But rather than battling with the people doing the illegal graffiti, the Geelong community is trying to give these artists a place to work where they can contribute to the city's cultural life.
Geelong, in the south of the state of Victoria, has been hit by the growing problem of illegal tagging.
So now a fifty-year-old, rundown power station is being used as a canvas for graffiti artists to work on.
Ian Ballis is the curator of the Powerhouse project
"Amazing talent - serious art. I get artists in here and they say I couldn't paint that and yet they've thrown it out of a spray can."
Ballis had the idea of using the derelict six-storey building in Geelong for many years before it was finally approved.
He says he saw it as a place where local and international street artists could paint legally.
"So they understand they've got ownership to that space forever so they can come in every day, week, month or year and change that, as often as they want, which they can't get with a public space."
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