I'm curious as to what it is about Australia that makes these obscenely invasive schemes tenable to the public. It's clear that surveillance agencies in representative governments all over the world want and pursue these kinds of capabilities, but almost none are brazen enough to advocate for them openly. Even fewer can do so and reasonably expect a nonzero chance of success.
Australia generally ignores most of what happens in parliament feeling they have other things todo which are better as it normally feels like we have elected five year olds to run our country.
