Australia Council fails to force self-insemination artist to pay security on legal costs

Casey Jenkins is suing national arts body for withdrawing funding for performance exhibition Immaculate in 2020

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The Australia Council has failed in an attempt to force an artist to make a payment on its sizeable legal costs, in a two-year court battle over the national arts funding body dropping its support for a performance documenting self-insemination.

Judicial registrar Amelia Edwards ruled in the federal court on Wednesday that the application for a costs order against the performance artist Casey Jenkins should be dismissed.

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