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Australian judge rejects prisoner's human rights challenge to Vegemite ban
🇺🇸 United States · Society · 13 h ago
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There’s no human right to Vegemite, court tells Australian prisoner who wanted ban overturned
A convicted killer fails to overturn a ban on Vegemite in Victoria's prisons after court hears it can be used to make alcohol and impair sniffer dogs from detecting contraband.
Prisoner argues Vegemite ban contributed to vitamin deficiency McKechnie had initially testified that the lack of Vegemite had contributed to his thiamine deficiency.
Andre McKechnie, 55, who is serving a life sentence for murder, took his battle for the salty, sticky, black-brown byproduct of brewing beer to the Supreme Court of the state of Victoria last year.
He had argued being refused Vegemite denied him his right under the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act to "enjoy his culture as an Australian in the community with other persons of Australian background," court documents showed.
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