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What's going on with Australia these days? I feel like every time I read about some wildly excessive overreach around privacy, it's coming out of Australia. Granted, I'm American and we have our own problems regarding privacy, but Australia seems markedly more open and and aggressive in their approach.

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Australia has always been something of a nanny state.

Unfortunately most of the last decade we've had a Liberal (Conservative) government and a fairly centrist opposition that tries to minimise their attack surface lest Murdochs Newscorp find a new way to attack them in the media.

Unfortunately this leads to things like this, where it is politically infeasible to vote against it with cries of 'think of the children'.

Basically media forcing the Labor party (historically pro privacy and workers rights) to shift more right to avoid losing votes.

They are simply realizing their true potential as a prison island.

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