Editing Pepper spray (section)

==Civilian use advocates==
In June 2002, West Australian resident Rob Hall was convicted for using a canister of pepper spray to break up an altercation between two guests at his home in Midland. He was sentenced to a good behavior bond and granted a spent conviction order, which he appealed to the Supreme Court. Justice Christine Wheeler ruled in his favor, thereby legalizing pepper spray in the state on a case-by-case basis for those who are able to show a reasonable excuse.<ref name="Anne Calverley 2003"/><ref>''Hall v Collins'' [2003] WASCA 74 (4 April 2003).</ref>

On 14 March 2012, a person dressed entirely in black entered the public gallery of the New South Wales Legislative Council and launched a paper plane into the air in the form of a petition to Police Minister Mike Gallacher calling on the government to allow civilians to carry capsicum spray.<ref>{{cite news |last=Tovey |first=Josephine |url=http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/flight-of-the-macquarie-street-ninja-20120315-1v7ho.html |title=Flight of the MacQuarie Street Ninja |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=March 15, 2012 |access-date=December 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924210609/http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/flight-of-the-macquarie-street-ninja-20120315-1v7ho.html |archive-date=September 24, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>