Graffiti Hurts - Australia in the Media

The issue of graffiti vandalism is a community issue and not just a government or industry one. Graffiti Hurts – Australia is well placed from a community perspective to engage the media with facts and figures at a national, state and local level. If your group, school or organisation has a graffiti vandalism issue that you would like help addressing in the media please feel free to contact us at the office or via email.

We will often be posting media items and events that Graffiti Hurts – Australia has been involved in, so please visit this page on the regular basis. If you are using the Graffiti Hurts program or projects and have some media clippings you would like to share with others via this site please send them into us at the office or via email.

Graffiti Hurts – Australia regularly provides information and undertakes interviews with media outlets across the country. From radio, television and print; Graffiti Hurts – Australia can provide information to educate the community on the issue of graffiti vandalism.

Below are some of the print articles that Graffiti Hurts – Australia has been quoted in:

NEWS
07.12.2009 RSL furious after graffiti vandals deface WWII statue
03.12.2009 'Graffiti boy'struck by suburban train
12.11.2009 Two teenagers, suspected to be graffiti vandals, arrested
12.11.2009 Police, council link to graffiti to clandestine drug deals
08.11.2009 Spray-can vandals face prison under crackdown
24.10.2009 New graffiti campaign to reclaim our public space
18.09.2009 Street thugs destroy crimefighter's home
09.09.2009 Anti-graffiti campaigners angered by offer of free lessons
19.08.2009 Graveyard graffiti attack "worst kind of vandalism"
17.08.2009 Neo-Nazi graffiti target NSW Government Minister
16.08.2009 New WA laws get tough on graffiti
30.07.2009 Alleged paint vandals nabbed
30.07.2009 Graffiti vandal sentenced to course in 'art'depreciation
29.07.2009 Mindless graffiti attack on shops
29.07.2009 Outrage over graffiti attack on Bulli Mine Memorial
24.07.2009 Tag vandals paint paradise point
23.07.2009 Frankston vandals to get the brush
22.07.2009 Alice Graffiti crackdown
21.07.2009 Etching attacks rife
21.07.2009 Vandals deface WWII heritage site
21.07.2009 A night of damage in Rowville
20.07.2009 Wandin junior footy club's vandal shock
20.07.2009 Database helps track serial graffers
17.07.2009 Anti-graffiti plan gaining momentum
17.07.2009 Vandals on tagging frenzy
15.07.2009 Graffiti nightmare in Niddrie
11.07.2009 Spray returned on dead-flat 'sculpture'
10.07.2009 Vandals roaming Glen Eira's streets
08.07.2009 Man charged over train vandalism
07.07.2009 Park not a graffiti campus
03.07.2009 Ambulance tagged by graffiti vandals
02.07.2009 NSW Police catch Central Coast gang in the act
01.07.2009 Is this how we treat our history?
30.06.2009 Vandals have nothing to say, so they scribble it
30.06.2009 Graffiti hits NSW Councils
29.06.2009 Coroner finding into two graffiti vandal deaths says agencies could do more
29.06.2009 NSW Rail clean up costs jump a hundred fold
25.06.2009 Inside the world of a graffiti gang
22.06.2009 Vandals paint the suburb blue
21.06.2009

Record Company-ignorant of laws, pays for vandalism.
Public to pay for clean up

19.06.2009 Residents won't let vandals take control
18.06.2009 AMF Crew jailed for UK graffiti attacks
17.06.2009 Australians jailed over graffiti
16.06.2009 Graffiti vandals arrested
16.06.2009 Knox Councillor's graffiti demand
16.06.2009 Maroondah Police get no joy on graffiti
12.06.2009 Vandals add to damage bill at Ringwood
10.06.2009 Vandalism canned in hills
09.06.2009 Graffiti vandals kick and hit dog with baseball bat
09.06.2009

Charges over attack on police dog

08.06.2009 Vandals without a licence
05.06.2009 Not art, Just vandalism say clubs
03.06.2009 Vandals attack memorial to veterans
29.05.2009 Brisbane man faces 85 graffiti charges
27.05.2009 Grafffiti victim paying the bill
26.05.2009 Grafffiti vandals being scrubbed out of Sunbury
24.05.2009 Police arrest 31 in teen gang crackdown
21.05.2009 Aussies charged over graffiti attacks in London
14.04.2009 Vandal's clean getaway
09.04.2009 Writing's on the wall in Sandringham

02.04.2009

Vandalism vandalised by taggers
27.03.2009 Fire attack youth arrested
21.03.2009 Maribyrnong man stabbed in the neck over graffiti

10.03.2009

Brunswick traders employ graffiti artists to fend off illegal tagging
06.02.2009 Adelaide train was hijacked by graffiti vandals
03.02.2009 Graffiti jail sentence too harsh, cafe owner says
03.02.2009 Rees applauds teen vandal's sentence
20.11.2008 Magazines are a vandal's brag book
18.11.2008 Vandals trashing our lives with graffiti scourge
20.11.2008 Magazines are a vandal's brag book
18.11.2008 Vandals trashing our lives with graffiti scourge
06.11.2008 Telstra joins Graffiti Hurts Australia to fight sub-station vandalism
27.10.2008 Imported street artist cops a spray
10.09.2008 Crackdown on graffiti planned with ban on spray cans
20.08.2008 Anti-graffiti activist infuriated by pro-spray demonstration
31.07.2008 Getting rid of graffiti
17.07.2008 Port Phillip Council Slammed for youth graffiti classes
08.07.2008 A line to be drawn
23.06.2008 National Trust considers heritage listing for graffiti

MEDIA RELEASES
01.04.2009 Take a stand for the Anzacs
26.10.2008 Graffiti on the rise
02.04.2008 Community called to protect war memorials