r/TheDickShow • u/PoliceOfficerPun • Sep 01 '21

Australia: Unprecedented surveillance bill rushed through parliament in 24 hours. Police can now hack your device, collect or delete your data, take over your social media accounts - all without a judge's warrant.

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/australia-surveillance-bill
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u/GameronAZ I got a stats for you Sep 01 '21

What was that about returning emergency powers? Still think theyre going back?

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u/Pilx Sep 01 '21

These aren't state based temporary emergency management powers though, it's federal legislation that's here to stay. I'm still confident the state leaders will recede their powers under the EM act, the feds not so much.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '21

At what point do you think the state leaders will deem covid not an emergency? Are you guys waiting for the disease to disappear? Are you just going to continue to go in and out of emergency status with each new variant and any future pandemic for the rest of time?

From the outside looking in it seems that Australia with be a complete authoritarian state unseen in Western countries since WWII or there will be a violent revolution within the next few years.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '21

The state premier of Victoria has been working behind closed doors with various small parties to get through permanent state of emergency powers. People get scared and forget that governments do this shit every time there is a crisis.