On reading more, I don't really see how this particular legislation played a mayor role in things like the ABC raid?

I doubt this "anti-encryption" legislation is what allows the police to stomp into a journalist office and take things like cameras as the ABC warrant allowed.

I mean, clearly a law supposed to help combat terrorism is gravely misapplied when used to search for a journalists source, but the real problem is that journalism seems to lack pretty basic protections at all in Australia.