Posted on 04/28/2023 11:04:30 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Joana Partyk declined to give full access to her electronic devices after they were seized by police in a raid in February
An artist who defaced one of Australia’s most famous paintings during a gas company protest will fight a counter-terrorism charge over access to her electronic devices, labelling it “state-sanctioned overreach”.
Joana Veronika Partyka, 37, pleaded not guilty on Monday in the Perth magistrates court to one count of failing to obey a data access order after she declined to cooperate with authorities.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Her lawyer, Zarah Burgess, said Partyka would mount a reasonable excuse defence during the one-day trial scheduled for 11 September in the same court.
The Australian Greens communication adviser’s home was raided in late February by counter-terrorism police, who seized her mobile phone, laptop and other belongings.
Partyka was ordered to provide access to the electronic devices by early March, which she declined to do.
“We have always maintained that Ms Partyka had a reasonable excuse to not give police full access to her devices,” Burgess said.
“Particularly as they contain sensitive organisational information relating to the political party for which Ms Partyka works, as well as personal data of that party’s members, donors and supporters.”
The raid came about a month after Partyka pleaded guilty to criminally damaging Frederick McCubbin’s work Down on His Luck at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
During the protest in January, Partyka spray painted a Woodside Energy logo on to a clear plastic sheet protecting the oil on canvas work painted in 1889.
She was fined $2,637 and ordered to pay the art gallery $4,821.08 in compensation.
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Ummm...
I get your joke... Really.
But you know some people will not, and think that is the real deal.
So just so everyone knows, that picture shown here is Whistler’s Mother, by James Whistler. He was American and this portrait stands unmolested in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
I loved the Mr. Bean Movies!...................
The real terrorist attacker..............
She should serve time.
The UNMOLESTED Original........................
I remember when you could mail a letter for three cents!.....................
He was an interesting painter:
You still can. You just have to add more stamps :-)
I have a big box of very old stamps, and I’ve mailed letters with them. US postage doesn’t ‘expire’.
The problem is that as time goes by, there’s not enough room on the envelope for all the old stamps it takes.
He seems to be an Impressionista.................
And pay for the restoration.
But seriously, this is ordinary vandalism.
He seems to have gone more in that direction as he developed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_McCubbin#/media/File:Princes_Bridge_Frederick_McCubbin.jpg
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The other patrons at these museums should just start beating the living snot out of these savages. We’re into witness such an act that’s exactly what I’d do.
I’d pound them till the cops pulled me off.
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