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Australia is half-fucked already, and will be completely fucked when the current opposition get back into Government (they're the ones who initiated the half-fucked status when they were in government, unfortunately with no resistance from the opposition at the time).

Raid warrants are already being signed off based on the tiny window into an IP address' life provided by legislated metadata retention. And no further actual police work is done on backgrounding the persons or households involved before choosing to suspend their rights.



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