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500 combat helmets on Sydney Harbour: This global artist-activist’s call for peace

WAtoday Linda Morris

25 Sept 2026 10:40 AEST Summary

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Circular Quay is the striking podium for a new work by Ai Weiwei, his response to a “world filled with crises”.

**Not from this story.** A library photograph of shipping port container crane, used to illustrate it. Container ship at Thamesport suvodeb / flickr, CC BY

**Not from this story.** A library photograph of shipping port container crane, used to illustrate it. Container ship at Thamesport suvodeb / flickr, CC BY

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Sentiment +0.1 hostilefavourable Sourcing 71 unattributednamed sources Mood 54.8 sorrowjoyful

5 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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Brisbane Times 500 combat helmets on Sydney Harbour: This global artist-activist’s call for peace Niral 6 political 0 The Age 500 combat helmets on Sydney Harbour: This global artist-activist’s call for peace Niral 6 political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald 500 combat helmets on Sydney Harbour: This global artist-activist’s call for peace Niral 6 political 0