Ted Dawe's Into the River Ban Lifted,goes back on sale in New Zealand

 

Censors in New Zealand have lifted the ban on the award-winning teen novel Into the River, imposed last month.

Ted Dawe's coming-of-age tale was removed from circulation after lobby group Family First complained about its sex and drug content.

But censors said that, after review, it believed it contained "a number of important issues and problems that many young teenagers will have to confront".

It was New Zealand's first such ban since legislation introduced in 1993.