{"id":575567,"date":"2026-03-31T04:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/575567\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:10:08","slug":"paint-war-over-farnham-mural-taylors-short-memory-reform-vs-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/575567\/","title":{"rendered":"Paint war over Farnham mural, Taylor&#8217;s short memory, Reform vs AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The art of provocation: Queensland Police are cracking down on artworks that use the now-outlawed phrase \u201cfrom the river to the sea\u201d, spending their time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/mar\/28\/nordacious-james-hillier-removes-artworks-queensland-police-hate-speech-laws-ntwnfb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">calling artists to warn them<\/a> not to run afoul of the state\u2019s new hate speech laws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But what if you simply want to celebrate John Farnham\u2019s iconic 1998 duet with Olivia Newton-John, \u201cTwo Strong Hearts\u201d?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Street artist Scott Marsh painted a mural in Brisbane depicting Farnham, locks flowing free and surrounded by watermelons (a symbol linked to pro-Palestine causes by nature of the colours it shares with the Palestinian flag), alongside the offending song lyrics \u201criver to the sea\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The art of provocation: Queensland Police are cracking down on artworks that use the now-outlawed phrase \u201cfrom the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[256,39903,155074,449,458,459,64,63,460,134,273361,19601,63349,6899,130869,2111,4106,148995],"class_list":["post-575567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-ai","tag-air-canada","tag-angus-taylor","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-from-the-river-to-the-sea","tag-graffiti","tag-john-farnham","tag-palestine","tag-petrol-prices","tag-quebec","tag-queensland-police","tag-reform-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}