text: #AgGag Victory in Australia!
  by Will Potter on September 26, 2014
  The Surveillance Devices Bill would have cracked down on undercover investigations—particularly those by animal rights groups—by criminalizing the publication of undercover video.
  [Photo by Jo-Anne McArthur, We Animals]
  The bill did not explicitly focus on slaughterhouses or factory farms, but Minister Gail Gago noted when it was introduced that animal activists were central to the debate.
  "The (Victorian) Government has been considering workable measures that can be introduced to give legitimate farming business protection against unlawful activism," a spokeswoman for Agriculture Minister Peter Walsh said.
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