Deadline: 26/02/2010 (Full Article)
2 Feb 2010, Senator Bob Brown, Leader, Australian Greens, moved a Senate motion for debate on the involvement and deployment of Australian troops in Afghanistan. The motion for debate was voted out by the Labor and Liberal. (Full Article)
Senator Ludlam, 2 Feb 2010 the Australian Law Reform Commission had objected to the Attorney-General’s case that it was impossible to destroy all records of data trawled - as planned - under the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment Bill 2009 (Full Article)
Senator Ludlam, 2 Feb 2010, the Attorney-General claims that network protection duties vary for each network and therefore cannot be defined. Ludlam argued as “the purpose of this bill is to define network protection duties and give them effect, ..we believe ...parameters should be set”. . One of these was to define “network protection duties to remove any remaining ambiguity”. (Full Article)
In Dec 2009 the he Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act, ran out, and now the Office of the Attorney General makes it a fixed part of Australian secret police practice - to allow interception, copying, recording and disclosure of all electronic communications of all persons for “disciplinary action” purpose. (Full Article)
The government idea for network managers and ISPs to act as government spies - empowered by the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment Bill 2009 was revealed as illegal. (Full Article)
The theory was the Bill was to protect data and infrastructure from disruption or malicious access by a criminal element. (Full Article)
Senator Guy Barnett (Tasmania), Australian Liberal Party argued the bill did not” (Full Article)
Concerns about the possible abuse of the term ‘network protection duties’, were on the mind of Senator Xenophon (South Australia), who wanted separation of: (Full Article)
Temporary anti-terrorism “privacy” law extended to allow more intrusive powers in Australia (Full Article)
Parliament did not take the advice of the Privacy Commissioner or the Law Council to clarify terms in a bill which extended intrusive powers of governments and corporation into private communications and computers. (Full Article)
Labor and Liberals joined forces to oppose amendments by the Greens and independents. (Full Article)