Kathryn Mary Paterson (17 October 1962 – 20 September 1999) was the ninth

Chief Censor of New Zealand Censorship in New Zealand has been present since around 1850 and is currently managed by the Classification Office under the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993. Over the years, New Zealand has gone through many iterations o ...

and a Director of Australia's

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Biography

Paterson was raised in the sea-side town of

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, north of

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, the daughter of June, a teacher, and Phil Paterson, a pharmacist. Paterson obtained an honours degree in psychology from

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in 1991. Between 1984 and 1993, she was a senior researcher at the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal (a predecessor of the

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), a member of the Australian Film Censorship Board and manager of the information unit of the

Office of Film and Literature Classification (Australia) The Australian Classification Board (ACB or CB) is an Australian government statutory body responsible for the classification and censorship of films, video games and publications for exhibition, sale or hire in Australia. The ACB was establis ...

. Paterson became

in 1994. She was

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's ninth Chief Censor, and the first appointed under the new

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. This Act gave the

jurisdiction to classify a broader range of publications than was possessed by her predecessor as Chief Censor,

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, whose jurisdiction was limited to the classification of films for public exhibition. When she was appointed Chief Censor, the opposition women's affairs spokesperson

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MP raised fears that Paterson would import Australian "

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" into

. In December 1998, Paterson returned to

to become director of the Australian

, a position she held until her death of cancer ten months later on 20 September 1999. In New Zealand, Paterson was succeeded as Chief Censor by her deputy, Bill Hastings.

References

* McLennan, C. "Chief censor shrugs off 'macho' claims". Evening Post. 18 April 1994. * Obituary. Evening Post. 7 October 1999. *

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