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Australia Plans More Spying on Citizens

Posted by michael on from the jumping-on-the-bandwagon dept.

sg_oneill writes "The Australian Electronic Frontiers foundation report that the Australian Government is looking at introducing changes to the Telecomunications Interception Act giving Government Agencies (NOT just police!) the power to intercept email, voice mail and SMS messages without a warrant. Considering the concurrent proposals to introduce legislation to allow banning of organisations suspected of terrorist links, am I the only one suspecting Australia is about to have a whole lot less political parties?" I think our most recent Australia spying story was about the Australian government spying to win elections.

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  1. Australia has gotten the government it deserves... by aquarian · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    ...actually, I don't believe that, but I see where it comes from.

    Australians have always been been politically apathetic, and apathetic in general. They're not civic minded people to begin with, plus anyone with ambition is quickly pulled down. Australians whine about everything, but no one wants to get involved. "Not me, not my job, mate." So they turn to government to solve all their problems, everything from keeping wages up and food prices down, to people driving too fast, to keeping the kids off drugs. Well, with that comes a price... and they're really paying it now.

    They're paying *for* it too. Something like 1 in 6 Australians is directly on a government payroll. Unemployment is high, and gaming the system of government handouts is a national sport. Half the country is working to support the whole other half. This is not good.