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Most of Australia was fine with this.
As an Australian, who has many issues with these surveillance laws, I'm also 100% behind our gun control.
Always find it amazing how strong the urge to authoritarianism is in Australia. You'd think we'd all be larrikins and chilled out on the beach inviting newcomers to the barbie. But no, we're apparently terrified of immigrants and love nothing more than the smack of firm leadership.
We really need to get more people sending letters or contacting their MPs to give them more data points of how normal people actually feel about these issues! I fear political apathy is a bit of a self-fulfilling cycle - the more people think talking to their MPs won't change anything (and don't bother), the less their views will be represented.
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Just to support your point: The govt. also decided to seize everyone's firearms in 1996.
only the usa compares freedom with firearms ownership. this is slightly offtopic here.
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As an Australian, who has many issues with these surveillance laws, I'm also 100% behind our gun control.
I'm an outsider that feels the same. I could never move to Australia due to its stances on privacy and censorship but the gun control is an attraction.
Congrats, you can now buy rifles and shotguns.
There was a recent case of a father who was rejected from 3 gun clubs because he was too shifty and yet the 4th accepted him and the cops didn't see any reason to reject him. He bought a rifle and shot both his teenage kids at his x-wife's house.
Also you just have to pickup the weekly papers to see cops are afraid of the rising gang violence and the amount of illegal guns that they are finding and being used.
But airsoft guns are illegal so i feel so much safer than countries like NZ that let you buy AR-15s /s
Apparently, this was overseen by the Department of Home Affairs. The recently appointed PM of Australia (Scott Morrison) used to be the Minister for Home Affairs. His new appointment to the role (Peter Dutton) was one of the primary instigators in the recent power exchange (he actually wanted the top job for himself, but lost the party vote). Considering the history of both of these men, I predict a grim history for…
I plan to write to a bunch of Labor MPs/Senators about this, hopefully they can be nudged towards sanity (as Stephen Conroy eventually was on his terrible idea of the internet filter years ago).
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only the usa compares freedom with firearms ownership. this is slightly offtopic here.
I made no such comparisons: I merely stated a fact to support the point re: Authoritarianism.
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Just to support your point: The govt. also decided to seize everyone's firearms in 1996.
only the usa compares freedom with firearms ownership. this is slightly offtopic here.
As a counterpoint, gun culture (sports and hunting) is really strong here in Finland. Removing people's rights to do what they want is infringing on freedom, and often for no real purpose.
In related news... * 1,464 Western Australian government officials used ‘Password123’ as their password. Cool, cool. - The Washington Post || https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/08/22/western...
These are the same people that want all Australians to move their health records online and made it manual opt-out. Amongst every other system uses old methods. The tax system doesn’t use 2FA.
At least the credit cards use a chip and PIN... oh wait, now on contactless payment.