Australians ‘complacent’ to rapid growth in digital surveillance

Re:Australians ‘complacent’ to rapid growth in digital surve... by waddlesworth on Monday October 11, 2021 @09:26PM (#28835002)

I absolutely agree with you, although I'm a little more optimistic.

2PP has Labor winning the next election. Some key figures in the Liberal party (Frydenberg, Hunt) have some tough campaigns ahead of them after the massive bias against their home state that's been on display.

Then there's the whole friendlyjordies thing, which I've heard commentary about in circles where I would have never expected it.

I don't know if the usual election lies will cut it this time.

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Re:Australians ‘complacent’ to rapid growth in digital surve... by 0xy on Monday October 11, 2021 @10:14PM (#28835329)

Why would Labor winning change anything? Labor have voted for every single piece of surveillance legislation tendered over the last decade. The AA Bill, metadata retention and more. They voted for it all. They are vehement supporters of surveillance state policies and have voted for it -- repeatedly.

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Re:Australians ‘complacent’ to rapid growth in digital surve... by brokenmachine on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @11:46PM (#28848018)

At least they pretended to require amendments. But then they caved and gave in anyway, WTF.

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Re:Australians ‘complacent’ to rapid growth in digital surve... by nickcox on Monday October 11, 2021 @10:08PM (#28835294)

> I don't know if the usual election lies will cut it this time.

People say that every time though and they always do.

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Re:Australians ‘complacent’ to rapid growth in digital surve... by softveda on Monday October 11, 2021 @10:33PM (#28835466)

At best it will be a LNP or Labor minority govt. Very hard for Labor to win. Even if they did this issue will get the least priority amongst all things that Australia faces, like economic recovery, climate change, China, anti corruption body etc.

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