oh, we have done a lot worse than that -------------- I have listened with jaw on the ground to the idiot brigade who have argued that Oz is a free country as I told them that freedom was being eroded away at alarming rates.
go back not all that long and social security used to spy on people to see if people were sleeping with each other - claiming single entitlements but, were living with someone
"The Australian security services have long been undertaking surveillance operations on the citizens and residents of Australia as well.
Through rapid technology advances, the Australian security apparatus has grown to an Orwellian scale. This has not necessarily been at the design of any elected government but something the Australian bureaucracy was forthright in promoting."
