1964 Australia and 1971 UK, the magazine's editors were acquitted on appeal, after initially being found guilty and sentenced to harsh jail terms. The Australian publication folded in 1969, while Neville's London co-editors Jim Anderson and, later, Felix Dennis, then Roger Hutchinson published the British Oz until 1973.