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Graeme Blundell stars as an innocent young market researcher assigned to report on sex: He’d rather have agriculture. He looks into women’s unmentionables; talks to Edna Everage, strippers, transvestites and gang bangers; considers nudity, homosexuality and prostitution. He probes Australian morality, looks at censorship – but, love plans a surprise. Barry Humphries makes a guest appearance. Malcolm Muggeridge spouts on pornography in literature. Russell Morris sings – as he undergoes a striptease. In King’s Cross, Carlotta speaks movingly about her transsexual nature, and a beautiful ex prostitute bares her soul.

Confronting, titillating and controversial, the film censor demanded cuts (shown by Bunyip supers and bleeps). As never before, you can see what shocked the authorities (refer deleted scenes). The Naked Bunyip, a cult film of 1970, helped revive Australian feature production and inspire classic ocker comedies like The Adventures of Barry McKenzie and Alvin Purple (with Graeme Blundell). This ‘lost’ gem of Australian cinema can finally be seen in all its glory.