The Wire

Ebony Jacobs was fired by anti-war sentiment when she went along to a march on Anzac Day last year. The young Adelaide artist took along a puppet which represented peace – to her anyway. Unfortunately to police at the march the puppet’s bared genitalia represented obscenity. She was charged and over a year later the case came to court this week. Her lawyer George Mancini says the case was a test of the right to freedom of expression both artistically and politically and also a test of whether the day (Anzac Day) provided a special context in which something could perhaps be interpreted as having a different meaning. The magistrate left Ebony and her lawyer with a quick moral victory when he dismissed the case.