> These new laws being introduced if used in the spirit they are intended could be good
We already know they won't. Here's [1] the Australian anti-terrorism Police arresting a young online journalist at his house, because he was asking probing questions to a politician that said politician did not like. Video of the incident clearly shows the Politician lied multiple times in his police statement (which is a crime).
Yet the anti-terrorism taskforce was used to arrest this person at his house.
We already know they won't. Here's [1] the Australian anti-terrorism Police arresting a young online journalist at his house, because he was asking probing questions to a politician that said politician did not like. Video of the incident clearly shows the Politician lied multiple times in his police statement (which is a crime).
Yet the anti-terrorism taskforce was used to arrest this person at his house.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXtq4a8829g