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A light-hearted mural depicting Tony Abbott in a wedding dress and Cardinal George Pell in rainbow undies, in celebration of the Yes marriage equality survey result, has been vandalised just hours after being completed. The mural, by popular street artist Scott Marsh, was painted on the Botany View Hotel in Newtown, in Sydney's inner-west. It features the two marriage equality opponents in an embarrassing scene; Abbott in a wedding dress and tiara, with a pink sash reading 'bride to be', while drinking a bottle of Penfolds Grange, next to a ripped and muscled Pell in rainbow underwear. The mural is titled 'the happy ending'.

It's not Marsh's first mural of the Member for Warringah, with the artist famously daubing a pair of Abbotts getting married -- one in a suit, the other in a wedding dress. His previous work has included a mural of two Kanye Wests kissing, which later went viral online.

Marsh finished his latest mural on Wednesday, but by later that evening, it had already allegedly been vandalised. Marsh shared another photo on Wednesday night, just five hours after first posting a picture of the completed mural, showing Pell's face had been covered over with a huge splatter of paint.

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