printing it in Australia. He then sent a copy to the State Attorney-General, Chief Secretary and Police Commissioner in every Australian state, "with letters inviting them to prosecute him" if they thought he was breaking the laws of their state. No Australian state took action, except Victoria whose "pugnacious" and "at times ... reactionary" Attorney-General, Arthur Rylah, decided to prosecute Sheppard, not for publishing an obscene article but for contravening a law which prohibited the reproduction of trial evidence by unauthorised persons. However, due to the publicity the case was attracting, Victoria dropped the case and the Federal government ended the banning of this book. 1n 1966 Sheppard announced his plan to publish James Baldwin's Another Country, another book then banned as a "prohibited import" in Australia, and that he would again import pages by air mail and then assemble the pages and print the book. He did this and the Australian ban was lifted. Sheppard's publications of The Trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Another Country in Australia attracted great publicity and have been described as causes célèbres. He avoided fines and gaol time but lost money when cheaper foreign copies were immediately and legally imported from abroad once the bans had been lifted. A proposal suggested by Senator Ken Anderson to introduce uniform book censorship in all of the nine Australian states was seen by Sheppard as "even less liberal" than the previous laws. A number of books would remain banned in Australia until the early 1970s when the federal Minister of Customs and Excise, Don Chipp, largely ended censorship of printed material in the country. Final years In the 1960s and 1970s Sheppard continued to engage in "methodically organized interventions" during the Greek Regime of the Colonels and was one of the foundation members and the chairman of the Australian Committee for the Restoration of Democracy in Greece (1967–74). He was a regular at Sydney demonstrations against the Vietnam War. In 1963, alongside Walter Stone, Dal Stivens and Jill Hellyer, he co-founded the Australian Society of Authors (ASA). Bibliography Books written by A. W. Sheppard Britain in Greece: An Exposé of How Greece Ceased to be the Home of Liberty and Became a Police State, and Particularly of the Part Played in this by British Officialdom and British Policy: A Study in International Interference, London: League for Democracy in Greece, 1947. An Australian Officer in Greece: An