I'm not sure I'd call it "unfair". Australia already has in the public domain books by authors who died up until 1956. All that's happening is that this is now "frozen", while the rest of the world which is on a "life + 70" copyright law will "gain" those books in our public domain, year by year, until by 2026 we end up with the same books. After that, we'll be "in step" once again.
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