Today, the High Court determined that the Australian Military Court was similarly constitutionally invalid.
From this ABC article:
"As an interim measure, the Government will give appropriate priority to legislation that temporarily re-introduces the pre-2007 military justice machinery for trials by court martial and defence force magistrates."
But that cannot happen until Parliament resumes in over a week's time.
Constitutional law expert George Williams says that in the interim, the military is left without a justice system.
"Its decisions have been found to be void and until that gap is filled, there simply is no tribunal or the like that can decide these matters," he said.
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