Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number made available online
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#2We know Albanese is a loyal Qantas Frequent Flyer member [0], so this may be related to the recent Qantas breach -
“ Hackers release Qantas customers' data on dark web. The stolen data included some customers' names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, and frequent flyer numbers.“ [1]
0: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/28/anthony-alb...
1:https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-11/hackers-release-qanta...
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#4Albo Yet to Receive Single Phone Call After Number Leaked Online
~ https://theshovel.com.au/2025/10/14/albo-yet-to-receive-sing...
A crestfallen Anthony Albanese says he hasn’t received a single phone call, text, or even a cheeky meme, after his personal phone number was leaked online this week.
“I honestly thought I’d be inundated,” the PM said at a press conference today, staring at his phone’s empty notifications screen. “Not even a scam text pretending to be Australia Post”.
Albanese said he’d even logged into a website that requires two factor identification, just so he would receive at least one text message. “But they ended up sending me a code to my email address instead. My phone’s still empty”.Re: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number made available online
#5Australia still requires metadata collection and storage for all telcos and ISPs.
Remember the phrase "metadata isn't data"?
If it's your metadata, collection and storage is mandated. If it's their metadata, they send in the police to put a stop to it.
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#6I feel the fundamental problem is the idea of phone number being secret or private in the first place. It is just very weak form of access control, I believe we can do much better these days.
Re: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number made available online
#7Australia still requires metadata collection and storage for all telcos and ISPs. Remember the phrase "metadata isn't data"? If it's your metadata, collection and storage is mandated. If it's their metadata, they send in the police to put a stop to it.
I think this is sort of a broad-spectrum feeling among many of the elite, government, etc. They want to know everything about you, but how dare you question anything about them. I'm not talking about flight tracking, I think that's a different subject, but the lead attitude around information is a serious problem.
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#8Albo Yet to Receive Single Phone Call After Number Leaked Online ~ https://theshovel.com.au/2025/10/14/albo-yet-to-receive-sing... A crestfallen Anthony Albanese says he hasn’t received a single phone call, text, or even a cheeky meme, after his personal phone number was leaked online this week. “I honestly thought I’d be inundated,” the PM said at a press conference today, staring at his phone’s empty notifications…
That's hilarious, satire aside, would you call him?
I thought it would be very interesting if the public could submit questions to the Prime Minister during PMQ, and not just rely on their elected official. Make sure they are reasonable and professional, and ask him.
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#9This reminds me of that simpson meme where basically you can just call upon Australia's prime minister
Re: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number made available online
#10Albo Yet to Receive Single Phone Call After Number Leaked Online ~ https://theshovel.com.au/2025/10/14/albo-yet-to-receive-sing... A crestfallen Anthony Albanese says he hasn’t received a single phone call, text, or even a cheeky meme, after his personal phone number was leaked online this week. “I honestly thought I’d be inundated,” the PM said at a press conference today, staring at his phone’s empty notifications…
That's hilarious, satire aside, would you call him? I thought it would be very interesting if the public could submit questions to the Prime Minister during PMQ, and not just rely on their elected official. Make sure they are reasonable and professional, and ask him.
I wouldn't call him, not unless he was swimming in my dam. No one deserves the out of band hassle.
He was on the Australian TV Q+A which had questions submitted by the general public, and it's not all that hard to get meaningful questions put forward in Parliamentary Question Time .. which is better for all as it goes on the record via Hansard.
* https://www.abc.net.au/about/media-centre/press-releases/q-a...
* https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard
* House Question Time, 9 October 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU9mf2sMfe8