This sentence is fucking outrageous. The painting was back on display within a couple of hours. Both the protest & the sentence are symbolic actions, the difference being the protest was a nonviolent action in defence of life whereas this sentence is an act of violent repression.
🥫 BREAKING: 3 YEARS 8 MONTHS COMBINED IN PRISON FOR THROWING SOUP
⛓️ Phoebe and Anna have just been sentenced to 2 years and 20 months in prison respectively after throwing soup over the glass frame of Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers'.
🚔 Phoebe received a further 3 months for marching in the road for 20 minutes.
📣 ANNOUNCING: Tara Burnett for Cooper!
“I’m a teacher, unionist and, like many of us in Cooper, a renter.
I’m also proud and excited to be running in Cooper, with the chance of being the first trans MP in any Parliament in Australia.
If you want change, vote for it.”
This morning's re-count has reduced the Greens' lead to 33 votes but, with only a few postal votes to be counted, also confirmed the Greens' victory, defeating former Chief Minister Natasha Fyles. https://t.co/Y0k2Co1qms #ntvotes
👍 It's great to see the discussion in this @abcnews article calling for Australians pubs and clubs to stock Naloxone.
See article below featuring Dr Paul MacCartney from @cohealth_au and Prof Suzanne Nielson from @MonashAddiction Research Centre.
👉 https://t.co/HYtl6VJA4j
Tony Armstrong, Paul Kelly, Dave Hughes and Jane Harper are among the dozens of high-profile Australians standing with journalists from the newsrooms of The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Financial Review, Brisbane Times and WAToday, demanding quality jobs for quality journalism. We need your support, please share our message and sign the petition. https://t.co/pDrL3En20m
#donttorchjournalism #MEAAmedia
We welcome @JacintaAllanMP comments on drug checking. Victorian experts assisted in the development of a paper which details an optimal model. Drug checking is cheap; it works; it's a handbrake for people who have otherwise already decided to take drugs.
https://t.co/VjHkNE80p4
Dan Andrews really just spent nine years escalating funding to police and prisons then said let me just kill off public housing on my way out and bounce 💀
🎾 BREAKING: Just Stop Oil Disrupt @Wimbledon
🎉 “Once more, orange clouds hang over a British sporting event this summer—this time it’s ticker tape rather than paint dust, but it is an intrusion and will need sorting out.”
🚷 Sign up to take action at https://t.co/bLY1usEHyr