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Iconic Frederick McCubbin painting defaced in Woodside protest at Art Gallery of WA

A 37-year-old woman is in police custody after she allegedly spray-painted over an iconic Australian painting by Frederick McCubbin in a protest against Woodside Energy's $16.5 billion gas project in the Burrup Peninsula.

The woman, wearing a T-shirt with the slogan 'Disrupt Burrup Hub' allegedly spray-painted a stencil of the Woodside Energy symbol over the 1889 painting Down On His Luck at the Art Gallery of WA.

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