High court to hear bid to overturn New South Wales hidden camera laws

Exclusive: Animal rights activists say laws stopping them filming in slaughterhouses breach their right to freedom of political communication

Animal rights activists have launched a landmark high court bid to overturn laws suppressing secretly recorded vision of cruelty and abuse in slaughterhouses, arguing that they breach Australia's implied right to freedom of political communication.

The case will champion openness and transparency in the agriculture sector and push back against so-called ag-gag laws" stopping activists using hidden cameras to highlight mistreatment.