"since it's now a law enforcement agency with access to metadata, and able to declare its own operations to be secret."
Now all it needs is it's own Gitmo and black bag squad
Border Force bureaucrats become super-spooks
Australia's long sleepwalk into a surveillance state continued last week, with the largely-uncontested passage of the suite of bills creating the Australian Border Force (ABF). As well as telecommunications metadata access, the legislation wrapped the Australian Border Force (ABF) in a protective coating of spook-power. Last …
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Monday 18th May 2015 01:16 GMT Trixr
I can tell you that most of the "bureaucrats" who got smashed into Border Farce with no choice during the departmental merge have little to no interest in metadata shenanigans, nor acting as keystone kops on the sly.
Well, except for those who enjoy wearing navy blue boiler suits (sorry, whatever they call their "tactical uniform" these days), tooling around in fast boats and training their German Shepherds. Those guys love it. They, however, are not the "bureaucrats". There are a few bureaucrats who would love to be a boiler suit guy - they're undoubtedly all over this like a rash. They are the minority.
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Monday 18th May 2015 12:41 GMT Chris G
Re: For a country started by criminals...
The British Government ' started' Australia but due to a lack of interested emigrants they started to transport criminals to provide a slave/labour force. Often it was something as small as stealing a loaf of bread that could get you a one way cattle class ticket down under.
Before the population were criminalised for the smallest reason to get people there, now it looks as though they may criminalise the population again for little reason. Perhaps they are going to bring back bondsmen to save paying wages.
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Monday 18th May 2015 19:10 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: For a country started by criminals...
"The British Government ' started' Australia but due to a lack of interested emigrants they started to transport criminals to provide a slave/labour force. "
A lot of us back in Blighty wish our ancestors HAD stolen a load of bread and been transported. As things were, they didn't (or more likely, didn't get caught), so we're stuck here, we've already got mass surveillance, an incompetent "border force", three times as many people on an island a thirtieth of the size, and we have to put up with shit weather.
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Monday 1st June 2015 11:45 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: For a country started by criminals...
No, started as a dumping ground with pretensions to being a reformatory. It was astonishingly successful in that. The first University was started 40 years after First Settlement. Once the idiot poms had realised the seasons were reverse of the old hell hole,and farms were made where there was soil, not sand, the place developed quickly as a free settler destination.
Now one of our pressing questions is whether we should stop all human imports or mess up the landscape with even more humans. Given the naturally wildly varying rainfall between decades, let alone years, ideology in the form of dogmatic vested interests versus the hair shirt brigade are trying to decide to grow or stabilise within water resources by who shouts loudest. (read owns the most pollies)
In the meantime, pity the bureaucrats who just want to go on being clerks etc instead of part of the new <censored>. Cant say that as it might offend someone.
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
