OZschwitz doctors launch High Court challenge against Border Force gag laws
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Subject: OZschwitz doctors launch High Court challenge against Border Force gag laws Tue Jul 26, 2016 9:27 pm
Australian doctors will launch a High Court challenge to controversial laws they say gag them from speaking out over child abuse and other threats to asylum seekers in detention centres.
Lawyers for the doctors in the case, due to be filed on Wednesday, will argue that the court should declare invalid laws that threaten detention centre staff with two years' jail for disclosing information about conditions they observe behind the wire.