'Bushfire brandalism': Australian artists replace bus shelter ads with political posters

Dozens of posters replaced advertising in January, in Australia’s ‘largest unsanctioned outdoor art exhibition’

• In pictures: the political posters taking over bus shelters

It’s amazing what you can get away with in a hi-vis vest.

On Thursday 30 January, pedestrians in some suburbs of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane would have walked straight past activist artists (vandals, some critics might call them) removing advertising from bus shelters and inserting artwork protesting the Morrison government and its handling of Australia’s bushfire crisis.

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