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No, not reasonable, but it's the will of the Australian people and we should respect their sovereignty.

This was not the will of the Australian people.

There was a "consultation period" and 99.7% of the submissions were against it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/a3j466/assistanc... https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dowpZ_Xtr1N_DgkHJN8i...

Put it this way: it was passed into law with bipartisan support by both democratically elected legislative chambers of the Commonwealth of Australia.

All it took to convince the representatives and senators was for a submission from the Australian Federal Police that it was necessary to investigate threats over Christmas.

I really wish at least one of our representatives cared about being soft on privacy.

I honestly can’t tell if this is an honest comment, or a dark ironic reference to Trump, Brexit or current Italian politics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

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