My advice is that the Australian tech industry just got nuked from orbit, so come work in the USA. The pay is better, the work is more interesting and the tech companies actually have sway over policy here.
The bill seems to be a nightmare - it even says that the technical assistance request can be given orally. What the bloody ....?
To me, it reads like this - if you're a Nigerian developer working in Germany and refuse to do this for some software (after all, every software is "likely to be used" in Australia), you are still breaking the Australian law. But you need not be prosecutable if Germany does not have an extradition agreement with Australia. If you are an Australian anywhere in the world however, then refusing this makes you a criminal, probably later a fugitive. This is my understanding. Can someone confirm?
The courts of most nations would laugh out the notion of extraditing their own citizens to Australia for hosting a website and not giving the AU government a backdoor to it.
Maybe I'll just work on a farm instead of this technology madness.
I don't like the US shonkiness any more than anyone else. But these situations are not precisely equivalent, especially since this bill passed.
Six of one, half dozen of the other.
and yet
> Apple stared down the FBI in a mass murder case, because it was [legally] possible for them to do so.
So far we haven't seen the Australian government ignore its own laws so completely.
If a sickness/injury is bad enough to need to fly back to Australia, there's a pretty good chance you won't be allowed on a plane.
That's fine. You're ok with taking that chance, I'm not.
As far as the ATO is concerned, unless you discontinue both, you're considered an Australian resident for tax purposes.
Even though the US considers you a resident alien, the ATO requires you to at least look like you won't be coming back for >1 year.
After ~3 years the IRS considers me a resident for tax purposes. The ATO only cares about my income because they want to collect HECS payments.