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set new standards in that area for Australia - and he knew publishing. But the editorial content of the magazine was, in its earliest and finest days, totally under the control of Richard Walsh and a team which contained many of the great editorial talents of Australia. Guest editors included
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magazine was a perfect fit for its time. The magazine first appeared in Sydney in 1968, produced by Gareth Powell, an eccentric, entrepreneurial British publisher who knew, above anything else, how to employ talented people and give them the freedom to work.
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in 1974. She was also responsible for employing David Leigh as art director and brought award winning writers on board. She was revered as a ground breaker with coverlines during the days of Number 96 which featured actress
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from early 1972 until her untimely death in July 1976 and was the one who organised Australia's first ever nude male centrefold. The star of this Centrefold long before Cleo was launched was
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in the late 1960s. It is considered to have played an important role in raising awareness of the status of women, and established new standards in terms of content, design and photography.
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to choose the photographs used and to decide how they should be displayed. No other magazine in Australia at that time allowed that sort of involvement by the creative staff.
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The only person who was kept well away from the creative process was the publisher and owner, Gareth Powell. He knew printing - and
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for 8 months and from 1977 and 1984 the magazine was edited by Robin Ingram who was responsible for recruiting
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A major influence on the style of the magazine was the photographic and design team that had started with
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were among the best that Australia had produced, and they were given the opportunity with both
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quickly came to reflect a changing Australia that had been radicalised by the sixties.
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to act as guest editor, a role he performed from May 1980 for just under a year.
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was a monthly magazine that was first published by Gareth Powell Publishing in
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as Dorrie Evans in evening gown and the line "Charity is not all Balls.
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David Leigh, who won several international graphic design awards, was
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stood for nothing, and was chosen by the magazine's first editor,
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Thesis Collection, pp. 400–429. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
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Magazine to Sungravure in 1972, Maggie Makeig formerly of
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From novelist to essayist: the Charmian Clift phenomenon
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Index

POL magazine
Australia
Australian National Portrait Gallery
Canberra
Gareth Powell
Richard Walsh
Chance International
Rennie Ellis
Jacqueline Mitelman
Lewis Morley
Grant Mudford
Robyn Stacey
Wesley Stacey
Greg Weight
Germaine Greer
Richard Neville
Paul du Feu
Germaine Greer
Richard Neville
Pat McDonald
Don Dunstan



POL: Portrait of a Generation
"Re:collection | POL"
"Son of Betty brings out the stars"
Photographer Wesley Stacy website
"POL"
From novelist to essayist: the Charmian Clift phenomenon

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