Protesters launch high court challenge to Queensland ban on ‘from the river to the sea’

Pro-Palestine protesters have filed a high court challenge against Queensland's ban on the slogan 'from the river to the sea' and the phrase 'globalise the intifada.' Per The Guardian, the lawsuit on behalf of seven protesters alleges the law is a direct, content-based restriction that unconstitutionally targets their movement's speech. Queensland's government enacted the ban in response to December's Bondi terrorist attack.

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