So they're spying on all our overseas communications?
The interesting thing is what it reveals about government monitoring. They can only regulate Australian companies and they want not only circuits monitored, but they also want over the top apps (e.g. email, VoIP) monitored that are hosted by the Australian companies because these are typically only carried over domestic links, and hence difficult to tap given the current laws and infrastructure (it would require a lot of taps and collection equipment). The obvious thing missing is over the top apps that are provided by overseas companies (e.g. an email service hosted by an ISP overseas). They're obviously spying on all our overseas communications sessions (including the encrypted stuff) because they're not asking to have those sessions logged by your ISP here and they'll want it because they're asking for the equivalent domestic services to be logged.
They're obviously up to something because whenever they get asked what they're spying on regarding overseas communications by our citizens and what all the weasel words and phrases in the legislation means, you get an equally bamboozling response that is trying to obfuscate the truth.
From the Snowden leaks we know the US and their partners (of which Australia is one) have broken or compromised the common use encryption schemes.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
