THE High Court has emphatically struck down Tasmania’s anti-protest laws as unconstitutional — describing them as overly broad, vague, confusing and exhibiting “Pythonesque absurdity”.

Former Australian Greens leader Bob Brown and Tasmanian nurse Jessica Hoyt brought a challenge to the laws after being arrested during a protest in the Lapoinya Forest in North West Tasmania in 2016.

Billed by the Government as the toughest anti-protest laws in the country, the Workplaces (Protection from Protestors) Act was passed through Parliament by the Hodgman Government in July 2014 in a bid to stop protests disrupting forestry operations.

The laws carried fines of up to $250,000 and five years’ imprisonment.

But in a decision handed down in Canberra on Wednesday morning, the court ruled that the laws breached the implied freedom of political communication in"Photographic Journey: A Life at Blair" is a stunning time-lapse video by student Tolu Omokehinde, documenting a day in the life at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland. Omokehinde, now a senior, created the video as a goodbye to his fellow classmates and has been working on the project since last November.