Australia's Front Line
It has recently been revealed, that a secret unit of the Australian military’s elite Special Air Service (SAS) have been deployed on “dozens” of illegal spying operations inside a number of African countries over the past year. The missions, including in Zimbabwe, Kenya and Nigeria, have been “assessing border controls, exploring landing sites for possible
The Attorney-General’s Department has released figures showing federal and state agencies accessed telecommunications data and internet logs more than 250,000 times during criminal and revenue investigations in 2010-11. Greens senator Scott Ludlam has called for tighter controls. ”We’ve already taken some pretty dangerous steps in this country towards the surveillance state,” Senator Ludlam told a