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O’Farrell’s crack-down on graffiti is a spray on stop-gap

A State of Mind / Thursday, 2 June 2011

There’s no doubt graffiti is a serious subject, but new and harsher penalties announced by Barry O’Farrell stretch the courts capacity and are unnecessarily linked to drivers licenses and demerit points, writes Mr Tiedt.

Daily Proposition: Daily Proposition: check out some legal street art

Crikey / Wednesday, 27 October 2010

If there ever was a real danger to street art, it’s years and miles away from the toothsome, cloistered inner-north drags of Melbourne. Robert Lukins finds some legal graffiti of real merit in Fitzroy.

Feeling anti-social in WA? Go directly to jail

Crikey / Greg Barns / Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Is heavy-handed Anti-Social Behaviours Orders (ASBO) legislation really needed in Western Australia? Particularly since they don’t work and mainly just force vulnerable people with mental illness into the prison system.

The Age in CBD graffiti tag shame

Crikey / Andrew Crook / Friday, 30 October 2009

Melbourne broadsheet The Age is facing prosecution after it illegally sprayed promotional stencils onto Melbourne’s streets, in defiance of Melbourne City Council guidelines.