Peter Ross wrote:
From: "Davor Balder" <dbalder@ozemail.com.au>
I believe there are some relatively small political forces that would be greatly affected by this issue (the Pirate Party?). There could be other similar groups. The Pirate Party has unfortunate name, in my opinion.
The Greens, amongst others?
http://scott-ludlam.greensmps.org.au/category/issues-tags/data-retention
"The Australian Greens, the Liberal Democratic Party and Senator Nick Xenophon have teamed up to hold an event in Parliament House during the next Senate sitting week to step up the campaign against the Government’s proposed mandatory data retention legislation."
Media Watch told me that the Greens were the only party to vote against the bill that lets ASIO trump right-to-know and gaol journalists for a decade if they're politically inconvenient. Apparently now if you want to publish a story (and that includes bloggers &c), you have to ring ASIO first and ask if it's OK with them.