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." Maybe, in general, people in Australia should be more inclined to listen to arguments than "Liberals are good for the economy", "Greens are extremists" and make some effort to figure out what they really get and vote for. It's on the same level than "my" consultants inconsulting me that Microsoft is standard and Oracle a tiny fringe company nobody bothers to work with. And Linux is a "strange thing" anyway. Just avoid it. Regards Peter