Australian judge rejects prisoner’s human rights challenge to Vegemite ban

A prisoner has lost his challenge to an Australian state’s ban on inmates eating Vegemite after he argued in court that withholding the polarizing yeast-based spread breached his human right to “enjoy his culture as an Australian.” A Supreme Court of Victoria state judge ruled on Monday that the ban is justified in meeting prison authorities’ goals of removing illicit drugs and alcohol from the prison system. Andre McKechnie, 55, is serving a life sentence for murder.

He took his battle for the salty, sticky, black-brown byproduct of brewing beer to the court last year. He argued being refused Vegemite breached the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act.

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