Revealed – Australia’s own PRISM facility

Australia has never had anything like the 4th Amendment. It's common knowledge amongst people who care that active monitoring of phones has been going on for decades, no-one pretends that it's only foreigners who are of interest. Email and web metadata wouldn't surprise me either, in fact it would surprise me if they didn't collect it.

On the bright side, the fact that it's not maintained in deep secrecy seems to mean it's governed better. Operating under a shroud of complete denial is probably the enemy of good process, oversight and management.

Anyway, the only thing that's being "revealed" here is that apparently they need a new DC.

It appears the current Australian government has plans for DSD for the next 5 years due to "the G20 Summit and the Commonwealth Games": http://www.pm.gov.au/press-office/2013-defence-white-paper-r...

They're hiring: http://www.dsd.gov.au/careers/