Thank you for posting, I will read through it, I'm just not a lawfag.
I do know that one of the best Intel gathering devices today, is the mobile phone.
Under the umbrella of SIGINT, it combines HUMINT, ELINT and COMMINT all into a package that a sheila can tuck into her bra or a bloke into top pocket of his shirt.
Not only was the National Broadband Network a great big white elephant, but it gets rid of telephone lines also. So now, everyone has to have a mobile phone, funny that.
You used to have physically tap telephone lines, but not mobile phones.
AU gov can (without challenge) get ISP/Telco records whenever they want sitting on their public serpent arses at Russell Offices.
People wonder why the board hasn't budged.
Unless we have civil war (not advocating) we are fucked. So, at the moment, things are pretty impotent.
I consider a large majority of the government as one of the most divisive forces in the country.
If that's wrong, I don't see any of them proving the people otherwise.