A climate change protester has been charged after allegedly spray-painting three letters on a path outside the ACT courts, then squirting out tomato sauce to complete her graffitied message.
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Sarah "Daisy" Edwards is described on the Extinction Rebellion ACT Facebook page as a registered nurse and "passionate planet protector".
Her passion allegedly spilled onto the pavement on Wednesday afternoon, following the remand in custody of seven other environmental activists during the previous 24 hours or so.
Edwards is accused of spraying the letters "DUT" on the concrete a short distance from the ACT Children's Court entrance.
The can used to turn the pavement pink is said to have stopped working as she tried to write "DUTY OF CARE", prompting the missive's completion with a common condiment.
Several police officers walked the short distance from City Police Station to the scene, where Edwards stood delivering a verbal sermon to a man who was filming her with a mobile phone.
She was subsequently arrested and escorted to the station after sitting down on the road beside the pavement.
After a night in the police cells, Edwards appeared in the ACT Magistrates Court on Thursday morning to face a fresh charge of defacing public property.
Magistrate Beth Campbell told Edwards to take a seat as the woman was brought into the courtroom, remarking: "You know the drill by now."
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Ms Campbell said Edwards was already facing another charge of defacing public property, as well as one of trespassing.
She told Edwards the latest allegation could be put over until next Tuesday, when the woman was already listed for sentence over the defacing last week of the John Gorton Building.
Prosecutor Bwalya Chifuntwe suggested bail be dispensed with, as it had already been with Edwards' other matters.
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Ms Campbell therefore released Edwards upon the protester giving her word that she would come back to court next Tuesday.
Extinction Rebellion members have been a fixture of the ACT Magistrates Court in recent weeks, having engaged in a series of protests to voice their anger at what they perceive to be the inaction of the federal government on climate change.
The most public display of displeasure came on Tuesday, when a pram was set alight at Parliament House and walls were graffitied both there and at The Lodge with the words "climate duty of care".
Seven of the eight people charged over those events are currently behind bars on remand at the Alexander Maconochie Centre.
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