Ha! I see you have beaten me to it with this news, Robin. I thought it was priceless! The powers that be are trying very hard to wipe the egg off their faces. Here's part of the article:

Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said that the fact the Chaser team was arrested showed the security system worked. But he told an APEC news conference: "Whatever you think of the humour of The Chaser ... they were clearly not going to harm anybody in a physical way. They presumably were, as is the nature of their show, aiming to humiliate a lot of well-known people."

Chaser team member Chris Taylor told smh.com.au that the motorcade comprised "three cars, a couple of motorbikes, and a lot of crew".

"It was a motorcade trying to get into the exclusion zone," he said.

The motorcade is understood to have passed through at least one police checkpoint in the declared zone. The Chaser convoy had been dressed up to look like an official Canadian motorcade, with Canadian flags attached to the cars and "Canada" signs visible in the front windscreen.

"No particular reason we chose Canada," said Taylor. "We just thought they'd be a country who the cops wouldn't scrutinise too closely, and who feasibly would only have three cars in their motorcade - as opposed to the 20 or so gas guzzlers that Bush has brought with him."

And here's a link to the full story - Chaser bust 'proves security success'


But that's not all these guys got up to. Yesterday at a student protest, they dressed up as a police horse, referring to the fact that the police will not be able to use their horses for crowd control because we have an outbreak of equine flu. Here's a link to that one - Anti-war student protest gets a comic chaser


Then there's the "21 bum salute" protest, planned for tomorrow! - APEC protest groups out to make a naked stand


Ya gotta love the way we Aussies love to take the piss!