Doctors launch High Court challenge against Border Force gag laws

By Nicole Hasham
Updated July 28 2016 - 5:10am, first published July 27 2016 - 12:15am
Doctors and health professionals at a Sydney protest last year. They stood with their hands over their mouths indicating they are being silenced by the new laws. Photo: Fiona Morris
Doctors and health professionals at a Sydney protest last year. They stood with their hands over their mouths indicating they are being silenced by the new laws. Photo: Fiona Morris

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.

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