Don't be fooled by the narrative on the amendment. The truth is that such interception is normal, in Australia, in other countries. AA is two things. 1st, the

Don't be fooled by the narrative on the amendment. The truth is that such interception is normal, in Australia, in other countries. AA is two things. 1st, the government there legalizing an already existing practise to cover their own liability in the event that the grey practise is eventually exposed. Especially amid the current public awareness of privacy. Next, more importantly, AA is to get around recent security patches that rendered previous vectors now impossible to use, since these collections were often done covertly. It's law compensating for where a much relied on covert method no longer works. Thus, the 11th hour urgency. The cover story that it is this huge privacy catastophe is just more noise, to distract from the big story; how interceptions like this have been going on for more than a decade.