In June 2013, police armed with Stanley knives raided Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts in St Kilda, Melbourne, where they carefully removed sections of a work on display.
The work in question – Everything Is Fucked, by Melbourne artist Paul Yore – was part of a group exhibition inspired by the late Mike Brown, the only Australian artist successfully prosecuted for obscenity.
The material excised from Yore's work depicted children's faces pasted onto nude adult bodies, some engaged in sex acts, and was part of a larger work challenging ideas about sexual identity and commercialisation in society.
