snippetty-clips from the interwebs

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I love Australia. No constitutional right to life or freedom from persecution, but there is an implied constitutional right to do this:

33 Ms Pike proposes on 19 July 2008, while at Central Railway Station on the Pilgrim Waling Route, to:
(a) wear a giant condom costume and hand out condoms to people in the area;
(b) speak through a mega-phone and hand out leaflets to communicate her views on sexual health, contraception, abortion, homophobia, same-sex marriage, the funding of World Youth Day events and attacks on civil liberties;
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(d) hand out stickers bearing slogans.

34 Ms Pike also proposes to engage in the conduct outlined above (except, it seems, the wearing of the giant condom costume) later on 19 July 2008 at Moore Park.

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My workmate Ian, on the Federal Court of Australia’s decision to “back WYD activists’ right to annoy”.

Lucinda replied, quite poetically: “Never underestimate the importance to humanity of the freedom to wear a giant condom suit.”